Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates

This is a list of templates available for greeting new users. Anyone may use these templates for greeting a new user on their Talk page. For a display of the various basic designs, see Welcome template table.

General
Use these for a user who recently registered a username. All of the templates below can be customized with an additional message, a picture of a plate of cookies, a colored border, icons, or a different opening text.

standard buttons + text

 * {{subst:Welcome}} → standard 3-button template: Learn, Get Help, Volunteer; manual signing required.
 * {{subst:Welcome-autosign}} → standard with autosign (redirect: {{subst:Wela}} )

text only

 * {{subst:W-basic}} → 7 bulleted links with brief intro: (Welcome; thanks for contribs; hope you stay: here are some links); with autosign.
 * {{subst:W-cust}} → basic: 6 bullet links, plus Help me; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Welcome-hd}} → basic 6, plus links to WP:Help Desk and WP:Questions; manual signing required.
 * {{subst:W-shout}} → extroverted!! 6-link message with bold! advice!! with autosign.
 * {{subst:W-informal}} → 3 paragraphs, no bullets, 10 in-line wikilinks, plus tip-of-the-day box; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Welcome-retro}} → a classic version: basic 6 bullets, plus links to Adventure, Questions, and task center; manual signing required.

text + image

 * {{subst:Welcome cookie}} ~ → regular welcome with a plate of cookies (optional arg: 'notalk'); manual signing required.
 * {{subst:Welcome-personal}} ~ → redirect; manual signing required.
 * {{subst:Welcome-back}} ~ → similar to Welcome cookie, but intended for someone who is back after not editing for some time
 * {{subst:Welcome kitten}} → regular, with kitten; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Welcome-citation}} ~ → regular, encourages citing sources; manual signing required.
 * {{subst:Welcome award}} ~ → regular, with first service award; manual signing required.
 * {{subst:Welcome-t}} ~ → links to Teahouse, with cup of tea image; manual signing required.
 * {{subst:W-FAQ}} → FAQ for newcomers, with fruit bowl image; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Mentor welcome}} For mentors (a growth team feature) to give to their mentees. Plate of cookies images.
 * {{subst:Mentor welcome-autosign}} Same as above, but with autosign.

short

 * {{subst:W-short}} → concise; won't overwhelm; with autosign.
 * {{subst:W-link}} → shortest greeting, links to Welcome Committee's greetings page; with autosign.

graphical

 * {{subst:W-graphical}} → graphical menu format, similar to Template:WelcomeMenu, to ease transition from the graphic-heavy web; with autosign.
 * {{subst:W-graphic}} → similar, with more powerful colours and changes in text; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Welcome screen}} → 11 bullets in 3 sections; blue header bar; rounded rectangular border; alias: W-screen; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Welcomeg}} → Standard, with a host of links — includes auto-sig by welcomer; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Welcomeh}} → same, but includes a section header; with autosign.
 * {{subst:WelcomeMenu}} → updated version of Welcomeg with different color scheme; with autosign.
 * {{subst:WelcomeUser}} → similar, but adds tutorials and guide videos.
 * {{subst:Welcomec}} → older version of Welcomeg with different color scheme; manual signing required.
 * {{subst:W-all}} → short—only 14 or 15 lines—with automatic heading and autosign. Very warm and does not overwhelm.
 * → tabular with icons: 10 policy links, 10 do's/don'ts, 8 To-do links; text top & bottom; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Welcome to Wikipedia}}    Redirects: Wtw, Greet.
 * {{subst:WelcomeVisual}} → links to policies, guidelines, and visually helpful information; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Welcome emoji}} → quite colourful with emoji next to policy links, visually appealing; manual signing required.
 * {{subst:Welcome user column}} → loosely based on the French welcome template Modèle:Bienvenue nouveau; manual signing required.
 * {{subst:Welcoming}} → simple, with tips and links; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Welcommons}} → a Commons-style template with autosign.

Specialized

 * {{subst:Welcome-vandalism-fighter}} → for users who have helped fight vandalism in their first contribution(s).
 * {{subst:Welcome-belated}} → for users who have been editing for a while but never received a standardized welcome message. Includes plate of cookies image; includes auto-sig.
 * {{subst:Welcomemenu-belated}} → a more elaborate version than the above
 * {{subst:First article|article}} → for new users whose first article has been deleted or Afd'd; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Firstarticleshort|article}} → simplified version.
 * {{subst:Userfied-welcome|article}} → for users whose pages have been userfied.
 * {{subst:welcometest}} ~ → first edit appears to be a test edit.
 * {{subst:Welcome-suboptimal}} → for users whose edits were intended to be constructive, but had to be reverted for some reason; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Welcome-unconstructive}} → for users who have vandalized a page or had their first edits reverted as unconstructive; with autosign.
 * {{subst:Welcome0}} → for new users who have created their user page, but have not yet contributed elsewhere.
 * {{subst:welcomenpov}} ~ → for someone whose initial efforts do not adhere to WP:NPOV.
 * {{subst:Welcomespam}} ~ → with additional discussion of anti-spamming policies, use when a new user's initial contributions seem to consist solely of spamming external links.
 * {{subst:Welcome-copyright}} ~ → with additional discussion of copyright policies, use when a new user's initial contributions seem to consist solely of inserting a block of copyrighted text.
 * {{subst:Welcomeauto}} ~ → for users who have created an autobiography.
 * {{subst:Welcome-COI}} ~ → for users whose edits suggest they may have a conflict of interest.
 * {{subst:Welcome unref blp}} → for users who have created an unreferenced BLP
 * {{subst:Welcomeunsourced}} ~ → for users who have made edits adding unreferenced information to articles.
 * {{subst:Welcome non-latin}} ~ → similar to {{subst:welcome-retro}}, with a section for users with a non-Latin alphabet username, and 25 links to translated versions of this message.
 * {{subst:Welcomelaws}} ~ → A welcome message with a focus on following Wikipedia rules as well as real-world laws; manual signing required.
 * {{subst:Welcome-ql}} ~ → Welcome message contains decent number of links (WIP, but functional and serves its purposes)
 * {{subst:Mentor welcome}} ~ Welcome template for mentors in the Growth Team to give to their mentees
 * {{subst:Mentor welcome-autosign}} invokes this template but includes your signature.

Students and teachers

 * {{subst:Welcome student|article}} ~ → for editors who seem to be students editing Wikipedia as part of their course assignment
 * {{subst:Welcome teacher|article}} ~ → for editors who seem to be course instructors having their students edit Wikipedia as part of some assignment
 * {{subst:First school article|Article}} ~ → problematic new school article for editors who seem to be students.

Unregistered users
All of these encourage creating an account, unless otherwise noted.
 * Legend: Q = includes a link to WP:Questions; T = WP:Tea house; A = WP:Adventure;  H = Helpme; C = WP:Task Center.

Neutral or positive
For any anon:


 * Welcome-unregistered → standard, 4 button message: Create acct, Learn editing, Tea house, Task Center (alias: Welcome-anon).
 * Welcome-unregistered-retro → a classic version, with 4 bulletized policy links (incl. C), and 4 benefits of registering. (alias: Welcome-anon-retro)
 * Welcome-unregistered-belated, → mashup: 12 bullets in 2 sections: top is like Welcome-belated, bottom like Welcome-unregistered. Plate of cookies image. (redirects to: Welcome-belated; alias: Welcome-anon-belated)
 * W-graphical-anon → 3 paragraph lead; blue 2-col table, 15 links under 5 headers, 4 params:
 * Welcome-anon-t → 7 bullets, & Q, T, H; tea service image.
 * Welcome-t-anon → variation of Welcome-anon-t: 6 bullets, 6 benefits of registering, T, Q; tea tray image.
 * Thanks → Very simple; thanks for edits; no bullets; quirky green smile image.


 * short
 * {{subst:W-short-ip}} → concise; won't overwhelm

For those who have helped in specific areas:
 * Welcome-unregistered-constructive → made constructive edits – 1 paragraph, 8 bullets, + Q, H (alias: Welcome-anon-constructive
 * Welcome-anon-vandalism-fighter → fought vandalism – 4 paragraphs, 3 vandalism bullets, + Q, T, H.

Improvement needed or problematic
For users who have:
 * Welcome-anon-summary → made constructive edits, but forgot the edit summary – 8 bullets, edit summary advice, Q, H. (A mashup of Welcome-unregistered-constructive and uw-editsummary.)
 * Welcome-anon-suboptimal → made edits with constructive intent, but which had to be reverted. 3 paragraphs, 6 bullets, T, Q, C, H.
 * Welcome-unregistered-test → made a test edit. One paragraph, 5 links; Q, T, H. (alias: Welcome-anon-test
 * Welcome-unregistered-unconstructive → vandalized a page or had their first edits reverted – 5 links. (alias: Welcome-anon-unconstructive)
 * Welcome-anon-unsourced → added unsourced info – 3 paragraphs, 5 bullets, + Q, T, H; yellow bg.
 * Welcome-anon-npov → added non-neutral info – 3 paragraphs, 4 bullets, + Q, T; yellow background.

Topic-specific
Use one of these to greet new users interested in a particular topic:

Countries and regions

 * {{subst:Welcome-Australia}} ~ → Australia
 * {{subst:Welcome-Austria}} ~ → Austria
 * {{subst:Welcome-Bangladesh}} ~ → Bangladesh
 * {{subst:Welcome-California}} ~ → California
 * {{subst:Welcome-Estonia}} ~ → Estonia
 * {{subst:Welcome-India}} ~ → India
 * {{subst:Welcome-Germany}} ~ → Germany
 * {{subst:Welcome-Malaysia}} ~ → Malaysia
 * {{subst:Welcome-Mauritius}} ~ → Mauritius
 * {{subst:Welcome-Norway}} ~ → Norway
 * {{subst:Welcome-Pakistan}} ~ → Pakistan
 * {{subst:Welcome-Poland}} ~ → Poland
 * {{subst:Welcome-Russia}} ~ → Russia
 * {{subst:Welcome-Singapore}} → Singapore
 * {{subst:Welcome-Switzerland}} ~ → Switzerland
 * {{subst:Welcome-Ukraine}} ~ → Ukraine

Topics

 * {{subst:Welcome-bio}} ~ → Biography
 * {{subst:RightWelcome}} ~ → Conservatism
 * {{subst:CyclingWelcome}} ~ → Cycling
 * {{subst:W-dbz}} ~ → Dragon Ball
 * {{subst:Welcome-EDMC}} ~ → Rave and electronic music
 * {{subst:Welcome-GOCE}} ~ → Guild of Copy Editors
 * {{subst:MathWelcome}} ~ → Mathematics
 * {{subst:MedWelcome}} ~ → Medicine
 * {{subst:PhyWelcome}} ~ → Physics
 * {{subst:Psychology welcome}} ~ → Psychology
 * {{subst:RugbyWelcome}} ~ → Rugby union
 * {{subst:Welcome Scouting}} ~ → Scouting
 * {{subst:welcome-roads}} ~ → Canada Roads, Highways, UK Roads, U.S. Roads
 * {{subst:StarWarsWelc}} ~ → Star Wars
 * {{subst:Vg welcome}} → Video games (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo)

Non-English
Used for a user who is creating or editing articles in poor English, and whose native language is known or can be guessed with reasonable confidence. (If the user has been writing articles in another language, one of the templates on Category:Non-English user warning templates should be used instead.)

Use this template to welcome the user, substituting in the language code, such as 'fr' for French, or 'de' for German:


 * {{subst:welcome-foreign}}

The welcome will be issued in two languages: English, and the user's language, if the lang code corresponds to any of the following: Albanian, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.

If the lang code corresponds to a language not shown above, the welcome message is issued in English only. Text for any language with a Wikipedia project may be easily added to a subpage, and the template will pick it up automatically; see the /doc page for instructions.

Σ

 * , nearly identical to User:Hi878's but requires no parameters.

2

 * or, based on Welcome to Wikipedia, customized for mentees

4

 * , nearly identical to User:Hi878's but requires no parameters.

-

 * , based on Template:W-link. Contains warning message!

A

 * is a new year variation of {{subst:Welcome screen}}
 * , welcome users who contribute to Astronomy-related articles.
 * , welcome with personalized message, syntax is
 * is a more customizable and personalized template than the standard welcomes, and can be used for both anonymous editors and users
 * is a similar message, but in copy-and-paste format allowing easy modification and personalization
 * , welcome with personalized message, syntax is
 * is a more customizable and personalized template than the standard welcomes, and can be used for both anonymous editors and users
 * is a similar message, but in copy-and-paste format allowing easy modification and personalization



B

 * A hearty welcome in Dino Ursprache
 * The Main Page of all of Booksworm's welcome messages. They are, however, very graphic and work best on Mozilla Firefox
 * Mostly copied from Coffee's but has a rose in a vase instead of cookies. Use
 * For welcoming a new user who created a good page.
 * For welcoming a user who became involved in an uncivil discussion early in their "career". You may add the username of the editor who was attacked if desired.  Based on Welcomenpov and includes a heading.
 * For welcoming a user who became involved in an uncivil discussion early in their "career". You may add the username of the editor who was attacked if desired.  Based on Welcomenpov and includes a heading.

C

 * A semi-clone of AxG's but has different colors and tells users about Wikiprojects.
 * Combination of Welcome-anon and Welcome-unsourced.
 * Welcomes registered contributors. Although I started it, give major credit to Thehelpfulone for making major improvements to it.
 * Welcomes registered contributors. Although I started it, give major credit to Thehelpfulone for making major improvements to it.

D

 * Aspects of many templates together.


 * Customized for the User.


 * Based on Friendlywelcome and Welcomelaws templates. Other colours:

F

 * Alternative to Template:welcome-personal; includes fruit and added links
 * Similar to cookies plate version except few changes

G

 * For welcoming new active users
 * Only for welcoming IPs, contains an Uncle Sam image.
 * Only for welcoming IPs, contains an Uncle Sam image.

H

 * - A shortened version of TomasBat's template
 * - A shortened version of TomasBat's template

I

 * Broad warning/welcome tool, still expanding. If you wish to add or make suggestions, ring me up on my talk page!
 * Based on TomasBat's welcome page
 * Based on TomasBat's welcome page
 * Based on TomasBat's welcome page

L

 * is my version of the welcomecookie template

M

 * A mix of most welcome pages. Based on TomasBat's welcome page. You have to change the talk page link to your own at the bottom.
 * – Shortcut: . See format and other information here. Based on TomasBat's welcome template.
 * – Shortcut: . See format and other information here. Based on TomasBat's welcome template.

N

 * For editors under 18. Encourages internet safety and anonymity and links to WP:YOUNG. Requires substituting but should automatically append your signature.

O

 * , which has room for a comment, and
 * , for a new user who created an article without a category. For both of them, there is a link to my talk page: use the user parameter to link to yours instead.

P

 * this suggests a WikiProject that the new user may want to join; the full syntax is WikiProjectKeyWord, where the WikiProjectKeyWord is what follows the Wikipedia:Wikiproject, so for example Sociology of United States

R

 * : Doesn't require any options, just paste this code into a new editor's talk page. This welcome template is special because it has basic guides of copy editing, vandal patrolling, etc.
 * : Based on questions often asked at the the Teahouse, this template is written in basic English and includes links to often-suggested pages for new users like WP:BACKWARDS.
 * : Based on questions often asked at the the Teahouse, this template is written in basic English and includes links to often-suggested pages for new users like WP:BACKWARDS.

S

 * Based on Welcome with spinning icon for users interested in politics.
 * Translated from the Portugese Wikipedia.
 * For registered users.
 * For registered users who made a helpful edit.
 * For registered users who made a helpful edit.

T

 * If you use this you must change the user talk section or I will get messages intended for you!
 * Remember to add your username.

W

 * for newbies who are contributing to articles having to do with horses
 * for newbies who are contributing to articles having to do with horses

Editor retention
Not strictly a "new user" welcome (more like, a "don't go" template, or "welcome to independent editing"), retention templates are geared towards editor retention, that is, keeping editors active at Wikipedia who might otherwise leave.


 * {{subst:Student retention}} – for student editors in the Education program, when their class is about over.