Welcome!
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- Contributing to Wikipedia (Tutorial)
- How to edit a page and How to develop articles
- How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
- Simplified Manual of Style
- Wikipedia Teahouse (a user-friendly help forum)
You don't have to log in to read or edit articles on Wikipedia, although if you wish to acquire additional privileges, simply create an account. It's free, requires no personal information, and lets you:
- Create new pages, and customize the appearance and behavior of the website
- Rename pages
- Edit semi-protected pages
- Upload images
- Have your own watchlist, which shows when articles you are interested in have changed
- Utilize a vast array of editing tools
In addition, your IP address will no longer be visible to other users.
In any case, I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or . Again, welcome!
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To use this template, add
{{subst:Welcome-t-anon}}~~~~
to the user's talk page.
Redirects
editAlternative names for this template (redirects) include {{Anon}}, {{Anonymous}} and (many variants of) {{Create an account}}, {{Welcome-ip}}, etc.
For related templates, see #See Also below.
Parameters
editAll of these parameters are optional:
|cookie=y– adds an image of cookies:{{subst:Welcome|cookie=y}}|heading=no– Suppress the automatic heading:{{subst:Welcome|heading=no}}|headtext=Greetings!– Change the contents of the heading:{{subst:Welcome|headtext=Greetings!}}|1=for a custom additional message to replace "Happy editing!":{{subst:Welcome-t-anon|1=I enjoy your work. Keep it up!}}~~~~
|ipname=for the name of the IP's collective audience:{{subst:Welcome-t-anon|ipname=Australians}}~~~~
|art=name an article to which the anon user contributed in a positive way:{{subst:Welcome-t-anon|art=Radar detector}}~~~~
TemplateData
editTemplateData for Welcome-t-anon
A generic welcome template for anonymous users (IP addresses). Must be substituted.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Additional message | 1 | Additional message that replaces the default test
| String | optional |
| Name of IP user | ipname | The name of the person/audience behind the IP address, if known. | String | optional |
| Linked article | art | Article at which the user has made positive contributions | Page name | suggested |
| Do not thank | nothanks | Do not thank for edits that are not helpful (though well-intentioned)
| Boolean | deprecated |
| Do not link to poster's talk | notalk | Do not link back to poster's talk page
| Boolean | deprecated |
| heading | heading | Suppresses the automatic heading | Unknown | optional |
| heading text | headtext | Changes the contents of the heading
| String | optional |
| cookie | cookie | Adds a picture of cookies
| Unknown | optional |
| new user | newuser | Uses alternate text not linking to the editor's contributions
| Unknown | optional |
See also
edit- {{Thanks}}
- {{Welcome-anon-constructive}} – have helped in vandal fighting and have made constructive edits
- {{Welcome-anon-npov}}
- {{Welcome-anon-suboptimal}} – have made edits that were clearly intended to be constructive, but had to be reverted for some reason
- {{welcome-anon-summary}} – have made constructive edits, but forgot to use an edit summary
- {{Welcome-anon-test}} – seem to have made a test edit
- {{Welcome-anon-unconstructive}} – have vandalized a page or had their first edits reverted
- {{Welcome-anon-unsourced}}
- {{Welcome-anon-vandalism-fighter}}
- {{Welcome-anon-belated}}, have been around for a while, but haven't received a welcome
- {{W-graphical-anon}} – encourages getting a username, based on graphical welcome template
- Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates