Template:Welcome/sandbox
Hello, Welcome, and welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia! Thank you for your changes.
You may want to begin by reading these pages:
- Help
- Rules
- Links to useful pages
- How to write Simple English pages
- How to copy from another Wikipedia
For some ideas of pages to work on, read Wikipedia:Requested pages or the list of wanted pages.
You can change any pages you want! Any changes you make can be seen right away. You can ask questions at Wikipedia:Simple talk. At the end of your messages on talk pages, please sign your name by clicking 
or using four tildes (~~~~); this will show your username and the date.
If you need help just click here and type {{helpme}} and your question and someone will reply to you shortly.
Good luck and happy changing!
 | This is the template sandbox page for Template:Welcome (diff). See also the companion subpage for test cases. |
 | If you plan to make breaking changes to this template, move it, or nominate it for deletion, please notify Twinkle's users and maintainers at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle as a courtesy, as this template is used in the standard installation of Twinkle. Thank you! |
 | This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:Welcome}}). |
Usage
changeAdd {{subst:Welcome}} ~~~~ to the user's talk page.
Parameters:
- First parameter = your name:
{{subst:Welcome|Myname}} - Parameter 'art' = Article the user positively contributed to:
{{subst:Welcome|art=Radar detector}}
Be sure to remember to add your signature ( ~~~~ ) after the template, as the text refers to 'my talk page'.
TemplateData
changeThe standard template to welcome new editors.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| heading | heading | Suppresses the automatic heading | Unknown | optional |
| Heading text | headtext | Changes the contents of the heading
| String | optional |
| border | border | Adds a border around the message in a specified color or hex triplet
| String | optional |
| Border radius | borderradius | Specifies the rounding of the border
| Unknown | optional |
| image | image | Adds an image to go with the welcome (no need for brackets)
| File | optional |
| Image caption | imagecaption | Specifies a caption to go with the image
| String | optional |
| New user | newuser | Uses alternate text not linking to the editor's contributions
| Boolean | optional |
| Article | art article | Mentions and links to an article the editor has contributed to | Page name | suggested |
| Custom start | customstart | Adds a custom message at the end of the first paragraph
| String | suggested |
| Custom end | customend | Adds a custom ending to the message
| String | suggested |
Related pages
change- Use
{{subst:welcome-anon}}for anonymous (IP) editors. - See Category:Welcome templates for others.