Template:Welcome

Hello, Welcome, and welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia! Thank you for your changes.

You may want to begin by reading these pages:

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!

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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

Add {{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

The standard template to welcome new editors.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
heading	`heading`	Suppresses the automatic heading	Unknown	optional
Heading text	`headtext`	Changes the contents of the heading Default Welcome!	String	optional
border	`border`	Adds a border around the message in a specified color or hex triplet Example DarkViolet, #9400D3	String	optional
Border radius	`borderradius`	Specifies the rounding of the border Default 2px Example 15px	Unknown	optional
image	`image`	Adds an image to go with the welcome (no need for brackets) Example File:Chocolate chip cookies.jpg	File	optional
Image caption	`imagecaption`	Specifies a caption to go with the image Example Here, enjoy some cookies! [[File:Face-smile.svg\|20px\|link=\|alt=Smiley emoji]]	String	optional
New user	`newuser`	Uses alternate text not linking to the editor's contributions Example y	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 Default I hope you like it here and decide to stay.	String	suggested
Custom end	`customend`	Adds a custom ending to the message Default Happy editing!	String	suggested

Related pages

Use {{subst:welcome-anon}} for anonymous (IP) editors.
See Category:Welcome templates for others.

The documentation on top is transcluded from Template:Welcome/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.