User:Andrew Hampe/Templates/Welcome To Wikipedia

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Hello Andrew Hampe/Templates, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Signature icon.png or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement.
Happy editing! ~~~~

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This template employs intricate features of template syntax.
You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the general Template sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.

[edit] Instructions

  • To greet a user with this template just as it appears above (your signature will automatically replace the ~~~~), place the following wikicode on the user's talk page:
{{subst:Andrew Hampe/Templates/Welcome To Wikipedia}}
  • To add a message in an additional paragraph before the last sentence, use:
{{subst:Andrew Hampe/Templates/Welcome To Wikipedia|message}}
Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "Happy editing!"
  • To add a (level-2) heading above the greeting, use:
{{subst:Andrew Hampe/Templates/Welcome To Wikipedia|heading=heading text}}
The heading will be the text you replace your text with.
  • To change the color of the entire message, use:
{{subst:Andrew Hampe/Templates/Welcome To Wikipedia|color=color}}
Replace color with one of the following choices (the default is navy blue and orange, shown above):
  1. cyan
  2. pink
  • The above options can be combined:
{{subst:Andrew Hampe/Templates/Welcome To Wikipedia|Wikipedia is amazing.|heading=true|headtext=Welcome to Wikipedia}}