Template talk:W-basic

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This template is in the collection of greetings templates maintained by the Welcoming Committee. For other templates in the collection, see Welcome templates.

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[edit] Examples

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{{subst:W-basic}}

Welcome...

Hello, {{SUBST:BASEPAGENAME}}, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for [[Special:Contributions/{{SUBST:PAGENAME}}|your contributions]]. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! ~~~~
{{subst:W-basic|message}}

Welcome...

Hello, {{SUBST:BASEPAGENAME}}, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for [[Special:Contributions/{{SUBST:PAGENAME}}|your contributions]]. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

Message displayed here.

Again, welcome! ~~~~
{{subst:W-basic|anon=true}}

Welcome...

Hello, {{SUBST:BASEPAGENAME}}, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for [[Special:Contributions/{{SUBST:PAGENAME}}|your contributions]]. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

anon=true

Again, welcome! ~~~~
{{subst:W-basic|border=color}}
Displayed with border=DarkOrchid

Welcome...

Hello, {{SUBST:BASEPAGENAME}}, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for [[Special:Contributions/{{SUBST:PAGENAME}}|your contributions]]. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

border=DarkOrchid

Again, welcome! ~~~~
{{subst:W-basic|cookies=true}}

Welcome...

Hello, {{SUBST:BASEPAGENAME}}, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for [[Special:Contributions/{{SUBST:PAGENAME}}|your contributions]]. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

cookies=true

Again, welcome! ~~~~
{{subst:W-basic|icons=true}}

Welcome...

Hello, {{SUBST:BASEPAGENAME}}, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for [[Special:Contributions/{{SUBST:PAGENAME}}|your contributions]]. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

icons=true

Again, welcome! ~~~~
{{subst:W-basic|heading=true}}

Welcome...

Hello, {{SUBST:BASEPAGENAME}}, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for [[Special:Contributions/{{SUBST:PAGENAME}}|your contributions]]. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

heading=true

Again, welcome! ~~~~
{{subst:W-basic|headtext=your text}}

Welcome...

Hello, {{SUBST:BASEPAGENAME}}, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for [[Special:Contributions/{{SUBST:PAGENAME}}|your contributions]]. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

headtext=Example heading

Again, welcome! ~~~~

[edit] Auto-signature

I'd like the option of suppressing the signature, or dispensing with it altogether. I find myself adding other templates, such as edit summary reminders, to the end of welcome messages, and it just doesn't work well with the auto-sig. I now have to break out the edit summary reminders in a separate, unnecessary section. Other templates don't do this, either. Otherwise, great template. Xiner (talk, email) 20:32, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Done. I also suppressed "Again, welcome!" with this option, as it indicates the closure of a message. -Audacity 00:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I seem to be having trouble with the auto-signature. It's not leaving a time-stamp, just the signature. What am I doing wrong? See User talk:MaryLEEinc. I used the following:{{subst:W-basic|border=darkgreen}} Вasil | talk 21:32, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

That's bizarre. It works fine for me. My only idea is that the | in your signature somehow interferes with the template code. Anyway, you can use {{subst:W-basic|border=darkgreen|nosig=true}} Again, welcome! ~~~~ for the same functionality and use a JavaScript welcoming tool so you don't have to type that out each time, or, change your signature. Λυδαcιτγ 01:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, Audacity! It was a problem with the pipe in my signature. After adding a simple nowiki wrapper, it works fine now. Thanks again!
Вasil | talk 19:19, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The six bulleted items

Can they be set up in two columns? The list leaves a lot of empty space that prevents it from being compact. Xiner (talk, email) 20:34, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't think everyone would want to use this, and I can't figure out how to do it without messing up the formatting of certain options. Perhaps ask someone with better HTML/wikitable experience. -Audacity 00:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] W-anon?

I would like to see a "W-anon" template in the same style (with ~~~~, without border) appear, {{subst:w-basic|anon=true}} is a lot of typing to do everytime I welcome an anonymous user (a few each day, from different computers). I'd be happy to make one, if there is sufficient interest. --oKtosiTe talk 10:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I replied at Wikipedia talk:Welcoming committee#New welcome templates. Λυδαcιτγ 17:50, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I'll stop double posting now... ;-) Thanks for the useful reply. --oKtosiTe talk 10:07, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Icon alignment

Me again.Here in Mozilla Firefox on Gentoo Linux the "The five pillars of Wikipedia" list item is misaligned if the "icons=true" switch is used...
I'm not good at building templates, but perhaps you can look into it? --oKtosiTe talk 18:41, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. Λυδαcιτγ 00:53, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! --oKtosiTe talk 14:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Table of contents inside border

Hello. When the border for this template is turned on, and there are enough sections on the talk page to create a Table of Contents, the TOC ends up inside the border of the welcome template; User talk:Smitsaini is an example of this. Thanks for this versatile new template, have you thought of posting it in the grid at WP:UTM? —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 20:24, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Fixed and added; thanks. Λυδαcιτγ 21:34, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 21:41, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problem when a header is selected

Hi again. I've run into an interesting phenomenon. When heading=true is selected, and then subsequent header sections are added later, the section edit links stop working properly. It seems as if even though the header in the template shows up in the table of contents, the software isn't counting it as a section when you attempt a section edit. When an section edit link is clicked, the software opens the section *after* the one that was selected, and if the final section is selected the software returns an error. For an example of what I mean, see User talk:Czimborbryan. Cheers! —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 14:35, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I think this is a result of the section header being inside the ParserFunction that decides whether the header is included or not depending on whether the header option is used. I don't think there's any easy way to fix it. Either we can leave it be, or we can get rid of the header option, either making it mandatory or leaving editors to include a header on their own. Λυδαcιτγ 04:52, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Actually, this problem has been reported and may soon be fixed. Λυδαcιτγ 04:58, 11 July 2007 (UTC)