User talk:Dan Koehl/Archives/2015/January

Greeting new users
Hello, Dan. Thank you for greeting new users! One small thing, though: You are inserting a space at the beginning of your message, producing results like you see here. Again, this is a small thing, but it's undesirable.

See how I produced the same effect here.

If you want to post the standard welcome messages, you can do that by inserting the following templates (without the "nowiki"): and.

You can see two of the messages at Welcome message:

[...]you can type to insert the same text from Template:welcome.

[...]you can type to insert the same text from Template:wikipedian.

I don't see the words for in any document starting with "Wikivoyage," but it looks like this:

Hello, [IP of user]! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

By the way, have you considered creating an account here? While you can absolutely keep contributing as an anonymous user, it promises a bunch of benefits, and no obligations.

If you want to add something to these welcome messages, you can type it after the template.

Thanks again!

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:13, 12 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I didnt notice that since started contribute on Wikipedia in 2002. I believe that normally those templates has an inbuilt function that overrides that, since I never experienced that before with a template, when inserting a space. Dan Koehl (talk) 12:09, 12 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Oh, that's strange. I didn't realize you were using a template. But yeah, apparently that can happen if you insert a space before the template. Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:17, 12 January 2015 (UTC)