Auto-Welcome
What (summary)
Automatically welcoming new people as they create an account, giving them a contact person that is currently online to encourage engagement with less resources.
Why this is important
- Freeing up community staff time for other engagement tasks
- Providing new people that sign up an automatic contact person that is online for help and links to help pages
- Making sure 100% of people that sign up (rather than 50% or less of people that make edits) get welcomed
- Teaching new people about talk page messaging system
- Pointing out what AboutUs is so people can make more effective edits and not just sign up and never make any edits (I think we have a high % of this now)
DoneDone
- Tell Kristina how the standard welcome should be formatted (like this or this or something else)
- Questions: How are pagename, signatures, and edit summmaries going to work?
- The bot selects a welcomer from Category:Initial Welcomer who is currently online (if no welcomer is currently online use MediaWiki:InitialPersonalTalkPage).
- Every newly created account receives a welcome from a welcomer's standard message (randomly or in sequence). This will live at User:Username/Welcome.
- Bot randomly selects from online welcomer, and then from their respective welcome messages if they have more than one. Example: User:Username/Welcome2 and so on.
- Wish List: The ability for people to say how many welcomes they want to put out in ratio to others. Example: Ted wants to do half as much as Kasey.
