[Vim-l] Auto welcome

[John Beckett]

Any thoughts on the new auto-welcome system Wikia has introduced? We can
configure the text it uses, and we can disable it (I'm a bit suspicious
of anything cutsey, and my inclination is to disable it, but maybe I'm
too curmudgeonly).

One minute after a new user (registered or just an IP address) edits a
page, their user page is automatically created (if a registered user),
and a message is put on their talk page. Example:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:83.83.187.191

These four settings configure how it works:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anon
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-user-page
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-user

Welcome-message-user: Text put on new user's Talk page.
Welcome-message-anon: Same, for IP addresses (not registered).
Welcome-user-page: Text put on new user's User page.

Welcome-user: configuration; one of following:
  "@latest" = message signed by admin who did most-recent edit
  Username = message signed by this user
  "@disabled" = no welcome messages

Details (also two other new "features"):
http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:New_features_coming_on_Wednesday

John