[Vim-l] Auto welcome

[Benjamin Fritz]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:02 PM, John Beckett <johnb.beckett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now we've got a case where
> a user created a talk page for a tip (to say "good"), and the user got a
> welcome!
>

I actually think this is a good thing. We'll give a nice welcome even
to contributors we may have mostly ignored in the past, and we can
always (as you did) respond appropriately to issues we may have.

> I tweaked the welcome message so it will show
>  Hi, welcome to the Vim Tips wiki!
> instead of
>  Hi, welcome to Vim Tips Wiki!
>

Good change. I've tweaked it again to add the username:

    Hi JohnDoe, welcome to the Vim Tips wiki!

> Re the anonymous user greetings, I think it would look a bit strange for
> a user to find any sort of welcome on a page with a "delete" box.

You have a point. I did think of that, and was trying to add the
delete template to the *bottom* with a nice long reason for deletion,
but realized that doing this would also flag the settings page itself
for deletion.

I've gone ahead and disabled annonymous greetings, so this is a moot
point for now unless we decide to re-enable them later.