Template:W-graphical

Hello, Example, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask at the help desk, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to help you get started. Happy editing! ~~~~

Getting started

• Introduction
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Intuitive guide to Wikipedia

Finding your way around

• Table of contents
• Directories and indexes
• Department directory

Editing articles

• How to develop an article
• Simplified Manual of Style

Getting help

• Frequently asked questions
• Cheatsheet
• Our help forum for new editors, the Teahouse
• The Help Desk, for more advanced questions
• Help pages
• Article Wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles

How you can help

• Community Portal
• Join a WikiProject
• Follow Wikipedia etiquette
• Practice civility
• Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community

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Usage

• To greet an editor with this template just as it appears above (your signature will automatically replace the ~~~~), place the following wikicode on the editor's talk page:

{{subst:W-graphical}}

• To add a message in an additional paragraph before the last sentence, use:

{{subst:W-graphical|message}}

Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "Happy editing!"

• To add a (level-2) heading above the greeting, use:

{{subst:W-graphical|heading=heading text}}

The heading will be the text you replace your text with.

• To change the color of the entire message, use:

{{subst:W-graphical|color=color}}

Replace color with one of the following choices (the default is navy blue and orange, shown above):

1. cyan
2. pink

• The above options can be combined:

{{subst:W-graphical|Wikipedia is amazing.|heading=true|headtext=Welcome to Wikipedia}}

Parameters

• article What article the editor has contributed to.

See also

• Wikipedia:Welcoming committee

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Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
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