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Usage
- To greet a user with this template just as it appears above (your signature will automatically replace the
~~~~), place the following wikicode on the user's talk page:
{{subst:W-short}}
- To add a message before the last sentence, use:
{{subst:W-short|message}}
- Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "Happy editing!"
- To add an additional message specific to anonymous users which recommends creating an account, use:
{{subst:W-short|anon=true}}
- To add a border, use:
{{subst:W-short|border=color}}
- Replace color with the name or code of the color you'd like to use. This can be in either named (e.g.,
DarkOrchid) or hexadecimal (e.g.,#9932CC) format. For a list of colors, see web colors.
- Appears not to work well with
|heading=
- To add a heading to the greeting (changes "Welcome..." to a level-2 heading), use:
{{subst:W-short|heading=true}}
- Appears not to work well with
|border=
- To change the wording of the heading, use:
{{subst:W-short|headtext=your text}}
- Replace your text with type in the text you want to replace "Welcome..." with.
- The above options can be combined:
{{subst:W-short|One more thing:|border=DarkOrchid|heading=true|headtext=Welcome to Wikipedia}}
See also