[OSM-talk] Wiki Special:Log/newusers

[Robin Paulson]

On 14/12/2007, Edoardo Marascalchi <edoardo at edoardomarascalchi.it> wrote:
> Edoardo Marascalchi ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> > i'm asking myself why the special page
> >
> > Special:Log/newuser
> >
> > give me no results.
>
>
> i give an answare myself.
> Log/newusers need and extension:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Newuserlog
>
> Could some wiki admins add this extension?
>
> I need it because i would send every new user a message (via template)
> to welcome and ask to add to their user page a contry-specific category like
>
> [[Users in Italy|nick]]
>
> This could be very usefull to aggregate people and help newbie to
> aproach OSM way of mapping..

a very fine idea, particularly if it looked at their IP address and
informed them of the relevant wiki project page for their country