[OSM-talk] Wiki Special:Log/newusers

[Edoardo Marascalchi]

Frederik Ramm ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
>   
>>    Even with good intentions, it wouldn't be good for people to be sending
>>    messages to every new user, some would consider it spam.
>>     
>
> It is common practice in many Wikis to write a welcome message on a
> new user's "talk" page. In fact many Wikis have people who do nothing
> else than greet new users and have a race between them who greets
> first ;-)
>
>   
and usually we have a standard welcome message giving direction where to
check for basic information, how to contact the community and some
general tips. One of the tips i would like to give should be to insert
in the own userpage the category [[Category:Users in _Country]]

Very often i browse the map to discover who is mapping an area just to
send him a message in the www enviroment, than checking if the same
username is registered to the wiki and then leaving a welcome message.
In this way i had some success contacting italian people who does'nt
really know how to map in a proper way.

I think a newusers log could facilitate this kind of tasks.

Edoardo


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