Template:W-informal

Welcome!

Hello, W-informal, and welcome to Wikipedia! This is one of the most popular websites in the world, and it's only through the contributions of editors like you. And Wikipedia is not just a collection of articles, it's an active community. The real fun here is contributing to Wikipedia, but don't feel hurt if some of your first few edits get removed, as there are some central guidelines you may not be familiar with.

Some good advice: be bold in your editing, and use the talk pages to discuss with other editors. Be kind to others, because there's a lot you can learn from them, and there's lots they can help you with.

There's lots of resources to help you become a great editor, from our basic introduction to our in-depth manual. But if you have any questions or problems, no matter what they are, leave me a message on my talk page or place {{helpme}} on this page to get any help you need. If you haven't done so, tell us a bit about yourself. Oh, and please sign your name on talk pages and votes by typing ~~~~; our software automatically converts it to your username and the date.

Glad you're here! ~~~~

Tip of the day...

"Where do I begin?"

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, that explains millions of things about the world, the people and things on it, and beyond. There are 2 ways to look things up in Wikipedia: by searching or by browsing...

If you know the name of the topic you are looking for, simply type it into Wikipedia's search box, press ↵ Enter, or click on the magnifying glass.

If you would like to look around Wikipedia to see what is on it, keep in mind that many major subjects have a root article on the Portal:Contents/Overviews page, and an outline listed at Portal:Contents/Outlines.

There are some other "Tables of Contents" type pages on Wikipedia. They are:

• Portal:Contents/Portals – portals provide a digest of excerpts and things to do
• Portal:Contents/Lists – item lists like List of dog breeds
• Portal:Contents/Glossaries – alphabetized lists of definitions

Wikipedia also has an alphabetical index of all of its articles, and a categorical index of most of them.

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Become a Wikipedia tipster

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}

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Instructions

• 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-informal}}

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

{{subst:W-informal|message}}

Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "We're so glad you're here!"

• To add a border, use:

{{subst:W-informal|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.

• To change the opening to a (level-2) heading, use:

{{subst:W-informal|heading=true}}

• To change the wording of the heading, use:

{{subst:W-informal|headtext=your text}}

Replace your text with the text you want to appear in the heading.

• The above options can be combined:

{{subst:W-informal|Wikipedia is far better than Britannica.|border=DarkOrchid|heading=true|headtext=Welcome to Wikipedia}}

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:W-informal/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.