Forum:Welcome message problem

Hello, I've just discovered that the welcoming message of the Wiki I admin is not working.

Right now it says this:

''Hi, welcome to The Three Kingdoms Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the page.''

If you need help, and there are no local admins here, you may want to visit the forums on the Community Central Wiki --Sarah Manley (Talk) 12:04, 12 April 2010

How did this happen? -- Zantam03 13:12, April 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * If you're trying to customize it, there's a message - also, Sarah is a Wikia staff member, so she counts as an admin. --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 13:28, April 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * There is some info on it (the wikia auto welcome tool) here about customising it. Its default setting are to sign post by admins so the last active in the case you refere to was (probably) Sarah Manley (as zapwire says a Wikia staff member) - This can be modified in the options, but is used so that new contributors general are given a point of contact who has been active on the wiki recently. By default if you go to a inactive wiki and make an edit you get the welcome message you received signed by a staff member.


 * There was a more in-depth explanation at the time it was launched on here, but I've not found the old discussion to provide a link to it. That discussed customising the messages and turning off some options. - BulldozerD11 16:09, April 12, 2010 (UTC)

BUt the message used to be signed by me, not Sarah... -- Zantam03 18:39, April 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * A look at your wiki recent changes (history) shows that my assumption that Sarah must have edited recently was wrong. but that you had recently changed the mediawiki page relating to messages before the message was issued by the system.


 * So might be because you edited the mediawiki:welcome_user file to @Zantam03 a short time before the users 1st edit. So it defaulted to signing by staff. The options are listed on the user:wikia page - I think you just use your user name not with the @ symbol in front. As i said above previously the bot would have signed it by the last active admin (sysop) or staff, so the change must have made it go to staff. - BulldozerD11 20:48, April 12, 2010 (UTC)

Tried that, thanks :-) Hope it works -- Zantam03 20:50, April 12, 2010 (UTC)