Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-31246436-20160219185513/@comment-1757994-20160219192945

AChildOfGod wrote: Also, I didn't get any message when I started editing on the wiki. Not every wiki runs the welcome bot.

Without running the bot, you'd need to write your own code to figure out the user's first edit. If the bot code is available (it probably is), you could just steal it.