Forum:MediaWiki:Welcomecreation - has been bypassed

I had not noticed this before today but it seems that the controversial redirect to the My Home page has replaced the intended display of the MediaWiki message MediaWiki:Welcomecreation

That is probably OK for a vast majority of wikis that never defined/use MediaWiki:Welcomecreation however at one of the wiki's I have developed that new account welcome message provides a link that prompts a new user to make their first edit right away. As you know a user's first edit triggers the creation of a user page based on MediaWiki:Welcome-user-page. I had used this initialization for a Semantic MediaWiki feature at w:c:vsk however I now see that this is routinely being bypassed. This has affected only a half a dozen new accounts so far so it's not a huge problem to rectify.


 * Is it possible to have the MediaWiki:Welcomecreation message take precedence/priority over the My Home redirect for those wiki that have that defined this MediWiki message?
 * Of course this would only affect the page displayed after initial account creation. Any subsequent visits to the wiki would redirect the return visitor to their My Home page.
 * A suitable (and perhaps preferable) alternative would be for the initial creation of a user page to be triggered at the time of account creation rather than waiting for a user's first edit. (Heads up: as SMW and SF becomes more widely used this type of request for initialization of a user page may increase.)

Yes, I realize this is a request for Special:Contact but I reason that if I could go for so many months without noticing this problem then it is quite possible that it has escaped the attention of some other wiki developer/maintainer as well.

--najevi 00:15, October 23, 2009 (UTC)


 * The MyHome feature was enabled a month ago, and Danny said that after a month Wikia could change something about it based on their usage statistics. Maybe you can add another objection to the redirect in the blog, although I suspect that Danny will continue ignoring us. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 15:03, October 23, 2009 (UTC)