Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-3417079-20150626034226/@comment-3417079-20150627053229

DEmersonJMFM wrote: Bruce A wrote:

I just want to see what the message looks like, visually. Did you even read what I posted? It stated the exact problem about why the message isn't what you want it to be. Once you edit the correct page, what is on that page is very much the same exact post. I read the heading of '''Why is my wiki's welcome message not updating? '''and assumed you didn't understand what I was asking.

So, I read what you linked to: "' Why is my wiki's welcome message not updating?" "Be sure you are editing the correct MediaWiki pages.  MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user  and MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anon  should be edited for wikis with user talk pages while MediaWiki:Welcome-message-wall-user  and  MediaWiki:Welcome-message-wall-anon  should be edited for wikis with user message walls. Also see  Help:Welcome tool .'"

The example you link to links to:


 * http://community.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-message-wall-user


 * http://community.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-message-wall-anon

I also followed your instructions and created a page for MediaWiki:Welcome-message-wall-user.

All three of those pages still show dollar signs, and the page I created has a broken link for the "my profile page" link.

So, the issues are:


 * 1. Broken link for "my profile page" (I copied and pasted that code from old welcome message, so I'm not sure why it would be broken)


 * 2. It shows dollar signs instead of something user-friendly. I'm wondering if there is a way to get it to show something user friendly, instead of confusing dollar signs. (Hence my original question of, " How can I preview what it will look like for users?")