Forum:The Welcome tool stopped working

Hello! I'm a sysop from EarthBound Wiki, and recently we've been having problems with the MediaWiki greetings made by the Welcome tool. Between greeting User 64.252.194.23 and User 113.246.241.120, the user Wikia's messages ceased to follow the "@latest" in MediaWiki:Welcome-user, instead linking to a non-existent editor, User 127.0.0.1. I tried to change MediaWiki:Welcome-user's text to "@sysop" to see if that would help, but it still links to 127.0.0.1. I've gone through the changes that occurred between the two events, but there was nothing that would cause the Welcome tool to fail. Thanks in advance for help, Ant1pr0t0n (Talk) 06:57, July 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * [EDIT: The reason why the time my signature lists doesn't match the time this thread was created is because I copied this nearly verbatim from where I erroneously posted this in Wikia Help's Talk page for the Welcome tool. My apologies; I'm not used to Wikia forums... Ant1pr0t0n (Talk) 08:07, July 19, 2011 (UTC)]
 * I've noticed a similar glitch. It is likely being fixed and will be fine eventually, and back to normal. ~> ฬ ђ  (tคlк ★  ς๏ภtгเ๒ร) 09:26, July 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * I've reported this twice before... I have also added just to make sure...


 * Per above, the IP 127.0.0.1 is a localhost IP - it's the server's internal. User:Wikia is a PHP bot, it's a server-side script that takes the "alias" of a user, so to speak. You may also notice that if you kickban someone from chat, the user that actually performs the action is User:An unknown anonymous user, or the IP 38.127.199.4 as it is in RecentChanges, which is the San Francisco office's IP. So yes, these are server glitches, although I believe staff already know about them. Even if they don't, the best thing to do is Special:Contact as it feeds into the help ticket system, etc etc.


 * Thanks! I'm just glad it's not an error at our end. And I know next to nothing about chat; most wikis I ever edit on don't use it. Ant1pr0t0n (Talk) 04:11, July 20, 2011 (UTC)


 * Perfect! It's working again. Thanks once again, everyone! Ant1pr0t0n (Talk) 18:56, July 24, 2011 (UTC)