User blog comment:Zambiealex/How to Represent your Home Wiki/@comment-5558012-20160710173225

Though short, this blog still has good value.

Many new editors think the auto greeting is a real person and comment to it. When no one replies back, that can be negative blow for that new user. I try to greet in addition to the welcome message so there's more of a personal feel than the traditional linking of resources on auto greetings. Always reply back to auto greetings.

Definitely encourage established members of the community to help guide all new users to the community (even senior editors from other wikis just starting to edit in your community). Each wiki is quite different from another so everyone could use some support in transitioning into a new environment.

I love ideas. I wish the wiki I edited most gave out more that weren't facilitated by me. Suggestions on how to improve a wiki or a specific page can go far, even just from readers that don't want to edit. Perhaps there's something about the wiki, some stereotype, going around that you might want to fix.

The idea of not bullying people can be difficult in an online setting. You don't know how someone is going to take a comment. An innocent comment might not appear that way to others. What could be meant to help improve edits could be taken in a way to say that user isn't good enough to edit on the wiki. Unless it's undeniable bullying (such as insults), try to consider that the comment is meant to help.