Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-3417079-20150626034226/@comment-3417079-20150706121753

DEmersonJMFM wrote: The welcome messages not updating (or simply changing) was your problem. You were editing a welcome page, but it was showing a different message.

The dollar signs and numbers are variables for the welcome pages which are explained on the Help:Welcome tool page. If they are used correctly, they will not show as numbers in the welcome (and this should be the primary change between what's on the MediaWiki page and the message wall).

Everything works. Thannks for the info. (I do appreciate your willingness to help.)

I still think it's terrible that they show dollar signs (code, basically) rather than something more user-friendly.

But anyway, I can submit this to them as feedback.

Good to know the message working as intended.