Forum:Welcome tool

Truly, what nonsense is it? I just created a wiki and after editing the so-called "Main Page" I got a "welcome message" from... myself? Andrey Markov 22:55, 26 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It the new Welcome tool : Forum:New features on Wednesday, March 18th. — TulipVorlax 00:08, 27 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, Andrey! Yeah, the welcome tool is a new feature that we've launched which helps admins to welcome every new contributor who comes to the wiki. You can see more information on the User:Wikia page, which is also posted on your wiki.


 * This is a brand-new feature, so there's still a bug fix that we're in the process of making -- turning off welcomes for people who are admins on the wiki, so that the situation you just had won't happen again. If you'd created your wiki a couple days from now, it wouldn't have happened. :)


 * Meanwhile -- congratulations on starting your new wiki, and good luck with it! -- Danny (talk ) 00:10, 27 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It is a rather obtrusive feature. The default should be off, with an option to turn it on. Kingturtle 22:05, 27 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The defaut is On because there's a lot of inactives wikis where this is becoming more important. — TulipVorlax 00:38, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Since the main new features forum page is fill with multiple subjects...

A user reported me


 * Another problem. Signing the comment from "User:@latest" This should not even been happening.
 * And here, signing the comment from the user themself same as original subject since he is a staff he should not even be welcome.

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 * Blame Danny about that. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 09:55, 28 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, one of those things happened because we're working on fixing the other one. :) We're changing the code so that staff members, helpers and admins don't leave welcomes for themselves. Unfortunately, the code that we released yesterday to fix that had a glitch in it, which left @latest as the signature for a couple hours. We identified the problem and rolled back the code, so that's not happening anymore, and on Monday, we'll work on fixing the code.


 * I'm sorry for the confusion with that. This is always the way it goes with brand-new features; you have momentary bumps along the way. -- Danny (talk ) 16:28, 28 March 2009 (UTC)


 * While we're on the subject... I've been keeping an eye on the stats since we launched the welcome feature, and it looks like anonymous registrations and edits have gone up significantly since we started welcoming anon users. We launched the welcome feature site-wide on March 19th, and from March 19-27, registrations are up 15.9% over a corresponding number of days two weeks ago (March 5-13). This doesn't seem to be related to an increase in traffic -- anonymous pageviews are only up 1% for that time period.


 * Also during that same time period: anonymous users clicking the save button is up 20%, and for logged-in users, saves are up 11.6%.


 * This is what we were hoping to see, once we started welcoming everybody while they were still on the wikis. The welcomes seem to be encouraging anonymous users to log in, and they're encouraging everybody to stay and make more edits. -- Danny (talk ) 16:45, 28 March 2009 (UTC)