User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: October 1, 2013/@comment-3247345-20131003054811/@comment-452-20131003122942

Related to this comment: There appear to have been no welcomes since the 1st.

BTW 3cooldog92, the Empty's wall welcome messages have been happening for over a week now. If you look at Special:Contributions/Wikia, you can see which welcomes were left on "Empty's Wall", then you can click through to each message and see the username, then manually welcome the users if you want.