Forum:MediaWiki:Welcomecreation

Since the changeover to the new Wikia skin (Oasis) from the Vector skin, our wiki no longer seems to use the MediaWiki:Welcomecreation file to greet newly registered users. How do we get that to work with the Oasis skin? Thanks! — Spike Toronto  08:06, May 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * User:Wikia lists the supported welcome messages. — Sovq 08:58, May 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry I wasn’t clearer with my query. Apologies. I’m not talking about the message that gets automatically placed on the brand-new, registered user’s talkpage (i.e., MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user). That is working just fine. There are no problems with the MediaWiki:Welcome-xxxx files and their functioning. What I am talking about is, immediately after a user has just created an account, the very next thing that appears on his/her screen. With previous skins, it was the content at MediaWiki:Welcomecreation (in our case, c:admintools:MediaWiki:Welcomecreation). Whereas the welcome message at MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user only gets placed on a newly registered user’s talk page once s/he makes an edit, MediaWiki:Welcome creation  is intended to be seen immediately by the new user, whether or not s/he makes his/her first edit. It should be the very next thing to appear on his/her screen. This does not appear to happen with the new Wikia skin (i.e., Oasis).  How do I fix this? Thanks! — Spike Toronto  09:28, May 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * Seems to me that this tool has been disabled in the new skin. After registering a new account in the Wikia skin, no message is displayed. A number of MediaWiki pages lost their functionality or have been replace after Monaco was removed, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was one of them. To be sure you can always ask via Special:Contact. — Sovq 10:08, May 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * I think you’re right as well. I just wish I hadn’t spent so much time updating ours. By the way, since the Monaco skin is dead, is it appropriate to remove the Monaco MediaWiki files?


 * Since they're not used you can delete them. However, should you decide to move your wiki to another wiki-farm which supports Monaco or you'd like to copy a css solution you used in Monaco to the new skin, you'd find that these pages can still be useful. I didn't delete any of mine, just in case. — Sovq 08:26, May 13, 2011 (UTC)