MediaWiki talk:Welcome-message-user

Suggested new welcome message
Hi there and welcome to (the) Nitrome Wiki, the largest database for all things Nitrome! Our growing community currently has (will be substituted) active users, and you have now become one of them with your contributions to.

Please take some time to read this wiki's policy here, as it may differ from that of other wikis. Most notably, personal images cannot be uploaded to Nitrome Wiki and must be uploaded off site. Fanart can be hosted on Nitrome Fanfiction Wiki.

We have two additional sister wikis, covering different aspects of Nitrome:
 * Nitrome Fanfiction Wiki is a place for uploading Nitrome fanart and creating other fan related works such as stories or fan sequels.
 * Nitrome Pixel Love Wiki focuses on games featured in the Pixel Love section of the Nitrome blog.

Looking for additional ways to help this wiki? A list of main tasks that need to be done can be found at Project:Helping out. For instance, try checking out Category:Article stubs for a list of short articles that require expansion.

I hope you enjoy your time here. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message on my talk page (link to admin's talk page). (sign admin)

It's a work in progress obviously, but here's something to help you start. Anything in (parentheses) is a note that won't be included in the final welcome message.

My only issue is that it might be too geared towards new users. Some users might have previously edited on a different wiki and would understand the basics on how to edit, which is why I collapsed the help section into a table. I'm also not sure about where and how we should be mentioning the wiki's policy, since it is very important users get acquainted with it, but at the same time, not be turned off by it.

I'm tentative about linking the sister wikis, but it might help to emphasise that we do have a wiki for fanart, and that the fanart needs to be hosted on Nitrome Fanfiction Wiki. And since we did consider the Pixel Love Wiki to be a sister wiki to Nitrome Wiki, it would make sense to list that as well. 06:17, May 27, 2014 (UTC)