[Commons-l] PLEASE HELP the Welcome log

Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 08:10:15 UTC 2006


Brianna Laugher wrote:
> On 11/07/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since the welcome template is entirely non-personal, why not get someone to
>> design a bot to do this job? Within minutes of a user signing up a message
>> could be left by the bot so giving them some introductory information. It is
>> preferable that the bot have some inbuilt delay between signup and message
>> so that the user can see the message pop-up after a few minutes editing.
> 
> A bot *does* do this job.... I am not asking people to welcome users.
> I am asking them to check the user's uploads.
> 
> The bot only welcomes new users after they have made at least one edit
> or one upload.
> 

Can we ask the operator of the bot to check the New User Log instead?

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