Extension:NewUserMessage

MediaWiki extensions manual

NewUserMessage Release status: stable
Implementation	User activity , Hook
Description	Add a message to newly created user's talk pages
Author(s)	Aran Dunkley Siebrand Mazeland
Latest version	3.6.0 (2016-10-31)
MediaWiki	1.36+
PHP	7.3+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Download Git master browse repository (Phabricator · GitHub) commit history repository contributors (GitHub) code review
Parameters $wgNewUserMessageOnAutoCreate $wgNewUserSuppressRC $wgNewUserMinorEdit
Hooks used LocalUserCreated UserGetReservedNames
Quarterly downloads	22 (Ranked 111st)
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Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug

The NewUserMessage extension adds a message to the talk pages of newly created wiki accounts.

Usually after a new user registers on a wiki powered by MediaWiki, the message in MediaWiki:Welcomecreation is displayed. This extension allows a message in a specified template to be added into the new user's talk page instead.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted NewUserMessage folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/NewUserMessage
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'NewUserMessage' );
  

• Configure as required
•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

Global variables

There are some global variables which affect the operation of the extension. These should be set in your LocalSettings file after the require_once of the NewUserMessage.php script.

Variable	Default value	Meaning
$wgNewUserSuppressRC	false	Specify whether or not the new user message creation should show up in recent changes. If set to true, those edits won't be displayed even if "show bot edits" is selected on RecentChanges or Watchlist.
$wgNewUserMinorEdit	true	Should the new user message creation be a minor edit?
$wgNewUserMessageOnAutoCreate	false	Should auto creation (CentralAuth) trigger a new user message?

In-wiki configuration

Other settings of the extension can be made in the MediaWiki: namespace.

Page title	Default value	Meaning
MediaWiki:Newusermessage-template	Template:Welcome	Specify a template to wrap the new user message within. You can create translations (e.g. MediaWiki:Newusermessage-template/es) that will be used when the registered user has set a different interface language on registration (this is possible through &uselang parameter or more easily through login language links). Used as a fallback when MediaWiki:Newusermessage-template-body is not set.
MediaWiki:Newusermessage-template-subject	Template:Welcome-subject	Specify a template to wrap the new user message thread subject within. Always preprocessed and substituted by the parser.
MediaWiki:Newusermessage-template-body	Template:Welcome-body	Specify a template to wrap the new user message thread body within.
MediaWiki:Newuseredit-summary	Adding [[Template:Welcome|welcome message]] to new user's talk page	Edit summary for the recent changes entry of a new users message. Always in content language.
MediaWiki:Newusermessage-editor	New user message	Set the username of the user that makes the edit on user talk pages. If this user does not exist, "MediaWiki default" will show up as editing user. The user set here is marked as reserved and won't be able to login!
MediaWiki:Newusermessage-signatures	none	Optional feature. if it exists and contains a list of user names (* signature newline * etc…), these user names will be added after the template (randomly) along with the date and time.
MediaWiki:Newusermessage-substitute‎	none	Optional feature. If the page exists and contains any text (but spaces or a single dash ("-")), the welcome template will be substituted in the talk page.

Note that these items are articles, to edit them go to the article in your browser and edit the text accordingly.

Example NewUserMessage page

A very simple example of the page you should create as Template:Welcome:

== Welcome to our Wiki ==

Hello {{{name}}} ...

Template parameters

• |name= - User name
• |realName= - Real name (can be empty)

See also

• Extension:Create User Page - checks on login whether the user has a user page and, if not, creates it.