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This is a list of templates available from the Welcoming committee for greeting new users. Anyone may use these templates for greeting a new user on their Talk page. For a visual display of the actual templates in table form, see the Template gallery. For assistance in finding new users, see this page.
Use these for a user who recently registered a username. All of the templates below can be customized with an additional message, a picture of a plate of cookies, a colored border, icons, or a different opening text.
All of these encourage creating an account, unless otherwise noted.
For any temp account:
For those who have helped in specific areas:
For users who have:
Use one of these to greet new users interested in a particular topic:
Used for a user who is creating or editing articles in poor English, and whose native language is known or can be guessed with reasonable confidence. (If the user has been writing articles in another language, one of the templates on Category:Non-English user warning templates should be used instead.)
Use this template to welcome the user, substituting in the language code, such as 'fr' for French, or 'de' for German:
The welcome will be issued in two languages: English, and the user's language, if the lang code corresponds to any of the following: Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Oromo, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese. (See full, up-to-date list via prefixindex or pattern search.)
If the lang code corresponds to a language not currently supported, the welcome message is issued in English only. The template may be easily expanded to include any Wikipedia language. See § Adding a new language for instructions.
Anyone can create their own welcome template and use them, and quite a few users have. These user-hosted templates may be used by anyone. For a non-exhaustive list of user-hosted Welcome templates, see User-hosted tempates.
Not strictly a "new user" welcome (more like, a "don't go" template, or "welcome to independent editing"), retention templates are geared towards editor retention, that is, keeping editors active at Wikipedia who might otherwise leave.