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.
standard buttons + text
{{subst:Welcome}} → standard 3-button template: Learn, Get Help, Volunteer; manual signing required.
These templates are intended for users who have received a low-level warning template but no welcome message. Even if they engaged in intentional mischief, these brief welcome templates attempt to pivot the user into becoming a productive editor.
{{subst:Welcome pivot}} ~~~~ brief message with a couple of links; adds a homepage mentor module link if you are their mentor
{{subst:Welcome pivot brief}} ~~~~ very brief message with one help link; adds a homepage mentor module link if you are their mentor
{{subst:Welcome-belated}} → for users who have been editing for a while but never received a standardized welcome message. Includes plate of cookies image; includes auto-sig.
{{subst:Welcome-copyright}}~~~~ → with additional discussion of copyright policies, use when a new user's initial contributions seem to consist solely of inserting a block of copyrighted text.
{{subst:Welcome-first-article|article}} → for new users whose first article has been deleted or Afd'd; with autosign.
{{subst:Welcome-LLM}}~~~~ → A welcome message with a notice about using LLMs for editing.
{{subst:Welcome-non-latin}}~~~~ → similar to {{subst:welcome-retro}}, with a section for users with a non-Latin alphabet username, and 25 links to translated versions of this message.
{{subst:Welcome-spam}}~~~~ → with additional discussion of anti-spamming policies, use when a new user's initial contributions seem to consist solely of spamming external links.
{{subst:Welcome-suboptimal}} → for users whose edits were intended to be constructive, but had to be reverted for some reason; with autosign.
{{subst:Welcome-translation}} → with additional discussion regarding unattributed translations from another Wikipedia
{{subst:Welcome-unconstructive}} → for users who have vandalized a page or had their first edits reverted as unconstructive; with autosign.
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:
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.
Editor retention
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.
↑Total as of 2024-12-07 and frozen at that value forever. Redirected to Welcome-graphical on that date; year links after that date will return 0 results. Total shown is for the original Welcomeg tempate prior to redirection.
↑Hidden template id is missing; count shown and link are hacks to try to isolate this template, but the value may be high if other templates match the pattern, or low if this template was changed over the years and didn't use to match it.
↑Hack: pattern is an unsubsted subst-expression within a hidden tag.
12Has the proper hidden template id, but there is extra material between the id and the user sig that blocks the pattern, so year links are not possible.
12A zero value does not necessarily mean the template was never substed; there could be a missing or problematic hidden template id.