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Community teams » Welcoming Committee
This community team is still in development. As we get more members and nominate a leader, this page will be filled out with more info about what we do and how we do it.
If you would like to join, leave a note here!

[top]Members

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[top]Duties

This community team welcomes new members and makes sure they know what to do and where to go when they join - works closely with the Help Team.

[top]Deciding Who to Welcome

It would be simple just to welcome every new user, but some of the new users are vandals or spam bots, so we want to be a little bit careful about screening who we welcome.
;Basic criteria for who to welcome:
  • More than one contribution with at least one significant contribution (a few lines of text).
    • More than just adding stat numbers, a few external links (sometimes these are self-serving to get traffic to their sites), or spelling and minor editing corrections.
    • Contributions to shared articles and not just player, guild or server pages.

  • No vandals or spammers.

[top]Specific Tasks

Very easy.
  • Put either the {{welcome}} or {{
    subst
    :signedwelcome|}}
    on a new user's  discussion  page.
    • You might want to take a quick scan of the known vandals list and their recent contributions to make sure you're not welcoming vandals.

  • Answer quick questions left on your  discussion  page or direct them to another community team.
  • Refer users to an admin for the really tough issues.
  • Optional: If you have time, help notify people who were welcomed by inactive WelComm members that WelComm is still around.

Don't hesitate to ask WelComm leader questions.

[top]Worklog

Tasks this team is working on:
  • Pick a new leader. --Arjan
  • Work on Welcomed list. --Arjan

Done:
  • Pinged those who want to join to make sure they're still interested. --Arjan
  • Current committee members haven't contributed recently, but have been pinged. --Arjan
  • Updated standard {{welcome}} template. --Arjan
  • Made new {{signedwelcome}} template so you can leave your user name. --Arjan
  • Got committee members to use the new templates. --Arjan

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