Template:Welcome kitten

Welcome!

Hello, Welcome kitten, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay and continue to contribute to Wikipedia. Below are some pages you might find helpful:

• Introduction
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• How to write a great article
• Simplified Manual of Style
• Your first article
• Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community
• Feel free to make test edits in the sandbox
• and check out the Task Center, for ideas about what to work on.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to leave me a message or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. We're so glad you're here! ~~~~

Tip of the day...

Displaying one page within another = Transclusion

Including the contents of a template page on a different page (by surrounding the page name with double braces, i.e. "{{}}" and leaving out the "Template:" prefix) is called transclusion.

This allows the other page to be automatically updated whenever the template page is updated.

Besides templates, pages in the following namespaces can be transcluded:

• Category:
• Help:
• Portal:
• User:
• Wikipedia:

The only difference between transcluding these and templates is that you must include the prefix (followed by a colon) with the page's name inside the double braces.

Images also can be transcluded, but this is done using double square brackets instead of braces.

Here are some examples of transclusion:

{{Pic of the day}} · {{Help:Contents}} · [[Image:Wikipedia-logo.png]]

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Read more:

Wikipedia:Transclusion  

Become a Wikipedia tipster

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}

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Usage

This welcome template is the Welcoming committee's most warm and personable greeting.
To put this message on a new user's talk page, use:

{{subst:Welcome kitten}}

This template also supports |nosig=yes to suppress the automatic signature and |1= for a custom message.

See also

• {{Welcome}}
• {{Welcome-personal}}
• {{Welcome cookie}}
• {{Welcome kitty}} (which uses a different cat photo)
• Wikipedia:Welcoming committee

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Welcome kitten/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.