Hello Example! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay. You are welcome to edit anonymously; however, creating an account is free and has several benefits (for example, the ability to create pages, upload media and edit without one's IP address being visible to the public).
As you get started, you may find this short tutorial helpful:
Alternatively, the contributing to Wikipedia page covers the same topics.
If you have any questions, we have a friendly space where experienced editors can help you here:
If you are not sure where to help out, you can find a task here:
Happy editing!
To use this template, add
{{subst:Welcome-unregistered}}
~~~~to the user's talk page.
Alternative names for this template (redirects) include {{Anon}}, {{Anonymous}} and (many variants of) {{Create an account}}, {{Welcome-ip}}, etc.
For related templates, see #See Also below.
All of these parameters are optional:
|cookie=y
– adds an image of cookies: {{subst:Welcome|cookie=y}}
|heading=no
– Suppress the automatic heading: {{subst:Welcome|heading=no}}
|headtext=Greetings!
– Change the contents of the heading: {{subst:Welcome|headtext=Greetings!}}
|1=
for a custom additional message to replace "Happy editing!":{{subst:Welcome-unregistered|1=I enjoy your work. Keep it up!}}
~~~~|ipname=
for the name of the IP's collective audience:{{subst:Welcome-unregistered|ipname=Australians}}
~~~~|art=
name an article to which the anon user contributed in a positive way:{{subst:Welcome-unregistered|art=Radar detector}}
~~~~TemplateData for Welcome-unregistered
A generic welcome template for anonymous users (IP addresses). Must be substituted.