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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.

template name list
all 		tally
(2025-9-2) 		notes
{{Welcome}} search 592,966
{{Welcome to Wikipedia}} search 0
{{W-graphical}} search 60,524
{{W-basic}} search 10 [a]
{{Welcome-unregistered}} search 11,804
{{Welcome-t}} search 7,316
{{Welcome graphical}} search 248,235 [b]
{{Welcome-belated}} search 13,350
{{Welcome screen}} search 464
{{Mentor welcome}} search 0 [a]
{{Welcome-retro}} search 11,006
{{WelcomeMenu}} search 135,320
{{Welcometest}} search 19,439
{{Welcome student}} search 8,028
{{Welcome-vandalism-fighter}} search 47
{{WelcomeVisual}} search 0 [a]
{{WelcomeUser}} search 0 [a]

General

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To view and compare the appearance of the templates in this section, see WP:WCG#General welcome messages templates.

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

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text only

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text + image

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short

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graphical

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To view and compare the appearance of the templates in this section, see WP:WCG#Graphical templates.

Specialized

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To view and compare the appearance of the templates in this section, see WP:WCG#Specialized welcome messages templates.

Students and teachers

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Further information: Wikipedia:Education program and Category:Wikiedu.org course templates
See also: WP:Education program/Students, WP:Student assignments, and WP:Education program/Educators
  • {{subst:Welcome student|article}} ~~~~ → for editors who seem to be students editing Wikipedia as part of their course assignment
  • {{subst:Welcome teacher|article}} ~~~~ → for editors who seem to be course instructors having their students edit Wikipedia as part of some assignment
  • {{subst:First school article|Article}} ~~~~ → problematic new school article for editors who seem to be students.

Unregistered users

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To view and compare the appearance of the templates in this section, see WP:WCG#Unregistered templates.

All of these encourage creating an account, unless otherwise noted.

Legend: Q = includes a link to WP:Questions; T = WP:Tea house; A = WP:Adventure; H = {{Helpme}}; C = WP:Task Center.

Neutral or positive

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For any anon:

short

For those who have helped in specific areas:

Improvement needed or problematic

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To view and compare the appearance of the templates in this section, see WP:WCG#Potential problem users templates.

For users who have:

Topic-specific

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To view and compare the appearance of the templates in this section, see WP:WCG#Topic-specific templates.

Use one of these to greet new users interested in a particular topic:

Countries and regions

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Topics

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With advice or warning

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These are welcome messages which also include advice about something the user did contrary to guidelines or policy, as one might see in one of the warning templates, but in a less bitey fashion. To view and compare the appearance of the templates in this section, see WP:WCG#Potential problem users templates.

Non-English

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Shortcut

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, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.

If the lang code corresponds to a language not shown above, the welcome message is issued in English only. Text for any language with a Wikipedia project may be easily added to a subpage, and the template will pick it up automatically; see the /doc page for instructions.

User-hosted

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Further information: WP:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates/User-hosted

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

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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.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d token added 2 Sept 2025
  2. ^ token fixed 7 Sept 2025 (was:'Welcomeg')
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