Template:Welcome-anon2/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Welcome-anon2.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:Welcome-anon2}}).

This template is used by the standard installation of Twinkle. If you are planning to make major changes to this template or nominate it for deletion, as a courtesy, please notify Twinkle's user base and maintainers at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle.

This template employs intricate features of template syntax.

You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the general Template sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.

Instructions

To greet a user with this template just as it appears above (your signature will automatically replace the ~~~~), place the following wikicode on the user's talk page:

{{subst:anon2}}

To add a message in an additional paragraph before the last sentence, use:

{{subst:anon2|message}}

Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "Happy editing!"

To add a (level-2) heading above the greeting, use:

{{subst:anon2|heading=heading text}}

The heading will be the text you replace your text with.

To change the color of the entire message, use:

{{subst:anon2|color=color}}

Replace color with one of the following choices (the default is navy blue and orange, shown above):

cyan
pink

The above options can be combined:

{{subst:anon2|Wikipedia is amazing.|heading=true|headtext=Welcome to Wikipedia}}

Related pages

{{Anon}} -- plain-text version.