Wikitravel Shared:Welcome message

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When new Wikitravellers set up a user account and make a new user page, it can be nice to welcome them onto the site with a brief welcome message. This has the dual benefit of letting them know that we want their help and shared knowledge, as well as giving some good starting points for learning how to be the best darn contributor ever.

Anyone can welcome new users to the site, and they can use whatever text they want. The following Wiki markup has most of the important starter links in it, however, and makes a good standard welcome message.

Hello!

[[Wikitravel_Shared:Welcome, newcomers|Welcome]] to Wikitravel Shared! If you want to specialize your experience you may want to consider [[Special:preferences|editing your preferences]]. Before uploading please take a second to read over the [[Wikitravel_Shared:copyleft|copyleft]], [[Wikitravel_Shared:policies and guidelines|policies and guidelines]], and the [[Wikitravel_Shared:Image_policy|image policy]] but feel free to [[Wikitravel_Shared:How to upload files|upload travel images]]. If you need help, check out [[Wikitravel_Shared:Help|help desk]], and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the [[Wikitravel_Shared:Travellers'_pub|travellers' pub]]. -- ~~~~

You should be able to copy and paste that into someone's user talk page. It's nice to personalize it, though!