Board Thread:Dark Assembly/@comment-653063-20150316021833/@comment-653063-20150316203434

''How do I set up the welcome thinger? No one tells me these things.'' - ikr? I'd not even heard of it until I started looking at Spotlight stuff. Sometimes I'm tempted to go to Community.Wikia and pretend I know nothing and start at the beginning of the 'how to Wikia' things, read through them and see what holes in my knowledge get filled X D

auto-welcome thinger - http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Welcome_tool - this page says stuff. looks like...
 * http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-user - make this say @latest
 * http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-enabled - make this say page-user message-anon message-user
 * http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-bot-flag - for now, make it be a - dash instead of @bot, just so we can see that its working... we can '@bot' it again later.
 * http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user - this is the msg that gets posted to people who already have usernames.. if it were me, I would just add   between the 2-equals-Welcome and the first line of text, and delete the 'hi, welcome to sitename' part. I thiiiink that will make it substitute in the template, when the bot does it stuff.
 * http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anon - IMO what's there is fine for now.

so lots of pages, but not a lot of changes in each page or anything.

ok so, image. let me... see what i can do... with Paint... lulz.... X D afk, brb...

Edit: oh - http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Page_protection - "Semi-protection" is apparently acceptable, but they don't want 'full protection' on the main page.

I'm failing with Paint (mostly in that it doesn't recognize transparency). What if we just have them use http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/File:Spotlight-disgaea-wiki-mar2015-d5-230x110.jpg - I found an English logo, apparently it was released about a month ago. Crop&resize.

Ok so, once the auto-welcomer is set up, I think we're good to go. I'll start formatting the app so I can post it as soon as the tool is active. Wewt. I hope this works out well for us, haha X D!