Extension talk:NewUserMessage

Latest comment: 3 months ago by Derek Jones Smr in topic Message to the user's email

Usage edit

This extension works very well, but ...

It might seem obvious to more experienced users, but it took me a while how to work out how to use the name parameter in the MediaWiki:NewUserMessage page (embarrassed smile here!)

I have only used named parameters before so thought adding {{{name}}} would add the users name to the output but it has to be {{{1}}}.

I will add an example MediaWiki:NewUserMessage page to the Usage section to show this.

BrillyuntWebby 19:39, 15 November 2007 (UTC)Reply


How do you insert the user's real name. edit

I created a template 'NewUserWelcome' and call that template on NewUserMessage article.

But instead of seeing user's real name all I see i {{{1}}} in the user's talk page.


How to insert into the User Page instead of user talk page? edit

Thanks! edit

Thanks for this extension, It really helps me out. I am... well lets just say I am a noob in the wiki world still, but this was pretty easy to install and to use. Thanks again =) --82.170.65.121 15:14, 29 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Bot in Recent Changes edit

Hi I have set a bot as $wgNewUserMessageEditor = 'XX'; but still the change shows up in Recent Changes. All other changes by the bot do corretly not show up.
Maybe cos I have changed the message to be added to UserPage? Line 42: $talk = $user->getUserPage();
Any idea? --Subfader 13:44, 12 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

I'm not quite sure what you mean here? how does the bot fit in with NewUserMessage? I've added a global into the code called $wgNewUserSupressRC to allow you to supress the new user messages from showin up in recent changes. --Nad 21:49, 12 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Thanks that works fine now. --Subfader 05:23, 13 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Request to enable on Wikimedia edit

Just an FYI: See bugzilla:14311. Siebrand 14:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for keeping me in the loop :-) --Nad 21:12, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Why no support of insertion into User Page edit

Is there any reason why this extension does not support filling the User Page instead of the User Talk Page with the provided template? I just hacked the extension by replacing $user->getTalkPage() by $user->getUserPage() and it seems to work, but I haven't thoroughly tested it yet.

Any comments or arguments why this might be a bad idea? - LosWochos 11:38, 20 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Yeah i'd like something like this as well, or be able to leave multiple messages on different pages. --119.194.128.193 08:23, 14 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
I'd also be interested in being able to automatically create and insert something into the User Page instead of the User Talk Page (Discussion). SubtleAphex (talk) 15:56, 29 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Doesn't work on 1.17, breaks API edit

I installed this extension sometime last week. I am current developing MediaWiki bot in PHP. It works before, now I am rewriting it in Ruby. I am keep getting Illegal errors when logging in. I spent 10 hours debugging my bot and found nothing. Finally I found is this extension that's doing it and I disabled it. Is there a bug??

Major error message, extension does not work. edit

Of late I've been getting the following error message, which ties to this extension:

Fatal error: Call to a member function isLoggedIn() on a non-object in /home/kitsufo/public_html/cosc/extensions/NewUserMessage/NewUserMessage.class.php on line 26

I use mediawiki 1.16.0 and extension version 3.1 .

Kitsufox 13:57, 23 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Illegal login errors edit

MW 1.22.3, tracked down random problem to this extension. "You have not specified a valid username" when logging in with perfectly valid account. Nb. the error when account doesn't exist or password is wrong is different, and from a brief search this message appears as though it should relate to account creation not log-in.

How do I customize the username it uses? edit

How do I customize the username it uses?

Your help will be appreciated. --72.48.68.94 13:16, 20 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

You can edit the message MediaWiki:newusermessage-editor on your wiki. --Nemo 09:49, 18 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Curly brackets in message edit

Our users are seeing {{ at the beginning of our welcome message, despite our MediaWiki:Newusermessage-template not having these brackets... Help? Thanks! Brettz9 (talk) 13:13, 23 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Unwanted parameters and signature edit

Hi. I own a wiki hosted on Miraheze. I activated this extension, but it always includes realName= and name= perameters in the template, as well as a New user message signature, which I don't want. How do I remove these things? When a new user is created, I just want {{welcome}} to be added to the talk page. More information:

Gfdgsgxgzgdrc (talk) 22:31, 20 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

Does anyone know how to fix it? Gfdgsgxgzgdrc (talk) 00:58, 23 October 2019 (UTC)Reply
Sorry to keep bumping this discussion. I feel like I've tried every option, and I can't figure out how to make it put just {{welcome}} on the talk page. Gfdgsgxgzgdrc (talk) 04:06, 25 October 2019 (UTC)Reply
Never mind. I'll try to figure it out. Gfdgsgxgzgdrc (talk) 23:57, 30 October 2019 (UTC)Reply
Okay, I can't figure it out. Can anyone help? Gfdgsgxgzgdrc (talk) 05:03, 28 December 2019 (UTC)Reply
I'm sorry for constantly bumping this thread (or whatever it's called). It's just really annoying. I added this extension so I wouldn't have to edit new talk pages, but now I still have to remove the template's parameters and the signature at the end every time. Gfdgsgxgzgdrc (talk) 23:20, 29 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

Not Working with StructuredDiscussions? edit

Hey Guys,

i have Extension:StructuredDiscussions and the Extension:NewUserMessage installed. If an user do register in my wiki, i can see in the recent changes there was made a comment made from "New user message" and when i take a look on it, there is no new message. Its seems because of StructuredDiscussions. Is there a way to get this two work together? Yukii (talk) 11:43, 22 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

I also almost face this problem
After the new user registers, a blank page is created in the discussion message and cannot be deleted. This means that the talk page will not be deleted
[9ce5c139071d195f2edb0f65] 2021-08-13 16:54:12: استثنای مخرب از نوع «Error» Sokote zaman (talk) 16:54, 13 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

Message to the user's email edit

How can I send this message to the user's email when manually registering a new one? Derek Jones Smr (talk) 15:59, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Return to "NewUserMessage" page.