FlightGear wiki:Village pump: Difference between revisions

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:: If you mean as in automatically creating a user discussion page and adding the welcome template?  Though it would probably be a good idea, as likely no one will be left without a welcome, it kind of feels better if it is done by a being of flesh and blood than if it was done by a bot.  Consider me undecided. ;-)
:: If you mean as in automatically creating a user discussion page and adding the welcome template?  Though it would probably be a good idea, as likely no one will be left without a welcome, it kind of feels better if it is done by a being of flesh and blood than if it was done by a bot.  Consider me undecided. ;-)
:: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 18:13, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 18:13, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::: It is a worry that the automation will not seem personal.  However I just counted the [[Special:Log/newusers|new user registrations]] from 17/04/2018 to 17/04/2019.  There are 113 registrations!  Maybe 5% are not bots, but identifying these is hard.  I think it will be too overwhelming for any individual to manually do this.
::: [[User:Bugman|Bugman]] ([[User talk:Bugman|talk]]) 01:43, 18 April 2019 (EDT)