User:Wikia (sorry, this may just be ditziness on my part)

Toughpigs said:

I'm the staff person who's working on the welcome tool. There's a lot of customization that you can do with this, so hopefully I can help you make it work the way you want it to. welcomebot

Okay, here's a question... Yesterday I changed MediaWiki:Welcome-user from "@disabled" to "@sysop @disabled".  According to the documentation, it should have stayed inactive, but it began to make postings.  Moreover, it used the signature of someone who has never edited here [1], and failed to check whether users had contributed prior to the bot's activation [2] [3].  Are these bugs?    Ryan W 03:33, September 8, 2009 (UTC)

Hi Ryan -- Yeah, you're supposed to use either "@sysop" (to have it signed by an admin) or "@disabled" (to turn it off. You used both, which I haven't seen before -- it looks like what that did was just turn it off for admins, so the welcome was signed by a staff member. The bot doesn't check whether people have contributed before the welcome tool was turned on -- it just checks to see if there's anything on the talk page, and if there isn't, it leaves a welcome.

You've turned off the welcome tool now... Is there something else you'd like to do with it that I can help you with? -- Danny<staff /> (talk) 04:56, September 8, 2009 (UTC)