Extension:NewUserMessage

Usually after a new user registers on a MediaWiki, the message in MediaWiki:welcomecreation is displayed. This extensions allows a message in a specified template to be added into the new users talk page instead.

Installation
Copy the source code from below or from OrganicDesign:Extension:NewUserMessage.php and save in your extensions directory. Add an include statement into your LocalSettings.php file to include the file for example:

Usage
The template that will be transcluded into the new users talk page is MediaWiki:NewUserMessage. If you'd like to change this, set it in the $wgNewUserMessageTemplate global variable and should be set after the include statement in your LocalSettings.php file. The template added to the talk page is called with one parameter which is the users name.

Example NewUserMessage page
A very simple example of the page you should create as MediaWiki:NewUserMessage:

Hello
Welcome to our Wiki

Code
This is extension is maintained at OrganicDesign:Extension:NewUserMessage.php, so you may like to check there to see if a more recent version is available.