User:SPage (WMF)

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welcomecreation -> welcomecreation-msg change
(see wikitech-l mailing list thread of December 4, 2012)

made the title of the page you see on account creation "Welcome, Username". To make this fix I split the welcomecreation message into two messages:
 * welcomeuser
 * 'Welcome, $1!' &mdash; the new title of the page


 * welcomecreation-msg
 * "'Your account has been created. Do not forget to change your preferences.'

and this change is live on WMF wikis running 1.21wmf5.

The subpage /welcomecreation messages lists all these messages that exist (on 205 wikis!)

I suspect some of these messages may replicate what's already in the default message.
 * welcomeuser translations on TranslateWiki
 * welcomecreation-msgwelcomeuser translations on TranslateWiki

On wikis that have customized the MediaWiki:welcomecreation message and want to preserve the customization, an admin may need to
 * 1) move it to MediaWiki:welcomecreation-msg (without leaving a redirect)
 * 2) remove the "== Welcome, $1==" heading line from welcomecreation-msg
 * 3) log out and create a dummy account to see if it works

IRC cloak request
This IRC/Cloaks stuff is quite obscure. I'm spagewmf on IRC, somehow this can make me appear as ~spage@wikimedia/spage ??