Thread:The S/@comment-20644-20131115184901

Hi there. I'm Brandon, a Community Support Manager here at Wikia. In case you haven't noticed, there's been an issue here where Wikia Staff members are welcoming new users with the automatic welcome message, even though there are active admins (staff should only be auto-welcoming when the admins have been inactive for at least 60 days). We suspect this was because MediaWiki:Welcome-user included @latest and @sysop, which are the prompts to decide how users should be welcomed. Only one of those should be included, rather than both, and including both makes the welcome tool prone to mistakes. I've gone ahead and removed @sysop, which will hopefully mean staff won't be welcoming people anymore. Instead, it will just be the most recently active admin.

If you have any questions about this, feel free to let me know. Thanks! 