Draft / Welcome page

I was speaking with Katherine today about how it might be useful to have a welcome page for people new to Wikimedia UK. It would be linked from the home page, and possibly in the left hand navigation. It would include key details about us, about what we do, about how to get in touch, about how to start editing... all sorts of useful information.

If you have any ideas on what you think would be useful (or what would have been useful to you when you were a newbie) please post them here. I'll then prepare a draft page for us to work on together. Thanks for any help! --Stevie Benton (WMUK) (talk) 16:25, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Welcome Template

I suggest we update our version of the welcome template. i.e. this one

Hello Draft ! Welcome to the website of Wikimedia UK, the UK chapter of Wikimedia. To find out more about us, please take a look at the Main Page, and help and advice for editors (particularly those inbound from WMF projects such as Wikipedia) can be found at Help:Contents. If you haven't already, please consider joining us and getting involved with some of our activities or, if you lack the time, donating instead. If you have any questions, please let me know. Victuallers (talk) 16:33, 16 August 2012 (UTC)