Template:Welcomeen-ko
Welcome!
[edit]Hello, Welcomeen-ko, and welcome to Wikipedia! While efforts to improve Wikipedia are always welcome, unfortunately your contributions are not written in an English that is good enough to be useful. You appear to be more familiar with Korean; did you know there is a Wikipedia in Korean? You may prefer to contribute there instead. In any case, welcome to the project, and thank you for your efforts! If you need help, please feel free to notify me on my talk page. ~~~~
환영합니다
[edit]안녕하세요, Welcomeen-ko님, 영어 위키백과에 방문하신 것을 환영합니다! 위키백과의 발전을 위해 힘써 주셔서 감사합니다. 그러나 귀하가 작성하신 내용은 영어로 쓰여지지 않았습니다. Welcomeen-ko님은 영어보다는 한국어가 익숙하지 않으신가요? 혹시 한국어 위키백과에 대해서 알고 계신가요? 여기 대신 한국어 위키백과에서 기여하는 것이 더 나을 수 있습니다. 아무쪼록 저희 프로젝트를 방문한 것에 감사드리며, Welcomeen-ko님의 기여에 감사드립니다! 도움이 필요하시다면 제 토론 문서에 글을 남겨주세요. ~~~~
Template documentation | This template should always be substituted – use {{subst:Welcomeen-ko}}. Any accidental transclusions will be automatically substituted by a bot. |
This welcome template may be used to welcome a user whose edits appear to show poor command of English (or whose edits are not in English at all) and who appear to be fluent in Korean. It presents a brief welcome message in English, followed by an equivalent one in Korean.
Usage
[edit]{{subst:Welcome-foreign|lang=xx}} # where 'xx' is a language code
{{subst:Welcome-foreign|xx}} # same as above
Parameters
[edit]There is one required parameter, the named param |lang= (alias: positional |1=):
|lang=– a language code; e.g., 'fr' for French, or 'es' for Spanish (see language code table)|1=– same as above
Examples
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Welcome!
Hello, Welcome-foreign, and welcome to Wikipedia! While efforts to improve Wikipedia are always welcome, unfortunately your contributions are not written in an English that is good enough to be useful. You appear to be more familiar with Spanish; did you know there is a Wikipedia in Spanish? You may prefer to contribute there instead. In any case, welcome to the project, and thank you for your efforts! If you need help, please feel free to notify me on my talk page. User:Example (talk) 12:23, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
¡Bienvenido(a)!
¡Hola Welcome-foreign, bienvenido(a) a Wikipedia! Si bien todos los esfuerzos para mejorar la Wikipedia son bien recibidos, desdichadamente su nivel de inglés no parece idóneo para hacer contribuciones de utilidad, o las contribuciones no estan escritas en inglés. ¿Sabía que existe una Wikipedia en español? Quizás prefiera contribuir ahí. De cualquiera forma, reciba la más cordial bienvenida a Wikipedia y nuestro agradecimiento por esforzarse. Si necesita ayuda, puede notificármelo en mi página de discusión. User:Example (talk) 12:23, 5 August 2026 (UTC) |
2. German |
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Welcome!
Hello, Welcome-foreign, and welcome to Wikipedia! While efforts to improve Wikipedia are always welcome, unfortunately your contributions are not written in an English that is good enough to be useful. You appear to be more familiar with Spanish; did you know there is a Wikipedia in Spanish? You may prefer to contribute there instead. In any case, welcome to the project, and thank you for your efforts! If you need help, please feel free to notify me on my talk page. User:Example (talk) 12:23, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
Wilkommen!
Hallo Welcomeen-ko und willkommen bei Wikipedia! Wir freuen uns zwar über alle Beiträge, aber leider sind deine Beiträge nicht in einem Englisch verfasst, das gut genug ist, um von Nutzen zu sein. Du scheinst dich besser mit Deutsch auszukennen; weißt du schon, dass es auch eine deutschsprachige Wikipedia gibt? Vielleicht möchtest du dich ja lieber dort beteiligen. Trotzdem herzlich willkommen und vielen Dank für deine Engagement! Wenn du Hilfe benötigst, kannst du mich gerne auf meiner Diskussionsseite benachrichtigen. |
Languages
[edit]The welcome will be issued in two languages: English, and the user's language, if the lang code corresponds to any of the following: Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese. (See full, up-to-date list via prefixindex or pattern search.)
If the lang code corresponds to a language not currently supported, the welcome message is issued in English only. The template may be easily expanded to include any Wikipedia language. See § Adding a new language for instructions.
Adding a new language
[edit]This template will work for any language listed in the language code table. The welcome will be issued in two languages if the lang code corresponds to a language for which a template subpage exists for that language. For example: it displays a bilingual welcome for Albanian, Chinese, Dutch, and so on, because the subpages Albanian, Chinese, and Dutch exist. It gracefully degrades to a monolingual English welcome if no subpage exists for the language.
To add a new language, simply add a new subpage with the language name from the table. In particular, the language name should correspond to the value of {{#language:xx|en}} where 'xx' is the language code (so, chr → 'Cherokee', fa → 'Persian', and so on). Translate the content of Template:Welcome-foreign/English into the new language, and save it as Template:Welcomeen-ko/NewLanguage. The template code does not need to be changed, and will pick it up automatically as soon as you publish the subpage.
Suggestion: save early versions of your translation as Template:Welcomeen-ko/NewLanguage (draft) until you're sure it's right. As soon as the file exists under the correct language name, it immediately goes live and can seen by the template.
Gendered languages: languages that use gender agreement may be accommodated in new translations using the pattern given in the wikicode at Template:Welcome-foreign/English. For example: in Spanish, the adjective bienvenido agrees in gender with the user's gender, which may be set in their preferences. A user with masculine preference will be greeted with Bienvenido (with an '-o' at the end) and users with a feminine preference will be greeted with Bienvenida ('-a' at the end). Those without a preference are greeted with the '-o' version in Spanish. The wikicode for the word 'Welcome' at Template:Welcome-foreign/Spanish is this:
{{gender:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|Bienvenido|Bienvenida|Bienvenido}}
If you are creating welcome text in a new language, you can follow the model above. If you are not comfortable with template code, just leave it out, use a neutral version (or combined version, like Bienvenido(a)) and leave an Edit request on the Template talk page asking for a template editor to adjust the content for gender agreement. Most of the messages generated using this template will handle gender issues automatically based on the gender preferences set by both users when needed.
Wrapper: Also consider creating a wrapper template for the new language; you can use Template:Welcomeen-fr as a model.
See also
[edit]- Wikipedia:Welcome templates – for welcoming registered and unregistered users
- {{uw-notenglish}} – a user warning template for users contributing content in other languages
- Template:Welcome-non-Latin/Translations – could be used to import some languages here
Notes
[edit]Wrapper templates exist for welcoming users who speak specific languages; see Category:Non-English welcome messages.
Find subst count and examples of this template on User talk pages using this advanced search.[2026; 2025; 2024]