Allow welcome notification to optionally have a link target
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[Resolved] Copying https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-November/001290.html here, because Tech/News links here.

The welcome notification[1] shown to new users previously did not link anywhere, and just had some text which was not super useful. With the upcoming deployment of 1.27.0-wmf.7, administrators can put the page the notification should link to in the page "MediaWiki:notification-welcome-link" on your wiki. For example, on mediawiki.org, our welcome/intro page is [2], so I created [3] with the text "Special:MyLanguage/How to contribute".

This is customizable per-wiki because each wiki tends to have their welcome pages in different locations.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Echo_welcome_notification_screenshot.png
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/How_to_contribute
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Notification-welcome-link

Original task description:

Right now the welcome notification does not have any link targets. Roan suggested that we could have an optional i18n message that would contain a page name of where the user should be sent.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Allow welcome notifications to have a primary link	mediawiki/extensions/Echo	master	+18 -1

Customize query in gerrit

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Legoktm created this task.Nov 2 2015, 11:58 PM

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Change 252853 had a related patch set uploaded (by Legoktm):
Allow welcome notifications to have a primary link

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/252853

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Change 252853 merged by jenkins-bot:
Allow welcome notifications to have a primary link

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/252853

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Johan moved this task from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.Nov 13 2015, 8:26 PM

Once this is deployed, communities will be able to specify the link target by editing [[MediaWiki:notification-welcome-link]] (which is expected to be a page name, not a URL)