Editing Template talk:Welcome (section)

== Additional source of suggested edits: the user Homepage ==

Besides the tasks listed at the Task Center, there is another source of suggested edits now that the [[WP:Growth team]] has rolled out the [[mw:Growth/Feature_summary#NH|Newcomer homepage]] feature. All registered users now have the user homepage enabled by default. (Senior editors may not see it; you can enable it in your Preferences). The top module (they call each boxed section on the Homepage a "module") is the "[[mw:Growth/Feature_summary#NT|suggested edits module]]", and this is a source of suggested edits aimed specifically at newcomers. This is probably something that should be mentioned, and it is probably more useful than the Task Center link for most new users receiving a welcome. I would suggest upgrading the Task Center line accordingly, something like this:
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  |1=If you are not sure where to help out, you can find a task here:
  |2=<nowiki>If you are not sure where to help out, try the "Suggested edits" module top left on [[Special:Homepage|your homepage]], or you can always find a task here:</nowiki>
}}
With the Task Center button right after it. Thanks, [[User:Mathglot|Mathglot]] ([[User talk:Mathglot|talk]]) 09:55, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
: For the last few years, newbies are assigned a [[WP:User homepage|User homepage]] and a [[WP:Mentorship|mentor]], and the current practice is to find suggested edits in the Suggested Edits module on their Homepage. The current (recently modified) text adds a clause about their User homepage Suggested Edits, while leaving the button pointing to the Task Center alone. However, it is not at all clear that we should be sending newbies to the Task Center anymore, certainly not with the implied prominence of a button dedicated to it. Probably the button should be reassigned to the Homepage Suggested Edits module, and the Task Center (if mentioned at all, and for newbies, I wouldn't bother) should be in plain text, and not a button. [[User:Mathglot|Mathglot]] ([[User talk:Mathglot|talk]]) 11:03, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
::On behalf of the Growth team (who works on the homepage and related features), we're encouraged to see this!
::On a more personal level (as a volunteer, I was the one who added the Task Center link many years ago), I agree that the homepage is probably a better default place to point newcomers looking for tasks these days. <span style="border:3px outset;border-radius:8pt 0;padding:1px 5px;background:linear-gradient(6rad,#86c,#2b9)">[[User:Sdkb-WMF|<span style="color:#FFF;text-decoration:inherit;">Sdkb‑WMF</span>]]</span> <sup>[[User talk:Sdkb-WMF|'''talk''']]</sup> 18:05, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
:::One other note: @[[User:AAlhazwani (WMF)|AAlhazwani (WMF)]] points out that "top left" applies only on desktop, not on mobile. <span style="border:3px outset;border-radius:8pt 0;padding:1px 5px;background:linear-gradient(6rad,#86c,#2b9)">[[User:Sdkb-WMF|<span style="color:#FFF;text-decoration:inherit;">Sdkb‑WMF</span>]]</span> <sup>[[User talk:Sdkb-WMF|'''talk''']]</sup> 21:08, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
:::: Oh, very good point, thanks for that. Assuming that just ''top module'' would do, for mobile users. (There is also a ''bottom right'' wording that needs adjustment on another template.) Thanks for the heads-up! An interesting technical issue is involved: the template is substed, but we probably want to preserve the '#if' in this case (so the welcomed user can view the message either on desktop or mobile), so an intentional lack of safesubst protection on the #if should do it, so that everything else is substed *except* for that one case; interesting issue. [[User:Mathglot|Mathglot]] ([[User talk:Mathglot|talk]]) 21:17, 7 January 2026 (UTC)