Template:Welcomeen-nl
Welcome!
Hello, Welcomeen-nl, 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 Dutch; did you know there is a Wikipedia in Dutch? 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. ~~~~
Welkom bij Wikipedia
Hallo Welcomeen-nl, en welkom bij Wikipedia! Hoewel alle inspanningen om Wikipedia te verbeteren van harte welkom zijn, is het Engels van je bijdragen helaas niet goed genoeg om bruikbaar te zijn. Wellicht ben je beter op je plaats in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia dan hier. ~~~~
Template documentationThis 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 Dutch. It presents a brief welcome message in English, followed by an equivalent one in Dutch.
Usage
{{subst:Welcome-foreign|lang=xx}} # where 'xx' is a language code
{{subst:Welcome-foreign|xx}} # same as above
Parameters
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
1. Spanish
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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) 22:25, 22 February 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) 22:25, 22 February 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) 22:25, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
Wilkommen!
Hallo Welcomeen-nl und willkommen bei Wikipedia! Wir freuen uns zwar über alle Beiträge, aber leider ist das Englisch in deinem Beitrag zu fehlerhaft um wirklich hilfreich zu sein. Ich vermute, dass du Deutsch sprichst; 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 Bemühungen! |
Languages
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, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, 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
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-nl/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-nl/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.
Wrapper: Also consider creating a wrapper template for the new language; you can use Template:Welcomeen-fr as a model.
See also
- Wikipedia:Welcome templates – for welcoming registered and unregistered users
- Template:Welcome-non-Latin/Translations – could be used to import some languages here
Notes
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]