A key part of having an active, effective project or task force is increasing the member size. Here's some information on inviting members.
- Look for members who have contributed to California related topics. They can be high-profile topics, such as San Francisco, or low-profile like a local school, street, etc. You can also find them new articles at User:AlexNewArtBot/CaliforniaSearchResult.
- Check the history log to see what sort of contributions users have made.
- Go to talk pages. Users who comment on talk pages are more likely to be significant contributors. You can confirm this by checking their list of contributions.
- Look for members who live in California. This may be indicated on their user page. You can also check categories such as Category:Wikipedians in California.
Once you've found a member you wish to invite, start a new section on their take page and add the template using the substitution syntax, as shown here, which produces the generic template as it appears at the top of this page.
Task force invitations
To invite them to the project at-large, or to a particular task force using
- {{subst:Cal Invitation/sfba}}
- San Francisco Bay Area task force
- {{subst:Cal Invitation/socal}}
- Southern California task force
Hi, I noticed your contributions and thought you might be interested in joining WikiProject California, including the Southern California Task Force.
If you are interested in California-related themes, you may want to check out the California Portal.
If you are interested in contributing more to California or Southern California related articles you may want to join WikiProject California, especially the Southern California task force (signup here). ~~~~
- {{subst:Cal Invitation/ie}}
- Inland Empire task force
Hi, I noticed your contributions and thought you might be interested in joining WikiProject California, including the Inland Empire Task Force.
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If you are interested in California-related themes, you may want to check out the California Portal.
If you are interested in contributing more to California or Inland Empire related articles you may want to join WikiProject California, especially the Inland Empire task force (signup here). ~~~~
- {{subst:Cal Invitation/la}}
- Los Angeles task force
Hi, I noticed your contributions and thought you might be interested in joining WikiProject California, including the Los Angeles Task Force.
If you are interested in California-related themes, you may want to check out the California Portal.
If you are interested in contributing more to California or Los Angeles related articles you may want to join WikiProject California, especially the Los Angeles task force (signup here). ~~~~
- {{subst:Cal Invitation/calstate}}
- California State University task force
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Hi! I noticed your contributions and thought you would be a great addition to the California State University task force over at WikiProject California. Please consider this your personal invitation to join; if you're interested, you can signup here! We currently have 1173 articles under our task force and would appreciate any assistance, large or small, with getting them to good article status. (We've got 18 there so far!) Whether you decide to join or not, thank you for everything you've already done to make Wikipedia better, and oh yeah...GO STATE! |
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Personalizing the invitation
You can specify an article they have contributed to significantly using {{subst:Cal Invitation|article=San Francisco}}, which alters the template's output as such:
Once the user has joined, make sure you make them feel welcome. All new members should receive a {{subst:Cal Greeting}} on their talk pages.
Displays a banner that compliments the editor on their work on California-related articles (optionally, citing one specifically) and invites them to join WikiProject California or one of its constituent task forces, automatically including the inviting user's signature
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page invitee worked on | art article | The name of the article where you noticed the user's work, used to personalize the invitation
| Page name | suggested |
| Prevent auto-substitution | demo nosubst | Set this value to 'yes' when calling this template on documentation pages or elsewhere only as an example of how to use it, so the auto-subst bot leaves it alone.
| Boolean | optional |