Help:Preparing your Message Wall Greeting

With the new Message Wall feature that we are planning to activate shortly, the way messages to people are entered and organized happens automatically. It functions a little bit like blog comments, except that each person involved in the conversation is notified when there is an update. This is different than a user's Talk page, where they are only notified when their own Talk page is edited. It also solves the problem of keeping the conversation in one place, instead of having to go back and forth between two or more pages.

One feature of the Message Wall is to have a greeting at the top of the page. It can be used to pass on information that people need to see before they leave you a message.

Because this is seen at the top of your Message Wall, whatever you choose to put in your greeting needs to be kept fairly short so that people don't have to scroll down very far before they can see the messages. It also shouldn't contain information or pictures that would normally go on your Profile. The idea is to have something a little bit personalized that doesn't interfere or distract attention away from leaving messages.

Preparing your greeting
If you would like to prepare your greeting before the Message Wall is activated, follow these steps. Otherwise, you can wait until after it is activated and then create your greeting then.


 * 1) Create a sandbox page. It can be named anything you want, but should be in your personal workspace. An example has been created for our test account, PF Test: User:PF Test/Greeting.
 * 2) Edit the sandbox until it the way you want it. Remember, keep the information short, since this is an announcement that is seen every time someone goes to your Message Wall.
 * 3) After the Message Wall is activated, move the sandbox into your greeting area. Those are named as follows: Message Wall Greeting:your name . For the PF Test account, it will be moved to Message Wall Greeting:PF Test.

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