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I got this idea after seeing the number of users who don’t make a single contribution and leave right after joining. Maybe about 20-30 minutes after the welcomebot, another welcomebot could say something more interactive to the user if they made edits. For example, something like-

Hi {{BASEPAGENAME}}! Welcome to wikiHow- how are you liking it so far?

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Thanks for your edit on [[title of article they recently edited]]- that’s great you’re helping out! Many new users don’t get as far!<br>Thanks again, and feel free to ask me any questions you have on [[User_talk:nameofuser#post|my talk page!]].

Also, if they try a tool on the community dashboard (like question approval) but don’t make any contributions, maybe there could be an automatic message for that too? Also, only 2 auto-messages per user. What does everybody else think?

EDIT: Also, one more idea, I think users that have done a lot of work on the dashboard that doesn’t include contributions should go in the welcome wagon…

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I’m not sure this would encourage users to stick around - I think it might actually risk overwhelming them. We don’t want to flood users with information too soon after they sign up - that’s why users don’t go into Welcome Wagon as soon as they make a contribution. Plus, we want to have a personal touch to everything (like with Welcome Wagon), rather than making a bunch of stuff automated by bots. WelcomeBot is more there so that brand new users can get the info they might need:slight_smile:

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Ok, I get your point. That does make sense.

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Isn’t this “second message” the whole reason why there are Welcome Wagon users? I do recall something along those lines when Welcome Wagon started in 2013!

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Oh right. I guess this isn’t a good way to do this compared to the way it is now :). 

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I remember Wikipedia gives notifications for edits 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, etc.  If they did the same for wikiHow, then it would provide an incentive to continue.

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The goal’s not to provide an “incentive to continue”, though - people should be contributing because they want to, and not because they’re trying to earn arbitrary achievements. Plus, the focus should be on quality over quantity. And personally, I like the little surprise of not realizing just how much I’ve done until I check my User page:slight_smile: