Thread:Foman123/@comment-3974095-20140813182615/@comment-116693-20140813195254

Thanks for that. And you're right - we did indeed disable it a couple of years ago. We had a similar message with links to policies, etc., in place, and It was obviously apparent that nobody was reading the links we were providing (I think this is a common issue across all wikis, even Wikipedia, which is why they don't do it anymore either). Combine that with the fact that every time the welcome message is sent I get a notification, and it's more of an annoyance than anything else. Instead, we opted to make all of our policies very visible from both the front page and the top nav bar accessible from every page. We also link to the policies as often as possible when correcting edits :-)

I'll discuss with T3CHNOCIDE and see if it might be worth reimplementing the welcome message, but getting wiki users to read the wiki's policies is an ongoing battle that never ends!