Template:Cal Invitation/doc

Rationale

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.

Usage

Examples

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.

{{subst:Cal Invitation}}

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

Hi, I noticed your contributions and thought you might be interested in joining WikiProject California, including the San Francisco Bay Area 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 Bay Area related articles you may want to join WikiProject California, especially the San Francisco Bay Area task force (signup here). ~~~~

{{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.

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

	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 948 articles under our task force and would appreciate any assistance, large or small, with getting them to good article status. (We've got 17 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:

	Hi! I've noticed some of your work on California-related articleslike San Francisco, and think it shows that you're exactly the kind of editor we need at WikiProject California. Please consider this your personal invitation to join us; if you're interested, joining is as simple as adding yourself to . The project currently tracks 78,163 California-related articles on English Wikipedia, with the long-term goal of getting them all awarded the Good Article badge or better (we've got 912 there so far!), and we'd be truly grateful for any assistance, large or small, you are able to lend.
	P.S. Did I mention we're in charge of the  California portal too? Have any ideas on how it could be better? We're all ears.
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Follow up

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.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Cal Invitation in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Cal Invitation

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

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

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 Example San Francisco	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. Example yes	Boolean	optional