MyWiki:Teahouse/Teahouse talkback/doc

Purpose

This template is intended to make it easy for Teahouse hosts to let guests know that they have answered a question the guest posted on the Teahouse Q&A board. It is based on the Talkback template.

Usage

First message

This template should be placed under a new section at the bottom of the recipient user talk page. To use this template to inform your intended Wikipedian that their question has been answered at the Teahouse:

1. Go to the target talk page. User talk pages start with "User talk:" prefix.
2. On the top of the page, click on "New Section" button/link. It should look like this:
   
3. In the "Subject/headline" box, type "Re: [Section title]", where "[Section title]" is the name of the section in your talk page in which you have posted a reply.
4. In the message section, paste the following template text:

{{Teahouse talkback|section title here|ts=~~~~}}

If you wish, you can suppress the "Feel free to reply there!" text. To do so, add a second 'noreply' parameter as follows:

{{Teahouse talkback|section title here|noreply|ts=~~~~}}

1. Change "section title here" to the title of the section where the guest asked their question. Remove any leading or trailing spaces before or after the pipes.
2. Don't change any of the other values.
3. Save the page.

Wikipedia will notify the recipient of having a new message in her talk page. When she visits her user talk page, she may see your notice and may come back to the Teahouse to view her answer.

The example above generates:

Re: Question about templates

{{Wikipedia:Teahouse/Teahouse talkback|WP:Teahouse|Question about templates|ts=Example (talk) 01:14, 22 February 2012 (UTC)}}

Notes

• Do not substitute this template!
• Do not insert this template in a section header; use it on a line by itself

See also

• {{Talkback}} – the original, large "you have new messages" notice to put on other users' talk pages
  • {{subst:Mytalk}} – invokes the talkback template and automatically fills in your username
  • {{Talkbacktiny}} – a somewhat smaller version of {{Talkback}}
• {{Interwiki talkback}} – a "you have new messages" notice to put on other users' talk pages for interwiki purposes
• {{Whisperback}} – a less obtrusive template than {{Talkback}}, with more features and without the box
• {{You've got mail}} – like {{Talkback}} but to notify of an offsite e-mail
• {{Please see}} – similar to {{Whisperback}}, but notifying others of a topic they may wish to participate in
  • {{WikiProject please see}} – similar to {{Please see}}, but for use on WikiProject talk pages
• {{Discussion notice}} – an alternative to {{Please see}}, similar to {{ANI-notice}}
• {{Usertalkback}} and {{Userwhisperback}} – notices for the top of one's own user talk page, so as to inform your interlocutors of your user discussion preferences
• {{FYI}} – icon box to give a visual hint to readers of talk page items
• {{Notified}} – disclosure indicating that a notification has been posted on another page
• {{Reply to}} – ping a user without posting on their talk page (uses the mentions notification)
• {{Response}} – to direct the attention of another user to a discussion on a specific talk page
• {{No talkback}} – opt-out of talkback messages from Twinkle