@Moxy: Hi, following up from our archived discussion at Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016_February_8#Welcoming committee directing people to wrong page(s)?, what do you think about using Help:Getting started as a target, instead? That seems to be a less-overwhelming destination to send new editors to, than Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia would be... Thoughts/alternatives? Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:57, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
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Please change the content of this page, from "Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia" to "Help:Getting started". Thanks! (Anything would be an improvement. If anyone has concerns, or better suggestions (there are dozens of intro pages, and debating them all will take a while), discuss here or elsewhere. But let's get a first fix in, first. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 23:13, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Please see this discussion at Village Pump: Noyster (talk), 12:10, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
This page controls the page users are taken to when they click on the notification they get after making their first edit. I propose that we change the link target here from Help:Getting started to Help:Introduction. H:GS is not a good target because it's structured primarily as "Help:List of introductory pages", providing multiple links to overlapping pages that cause choice paralysis and potentially steer users to poorly maintained resources (example). H:I, by contrast, has a much less overwhelming landing page with clear links, and is much more actively maintained. It's already our target from pretty much everywhere else (left sidebar, main page, welcome template, talk header, etc.) following multiple discussions; this link should be similarly updated to bring it into alignment. ((u|Sdkb)) talk 23:20, 26 May 2021 (UTC)