Thread:TheEmbracedOne/@comment-45945731-20200621172323/@comment-31620988-20200621190011

Hi and thanks for the suggestion. We used to have this, however this feature tends to create some broken links (in Special:WantedPages) when pages are renamed or removed. When I was a WM, I cleaned up 100k+ such broken links from welcome messages on some big wikis and thus I removed the link feature from the welcome message on this Wiki afterwards, to avoid any cleanup needed later (granted, we arent a 10k+ page wiki, but we have a small team!).

The page links in welcome messages also introduces another issue that when you view the WhatLinksHere of a popular page, you'll see a lot of Wall Message links instead of useful information (yes, I know this can be avoided by using the namespace filter, but still).