# Wizard doesn't remember the mission statement
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/wizard-doesnt-remember-the-mission-statement/80970
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [February 19, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wizard-doesnt-remember-the-mission-statement/80970 "2018-02-19T22:38:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wizard-doesnt-remember-the-mission-statement/80970/1 "2018-02-19T22:38:01Z")
When you re-run the wizard, it doesn’t remember the introduction entered previously, so you have to re-enter it every time, or something.
FWIW, I’m not quite sure where this Introduction goes – to a topic?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wizard-doesnt-remember-the-mission-statement/80970/2 "2018-07-09T08:41:09Z")
This does seem to be a legit bug, can you add it to your list @techapj?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wizard-doesnt-remember-the-mission-statement/80970/3 "2018-07-11T12:44:30Z")
It works fine for me on latest Discourse version. I can see the “Introduction” pre-filled when running the wizard again.
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> I’m not quite sure where this Introduction goes – to a topic?
Yes, the “Introduction” goes to “Welcome to Discourse” topic. The content gets prepended to the existing/seeded welcome topic.
For example I entered “Welcome to techAPJ’s Discourse forum!” in the introduction step, and you can see the resulting topic here: [https://discourse.techapj.com/t/welcome-to-discourse/8](https://discourse.techapj.com/t/welcome-to-discourse/8)
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wizard-doesnt-remember-the-mission-statement/80970/4 "2018-07-11T13:32:13Z")
> [@techAPJ](#):
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> It works fine for me on latest Discourse version.
Well, it was 5 months ago when I noticed this. Something might have changed. 🙂
> [@techAPJ](#):
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> Yes, the “Introduction” goes to “Welcome to Discourse” topic. The content gets prepended to the existing/seeded welcome topic.
That doesn’t make any sense to me.
> [@On another topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/8/1):
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> TEXT THAT WAS ENTERED IN THE WIZARD
> The first paragraph of this pinned topic will be visible as a welcome message to all new visitors on your homepage. It’s important!
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> **Edit this** into a brief description of your community:
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> - Who is it for?
> - What can they find here?
> - Why should they come here?
> - Where can they read more (links, resources, etc)?
So then you’re left with a sentence prepended to some text that itself says that it needs to be edited. I don’t quite understand the benefit of sticking some text in a message that says “ **Edit this** ”. It would seem like either the wizard should let them edit the _entire_ message or _none_ of it.
Maybe there should be a notification or one of those alarms on /admin that says “You really need to fix this.” ?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wizard-doesnt-remember-the-mission-statement/80970/5 "2018-07-11T18:58:24Z")