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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The discussion revolves around a bug in the Discourse wizard, where it doesn’t remember the mission statement entered previously. pfaffman reported this issue and asked for it to be added to the bug list. However, techAPJ claims that it works fine for them on the latest Discourse version.
It was revealed that the “Introduction” entered in the wizard gets prepended to the existing “Welcome to Discourse” topic. pfaffman finds this confusing, as the resulting topic still has a section that says “Edit this”, which seems counterintuitive. They suggest that the wizard should either allow editing of the entire message or none of it, and propose a notification to remind administrators to fix this issue.
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This does seem to be a legit bug, can you add it to your list @techapj?
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It works fine for me on latest Discourse version. I can see the “Introduction” pre-filled when running the wizard again.
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
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Well, it was 5 months ago when I noticed this. Something might have changed. 
That doesn’t make any sense to me.
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.” ?
