I totally agree that new players just joining (or new characters just being registered) should be prompted to read the wiki and forum, but even more importantly: the rules!
Better would be, if you ask me, to make an ingame tutorial (optional)

Becouse, there are a lot of things in game, that are not "naturally" understood, things that work but not entirely make sense. Like creation of a tent as simplest exemple, its very hard for someone to just pick up this game, hunt 10 brahmin hides and press science on them... If you dont know this, its kinda impossible to think it out by yourself. There are manuals yes, but on blog page, you got client link, without any manual for exemple, so it is not like the manual is shouting "READ ME BEFORE!".