Help:Growth/Tools/How to claim a mentee

Context
Since May 2019, the 1>Special:MyLanguage/Growth|Growth team is working at 2>Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Personalized first day/Newcomer homepage|Newcomer homepage project.

Part of this project is to assign each newbie an experienced mentor. This mentor is randomly selected from the list of experienced users who volunteered to be mentors.

Originally, it wasn't possible to change the mentor, which could've caused some troubles for wiki instructors, who might want to be a mentor for all their participants, and also for other groups of people.

Since January 2020, it is possible for any listed mentor to change the assigned mentor for any newbie.

How-to


Mentors can claim a mentee by:


 * 1) going to Special:ClaimMentee
 * 2) entering the name of mentee you want to claim
 * 3) filling a reason (for instance, I teach this user at an off-wiki course)
 * 4) submitting the form.

The action will be successful even in cases the user didn't have any mentor set previously, but keep in mind it will not enable the homepage for the users. All usages of this interface are logged at Special:Log, if you want to filter just Growth-related changes, you can use Special:Log/growthexperiments.

Changing the mentor will automatically create an Echo notification to the mentee, so they will still be informed. The notification will encourage them to say Hi to the new mentor.

Get the Homepage
If you're a wiki instructor and want your mentees to have homepage enabled, or if you want to try the homepage for yourself, you need to ask them to enable the homepage in preferences>Special:Preferences|their preferences.