Template:Recommended Steps to Participate for Outreach Programs Mentors

During the program

 * 1) Set development & communication plans with your mentee, stay in close communication with them and help them stay on track.
 * 2) Involve them in a local or global wiki community by introducing them to various projects & initiatives, how to get involved, connecting, and helping build relationships with fellow interns, staff and community members, etc.
 * 3) Set aside time in your schedule for a weekly meeting with your mentee via video call.
 * 4) Aim to get a Minimum viable product (MVP) out the door. Fine-tune plans as needed.
 * 5) Help host new coding projects developed during the program on  Wikimedia GitLab; Wikimedia is actively migrating all its repositories from Gerrit To GitLab. Be it any code hosting platform, ensure the code repository is public and available under an official global or local technical community account. This will not only give interns' contributions more visibility that they can add to their portfolio, but it will also be easier to maintain the project or bring more contributions to the project easily in the future. Similarly, for documentation projects, ensure that no content remains on user pages before the internship ends.
 * 6) Require your mentee to submit new changes (for code, documentation, etc.) for review often, ideally every alternate day.
 * 7) Encourage your mentee to submit bi-weekly reports.
 * 8) Submit timely project evaluations to organization administrators.
 * 9) Before the program ends, make sure to document any open tasks, file known bugs or merge leftover code.

After the program

 * 1) Share your conclusions of the project in communication channels, wherever appropriate.
 * 2) Suggest or help with any improvements of our outreach program guides.
 * 3) Communicate to organization administrators any lessons learned.
 * 4) Recommend next steps to your mentee in the current project or wherever you think they might fit in our community.