Help:Growth/Mentorship

The  features offer a mentorship concept. This concept is used by various features the Growth team maintains, namely the 1>Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Personalized first day/Newcomer homepage|Newcomer homepage (which offers a mentorship module to newcomers; they can use it to ask questions) and at some wikis, 2>Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Focus on help desk/Help panel|the help panel.

This page summarizes various features relevant to mentorship, as introduced by Growth features.

Enrolling as a mentor
Each project has its own list of mentors. You can find the list of mentors for your project on 1>:d:Q14339834|Wikidata.

For more information on how to enroll, please see .

Claiming a mentee
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Integrating Growth mentorship with other parts of the project
Some projects had already a mentorship system in place, used for i.e. signing the welcoming messages. It is now possible to integrate the Growth mentorship with other mentorship systems used by the project. To make it possible, a magic word   was introduced, which returns the mentor set for any given user.

For instance, to get the mentor of User:Martin Urbanec (WMF), one would write  , which would return the raw username of the mentor. The magic word can be substituted like regular templates can, to make sure the username of the mentor will never change in the page.

The magic word will return an empty string if no mentor is set, and will not attempt to assign a random mentor. That is because not all user accounts need to have Growth features enabled: for instance, the features may be deployed in an A/B testing, which means only a certain percentage of new users will get the features. You can use the magic word together with the   parser function to incorporate a fallback mechanism into your project's templates.


 * Examples :

The examples below assume that the mentee is User:Mentee, who is mentored by User:Mentor.


 * – will output Mentor
 * – will output User:Mentor</>