Help:Growth/Tools/How to claim a mentee



Since May 2019, the growth>Special:MyLanguage/Growth|Growth team is working at homepage>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. They can do so by going to Special:ClaimMentee, entering the name of mentee you want to claim, filling a reason (for instance, I teach this user at an off-wiki course) and submitting the form.

The interface will succeed 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. If you're a wiki instructor and want to have homepage enabled, you need to ask them to enable the homepage in Special:Preferences.