Help:Growth/Tools/How to claim a mentee



On wikis where the Homepage>Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Personalized first day/Newcomer homepage|Homepage is available, mentors can claim mentees.

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. This feature is only available on a short list of wikis.

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. However, it does not enable the homepage for the users: they have activation>#Enable|to enable it.

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 be informed about this change. This notification encourages the mentee to contact their new mentor.

If a mentee wants to change their mentor, they have to ask a mentor to claim them.

Enable the Homepage
The Homepage is not enabled by default for all users. The page can be enabled in preferences>Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal|user preferences, in the  tab. Check on the  section for the .

This would cover the cases where you're a wiki instructor and want your mentees to have homepage enabled, or if you want to try the homepage for yourself.