Talk:Growth/FAQ

Third-party pausing in mentorship?
Hi. On en.wp, I follow the User talk of a mentor who has been inactive for about three weeks, and not particularly active for around a month. There are currently four mentorship module questions on her talk page, one of which I chose to answer myself after giving the inactive mentor a few days to respond.Is there any way a mentor can be put on pause by a third party? Folly Mox (talk) 19:38, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes. Any admin can go to Special:ManageMentors and remove mentors or mark them as away. I vaguely recall that there is some code somewhere to automatically mark inactive mentors as away, but I'm not sure what it's threshold is or whether it worked. You should probably have posted this on a more visible talk page, since this page previously didn't exist and doesn't have that many watchers. * Pppery * it has begun 19:52, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I did see it had previously been deleted for spam, but figured the Growth Team might see it anyway. Also regularly forget about Template:pb at mw 🙃
 * Do you think you might be able to handle the marking inactive bit, mw:User:Pppery? I know you're a local en.wp admin as well and I'm not sure where to request it. The mentor in question is en:User:ARoseWolf. I'm hoping she returns to activity soon, but it feels inconsiderate to her mentees if we just leave them waiting and hoping. Folly Mox (talk) 20:47, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for noticing and responding to the unanswered questions! Pppery is correct, any admin can remove that Mentor or update that Mentor to "away". Some wikis have bots that remove inactive mentors, but the Growth team is also considering if we should build that functionality into the Mentorship features as default. If we did that, we would allow Admins to configure what threshold needs to be met to be considered inactive. Here's the associated task: T321509. Would that be helpful? Thanks, KStoller-WMF (talk) 20:54, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd recommend asking at w:Wikipedia talk:Growth Team features or w:Wikipedia talk:Growth Team features/Mentor list - if the English Wikipedia community had come up with some standard procedure to follow for cases like this I'd be willing to implement it, but I don't want to break new ground when admin edits to others' mentor settings have only happened three times before - once when a mentor was blocked as a sock, once when they explicitly retired, and once when they were inactive for a far longer period than three weeks - and in all of those cases they were removed from the list not marked as "Away". I finally figured out what my recollection above was referring to: T321509, which is still in the pipeline and not done. * Pppery * it has begun  20:57, 24 August 2023 (UTC)