I've added a not about warning mentees.

Also, have a way to change mentors would be a nice way to give a new mentor to an active newcomer if their current mentor is not available anymore. This would replace a long-term mentorship program. OTOH, a newcomer able to ask for a new mentor is capable to find a way to ask for help.

In T228210#5340459, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

I've added a not about warning mentees.

Your rule says "Warm (sic!) mentors that they changed mentor". Not sure what does that mean, could you explain?

Also, have a way to change mentors would be a nice way to give a new mentor to an active newcomer if their current mentor is not available anymore. This would replace a long-term mentorship program. OTOH, a newcomer able to ask for a new mentor is capable to find a way to ask for help.

+1.

Moving to discussion/analysis; when the specifications for this are sorted out @MMiller_WMF could decide which quarter this task belongs to.

In T228210#5341039, @Urbanecm wrote:

Your rule says "Warm (sic!) mentors that they changed mentor". Not sure what does that mean, could you explain?

Without typos or misses, it means "Warn mentees that they changed mentor".

@Urbanecm -- thanks for filing this. I see this idea as part of a larger idea to integrate the newcomer homepage with community programs. I think a great flow would be if a user takes the welcome survey, says they're part of a program, and then ends up looking at a newcomer homepage all about that program, including a mentor who is part of the contest. We'll think about that as the newcomer homepage gets more advanced. In particular, we want to see how newcomers interact with mentors, and whether they develop ongoing relationships with mentors, or if they just ask one question.

I'm putting this in Q2 for us to think about.

Change 530105 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; owner: Urbanecm):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] [wip] Allow experienced users to claim mentees

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/530105

I shown what I build at the hackathon to @RHo and @Trizek-WMF, and I got to the state when I got no suggestions on what to improve from that. I guess this is ready for code review then!

Hi @Urbanecm - here's an icon for the notification (ltr and rtl versions)

Thanks a lot, @RHo!

In T228210#5419502, @RHo wrote:

Hi @RHo , I think the shield is protecting the heart so no matter if rtf or ltr, for its place, but the question mark is correct for rtl icon.

In T228210#5575530, @Dyolf77_WMF wrote:

In T228210#5419502, @RHo wrote:

Hi @RHo , I think the shield is protecting the heart so no matter if rtf or ltr, for its place, but the question mark is correct for rtl icon.

As someone using shields time to time, I agree.

ahh good call, I've updated it the RTL version here:

@MMiller_WMF @Trizek-WMF How is this going?

I just left a review, thanks for keeping with this @Urbanecm.

Change 565243 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; owner: Kosta Harlan):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] ClaimMentee: Don't allow fatal errors if mentors page is misconfigured

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/565243

Change 565264 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; owner: Kosta Harlan):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] ChangeMentor: Handle cases where no previous mentor existed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/565264

Change 565266 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; owner: Kosta Harlan):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] ClaimMentee: Don't show confirm box when username is invalid

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/565266

Change 565293 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; owner: Kosta Harlan):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] ClaimMentee: Add GENDER to a few more strings

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/565293

Change 530105 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Allow experienced users to claim mentees

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/530105

Change 565243 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] ClaimMentee: Don't allow fatal errors if mentors page is misconfigured

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/565243

Change 565264 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] ChangeMentor: Handle cases where no previous mentor existed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/565264

Change 565266 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] ClaimMentee: Don't show confirm box when username is invalid

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/565266

Change 565293 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] ClaimMentee: Add GENDER to a few more strings

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/565293

Checked in betlabs - no issues found.

How it works:

• If a user is a mentor (the user name is on Wikipedia:Mentors page), a user is able to see the form on Special:ClaimMentee page.

• a mentor can successfully claim a mentee and a mentee will be re-assigned.
• both - a mentor and a new mentee will resceive echo notifications -

a mentee's echo notification

• it's recorded in Special:Log/growthexperiments log and displayed in RecentChanges
• the user name validation is in place

for invalid user names "Provided mentee's username is invalid"
for claiming a user that you're already a mentor "You already mentor ET233" (should we additionally check for phrasing here?)
Note: there is no warning when a mentor claims the second/third mentees

Quick non-blocking styling question: is the bracket the best option for the CTA "say hi..."? Shouldn't UserSpeechBubbles (oo-ui-icon-userSpeechBubble) be used instead?

@Etonkovidova Hi Elena, you write both - a mentor and a new mentee will resceive echo notifications - does that mean that both the mentor (old, or new one) and the mentee gets a notification? That's not the intended behaviour (at least as-of my code).