Reassign mentees from inactives mentors in ar.wikipedia.org
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	Dyolf77_WMF
	Feb 2 2021, 4:46 PM

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In ar.wikipedia.org some mentors are no more active and still receive on their talkpages questions from newcomers:

It will be more efficient to reassign mentees from these two former mentors to active ones in this list.

Thanks.

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Mentioned In: T280307: Mentor dashboard: M2 mentor tools/settings
Mentioned Here: P14136 (An Untitled Masterwork)
T272376: Make it possible for admin to remove a mentor when they quit/are blocked

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Dyolf77_WMF created this task.Feb 2 2021, 4:46 PM

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I'll do it semi-manually.

Restricted Application added a project: User-Urbanecm_WMF. · View Herald TranscriptFeb 2 2021, 8:09 PM

Doing this via a quick and simple Python script. I first fetched the list of mentors from the wiki page, and then all the mentees assigned to the unavailable mentors from the database. The script goes across all the mentees, picks a random new mentor, and assigns it via the API's setmentor functionality.

P14136 (An Untitled Masterwork)

1	#!/usr/bin/env python3
2
3	import requests
4	import random
5	import time
6
7	API_URL = 'https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'
8	USERNAME = 'Martin Urbanec (WMF)'
9	PASSWORD = '' # password from Special:BotPasswords
10	MENTORS = ["جار الله","محمد أحمد عبد الفتاح","صالح","أحمد ناجي","Dr-Taher","Avicenno","Glory20","فيصل","Nehaoua","بندر","فاطمة الزهراء","Dyolf77","Dr. Mohammed","سيف القوضي"]
11	REASON = 'مرشدك السابق غير متوفر حاليا. قمنا بتعيين مرشد جديد لك!'
12
13	s = requests.Session()
14	s.headers.update({
15	'User-Agent': 'Reassign mentors (murbanec-ctr@wikimedia.org)'
16	})
17
18	def make_request(payload):
19	payload['format'] = 'json'
20	return s.post(API_URL, data=payload)
21
22	def get_token(type='csrf'):
23	r = make_request({
24	'action': 'query',
25	'meta': 'tokens',
26	'type': type
27	})
28	data = r.json()
29	return data.get('query', {}).get('tokens', {}).get('%stoken' % type)
30
31	r = make_request({
32	"action": "login",
33	"lgname": USERNAME,
34	"lgpassword": PASSWORD,
35	"lgtoken": get_token('login')
36	})
37	print(r.json())
38
39	mentees = open('mentees.txt').read().split('\n')
40	token = get_token()
41	mentees.pop()
42	for mentee in mentees:
43	mentor = random.choice(MENTORS)
44	print("Setting %s's mentor to %s" % (mentee, mentor))
45	print(make_request({
46	"action": "growthsetmentor",
47	"mentee": mentee,
48	"mentor": mentor,
49	"reason": REASON,
50	"token": token
51	}).json())

Note the script requires local sysop privileges, and the runner should probably be in the bot group as well, to avoid flooding recent changes (the first mentor I'm reassigning has more than 4k of mentees).

We definitely should have a long term solution for this issue (T272376). For now, this is a suitable workaround I would say. Short to medium term (until communities can see the list of mentees assigned to people), it should be easy to convert the API-based script into a maintenance script.

The script just finished. 11k mentees for one mentor, over 4k for the other mentor.

Thank you @Urbanecm_WMF !

Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Untriaged to Engineering on the User-Urbanecm_WMF board.Feb 3 2021, 7:09 PM

Urbanecm_WMF edited projects, added User-Urbanecm_WMF (Engineering); removed User-Urbanecm_WMF.

Urbanecm_WMF mentioned this in T280307: Mentor dashboard: M2 mentor tools/settings.Apr 25 2021, 5:24 PM

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