Background

As part of T264343: Have a special page for mentors to sign up, the Growth team is working on a sign up form for mentors. We decided to create a structured mentor list, MediaWiki:GrowthMentors.json, to serve as the new canonical location for the list of mentors, similar to what community configuration does. Mentors will be able to change their information, and non-mentors will be able to enroll (so long they meet requirements to sign up).

Problem

Pages in NS_MEDIAWIKI can be normally edited only by community-elected administrators. MediaWiki:GrowthMentors.json will be an exemption to this general rule, as enrollments/changes made by non-admins will result in edits to MediaWiki:GrowthMentors.json (mentors will not be able to edit the page normally; they'll have the ability only through the interface Growth team will prepare and maintain; only admins will have the ability to edit the page directly). This can confuse admins, as they might consider the feature a privilege escalation bug.

Solution

To avoid the problem, MediaWiki:GrowthMentors.json should have a notice at the top, that would explain the nature of non-admins edits, to avoid any possible confusion. We should also complete T310913: Tag edits made to MediaWiki:GrowthMentors.json via action=growthmanagementorlist, which will add tags to managed edits.