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Clarify mentors sign-up sentences at Special:EditGrowthConfig
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The two following sentences, displayed on Special:EditGrowthConfig where the structured mentor list is deployed are ambiguous:

  • Minimum number of days users should be registered for to be eligible for mentorship
  • Minimum number of edits users need to be eligible for mentorship

They are both defining the number of days of presence and the number of edits needed to become a mentor. They could be understood as conditions to get a mentor.

Proposition for the sentences:

  • Minimum number of days a user must be registered to sign up as a mentor
  • Minimum number of edits a user must have made to sign up as a mentor

Regarding edits, we should clearly tell if these edits are counted for all namespaces or only the main.

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Urbanecm_WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.

Good point! Let's do it :).

Regarding edits, we should clearly tell if these edits are counted for all namespaces or only the main.

It's all edits in all namespaces, as shown in Special:CentralAuth/preferences (example).

Then, regarding the number of edits, we should go with:

Minimum number of edits a user must have made (on any namespace) to sign up as a mentor

Change 835678 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] SpecialEditGrowthConfig: Clarify mentorship eligibility messages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/835678

Sounds good. Patch uploaded, moving to code review!

Change 835678 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] SpecialEditGrowthConfig: Clarify mentorship eligibility messages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/835678

Etonkovidova subscribed.

Checked in testwiki wmf.6 - the text is present and the limitations work as expected.

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@Trizek-WMF - should we provide more specific feedback to users who try to Special:EnrollAsMentor but might not to met the qualifying criteria?
Presently, a user attempting to sign up as a mentor and not having the required number of edits will see the following message on Special:EnrollAsMentor:

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