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The original message is

$2 removed $1 from mentorship

I looks like this:

Capture d’écran_2023-09-05_15-48-10.png (189×580 px, 23 KB)

Reason :

I don't think newcomers care much about the reason why their mentor is not their mentor anymore. The important thing is that they still have a mentor. :)

Saying that the mentor was removed is true, but it could also be complicated to grasp for some people: "Was my mentor a bad person?"

I think it is better to have one story: they retire. In the same way some parents tell their 5-year-old that their goldfish is now swimming in the great sea and won't return to the fishbowl... Not true, but almost true. ;)

See also T327493: Message received by the newcomer when their mentor quits could be improved

Acceptance Criteria:

Update the Growthexperiments-quit-mentorship-reassign-mentees-log-message-removed message to:

Your former mentor, $old_mentor, is no longer mentoring editors.
$new_mentor is your new mentor on $wiki.

or

$new_mentor is your new mentor on $wiki.
Your former mentor, $old_mentor, is no longer mentoring editors.

Event Timeline

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald Transcript
KStoller-WMF added a subscriber: JFernandez-WMF.

I agree that it would be nice to have more newcomer-friendly message, but I think we should ensure the language is still technically accurate. "Quit" and "retired" isn't technically true.

I think something like this might be both newcomer-friendly and accurate:

Your former mentor, $old_mentor, is no longer mentoring editors.
$new_mentor is your new mentor on $wiki.

@Trizek-WMF @JFernandez-WMF - thoughts on that copy?

What Kirsten proposed sounds good to me, and I agree it is an improvement. I'm unsure whether we can invert the two sentences easily (it's an Echo-constructed notification), but I can check that once this is confirmed.

What Kirsten proposed sounds good to me, and I agree it is an improvement. I'm unsure whether we can invert the two sentences easily (it's an Echo-constructed notification), but I can check that once this is confirmed.

If it's not possible (or simple) I think either order is acceptable:

Your former mentor, $old_mentor, is no longer mentoring editors.
$new_mentor is your new mentor on $wiki.

or

$new_mentor is your new mentor on $wiki.
Your former mentor, $old_mentor, is no longer mentoring editors.