User story & summary:
As an experienced editor who visits the Homepage, I don't want a Mentor, because I'm not a new editor.
As an experienced editor who visits the Homepage, I want to learn about Mentorship, because I care about supporting new editors.
Background & research:
This task is important because:
- The current logic is confusing for Mentor and experienced mentee that is auto-assigned a mentee
- Mentors are busy, we should work towards reducing the number of mentees they support.
- We need more Mentors! This is a logical way to spread the word and encourage more editors to join Mentorship.
- This is another small way that we can "level up" new editors as they "graduate" on from being a mentee, to being invited to act as a mentor.
- Mentors are Asking for this:
The homepage tab could be tweaked to say after the six months something like "Congratulations, you are now experienced enough not to need a mentor! Use the Help Desk if you need advice from now on." instead of giving a name. I'd also suggest that anyone who activates the newcomer homepage when they already have over six month's experience should get that message. (I was amused that when I activated the tab to see what it did, I was auto-assigned someone less experienced than I am.)
Questions:
For junior editors who first meet the Mentorship minimum requirements and already have the Homepage enabled, should we consider a Homepage GuidedTour or notification so the change to the Mentorship module isn't confusing?
For experienced editors, should this module be dismissible?
We should keep the copy succinct, but link out to further details if needed. Where should we link?
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Growth/Mentorship
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Feature_summary#Mentorship
(Some wikis might want to link to their local wiki page, like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Growth_Team_features/Mentor_list)
Copy:
TBD
Design:
TBD
Acceptance Criteria:
Given I'm an editor that meets the Mentorship criteria defined in Community Configuration.
When I visit the Homepage,
Then the Mentorship module invites me to consider becoming a Mentor rather than assigning me a Mentor.