User story & summary:

As an experienced editor who visits the Newcomer Homepage,

• I do not want to be assigned a Mentor, because I no longer need newcomer support.
• I want to learn about the Mentorship feature, so I can consider supporting new editors myself.

As a Mentor, I do not want experienced editors assigned to me as Mentees, because it creates confusion and reduces my ability to focus on newcomers who need help.

Background & research:

This task is important because:

1. The current logic is confusing both for Mentors and Experienced Editors who are auto-assigned a Mentor
2. Mentors are busy, we should work towards reducing the number of mentees they support.
3. We need more Mentors! This is a logical way to spread the word and encourage more editors to join Mentorship.
4. 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.
5. 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.)

Copy:

• Title: Want to help out?
• Body: Help newcomers by answering their questions and sharing your experience. Learn more
  • Learn more links to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Growth/Mentorship
• Link: Become a mentor
  • Links to special:enrollasmentor

Design:

for newcomers we keep the current logic, they are auto-assigned to a mentor.

(edge case) for editors below the threshold, if they don't have a mentor assigned, and they visit the homepage, we don't auto-assigned, but we display the same module that we display to newcomers when they opt-out of mentorship.

for editors above the threshold, we display a new module that invite them to become a mentor. learn more link goes to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Growth/Mentorship. become an editor link goes to special:enrollasmentor

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.