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Identify and remove mentors who are active but who don't answer their mentees' questions
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Feedback suggested at French Wikipedia a as a follow up of T427386: Deploy automated mentor list cleanup to French Wikipedia.

Some mentors are active editors, but they don't answer their mentees' questions. At the moment, manual messaging is done (example) to encourage these users to stop being mentors. This is a time consuming task which would benefit from any for of assistance at some point.

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Trizek-WMF renamed this task from Identify and remove mentors who are active but who don't answers their mentees' questions to Identify and remove mentors who are active but who don't answer their mentees' questions.Jun 17 2026, 12:34 PM
KStoller-WMF added subscribers: Urbanecm, KStoller-WMF.

My memory is that when we previously discussed this with @Urbanecm we decided this would be a very large technical effort so we opted for the "good enough for now" solution: T321509: EPIC: Provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors.
Even the simple solution ended up being fair amount of work, so I'm not sure I can justify derailing our other efforts to work on this now. Moving to triaged, but let's continue to discuss if this remains a top priority for communities.