One aspect of encouraging donors to create accounts and edit is that we promise them that they will be welcomed by a mentor. However, this mentorship system based on Growth tools is not yet set up at some wikis, including our polit wiki for this experience, Spanish Wikipedia.
[[ https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Programa_de_tutor%C3%ADa | There is a mentorship system at Spanish Wikipedia ]], but it is disconnected from our tools: newcomers have to find their mentor when we automatically assign one.
The goal of this task is to setup a Growth mentorship page.
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What are the differences between the two?
| | Welcomers (Growth features) | Mentors (Mentoring program)
| ----- | -----| -----
| Encounter | Automatically assigned to new accounts | Newcomers have to find their mentor, to work on a specific topic
| Scope | Take care of immediate questions | Long-term, conscious collaboration
| Specialization | Specialists of first steps | Specialists of in-depth topics
| Evolution | newcomers to become “young” editors | Help young editors to become long-term, experienced editors
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We advise to have one mentor for each batch of 500 newcomers joining each month. On average, es.wp gets 20,000 new accounts per month, which means a need of +40 mentors.