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The Homepage provides a mentor to any mentee. On some wikis, this interaction between mentor and mentee can or could go further than only on the homepage: * display the mentor's name on a message left to the mentee's user talk page, like a welcome message (`Hello, I'm [[user:Mentor|Mentor]] and I welcome you`) or some guidance (`please ask [[user:Mentor|your mentor]]`) * display the mentor's name on a sandbox template (sub-page of mentee's user page) to have a reminder about who they should contact * create user boxes: "My mentor is Mentor". A possible solution would be magic word, like `{{MENTOR}}` that would react on the user and user talk domains according to the assignment. Many wikis already have a system that automatically posts a welcome message to the talk pages of newcomers, signed by a mentor automatically drawn from an existing list. Because of an experiment being done by CAT Lab, we will learn how valuable automated welcome messages are for newcomer activation and retention. We may want to make the homepage mentor be the same person as the one that signs the automated welcome message.

The newcomer homepage provides a mentor to any mentee based on a specially formatted page on wiki. Meanwhile, many wikis already do some kind of automated mentor-like outreach to newcomers based on existing lists of mentors. For instance, Arabic Wikipedia automatically posts a welcome message on every new account's talk page, signed by a random name from a list. Right now, these two lists are not unified -- a newcomer may receive a welcome message from one user, and then their mentor on their homepage may be a different user. (NB: through an [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CivilServant%27s_Wikimedia_studies/Testing_French_Wikipedia%27s_welcome_message | experiment being done by CAT Lab ]], we will learn how valuable automated welcome messages are for newcomer activation and retention.) --- On some wikis, this interaction between mentor and mentee can or could go further than only on the homepage: * display the mentor's name on a message left to the mentee's user talk page, like a welcome message (`Hello, I'm [[user:Mentor|Mentor]] and I welcome you`) or some guidance (`please ask [[user:Mentor|your mentor]]`) * display the mentor's name on a sandbox template (sub-page of mentee's user page) to have a reminder about who they should contact * create user boxes: "My mentor is Mentor". A possible solution would be magic word, like `{{MENTOR}}` that would react on the user and user talk domains according to the assignment.

The Hnewcomer homepage provides a mentor to any mentee. based on a specially formatted page on wiki. Meanwhile, many wikis already do some kind of automated mentor-like outreach to newcomers based on existing lists of mentors. For instance, Arabic Wikipedia automatically posts a welcome message on every new account's talk page, signed by a random name from a list. Right now, these two lists are not unified -- a newcomer may receive a welcome message from one user, and then their mentor on their homepage may be a different user. (NB: through an [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CivilServant%27s_Wikimedia_studies/Testing_French_Wikipedia%27s_welcome_message | experiment being done by CAT Lab ]], we will learn how valuable automated welcome messages are for newcomer activation and retention.) --- On some wikis, this interaction between mentor and mentee can or could go further than only on the homepage: * display the mentor's name on a message left to the mentee's user talk page, like a welcome message (`Hello, I'm [[user:Mentor|Mentor]] and I welcome you`) or some guidance (`please ask [[user:Mentor|your mentor]]`) * display the mentor's name on a sandbox template (sub-page of mentee's user page) to have a reminder about who they should contact * create user boxes: "My mentor is Mentor". A possible solution would be magic word, like `{{MENTOR}}` that would react on the user and user talk domains according to the assignment. Many wikis already have a system that automatically posts a welcome message to the talk pages of newcomers, signed by a mentor automatically drawn from an existing list. Because of an experiment being done by CAT Lab, we will learn how valuable automated welcome messages are for newcomer activation and retention. We may want to make the homepage mentor be the same person as the one that signs the automated welcome message.