"Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>
wrote on Wednesday, November 07, 2007
3:31 AM:
What do people think of automatically assigning
new users to a user
advocate who speaks their language? Something where experienced users
can sign in when they are around and new users will be assigned to
them? Would that help? I don't think we need to worry about
scaling it at first: if we are unable to assign advocates for
everyone, we could at least help some.. and that would be an
improvement.
We have something like that at German Wikipedia (
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MP ). There is a list of people available as
mentors with a brief description of their fields of work.
People interested in mentors have to put a template on their user page in
order to be found. That would be a nice solution on Commons, too. Especially
when people have to be active to get a mentor, you avoid all the zombies
wasting your time.
What do you think?
Go for it. The worst that happens is that noone uses it, and we are
back where we are now. The best that happens is people who want help
get it and the community grows.
cheers,
Brianna
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