"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?
Regards,
Flo