On Nov 9, 2007 12:06 PM, Florian Straub flominator@gmx.net wrote:
Good idea. But first, let's collect some ideas and mentors: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mentoring
Note that we do this on enwiki as well, at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User
We've got a fairly good number of users adopting and being adopted (the categories show around 200 adopters, and 600 adoptees, but that probably overstates it a little). The biggest problem that we've had is keeping up with the number of people who want to be adopted. I'm not sure whether that would be such a big problem on commons, since I doubt we get as many new users on commons as enwiki, but the learning curve is probably a bit steeper on commons, to counteract that.
If we do end up with something like this on commons we'll probably want to announce it on [[w:WP:ADOPT]] as well, so we (we-the-adopt-a-user-program) know where to point users who want commons help. I'll do that myself, once things get set up; until then, everyone might want to take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Adopt-a-User/Archive_1
to see what sort of problems we had with this.
Tracy Poff