Project Mentor

Project Mentor

Project Mentor is an Urban Dead Wiki member group dedicated to making people new to wikis feel more at home on the Wiki by giving them one-on-one tutoring. It was created on August 27th, 2006 after realizing that Project Welcome! was simply not good enough and more "refined" help was needed.

What We Do

We perform several activities as part of the Project:

• Identify the newbie in need - First and foremost, we search for a newbie in need. Someone putting his or her user page in the mainspace or not signing messages are dead giveaways. After the {{Welcomenewbie}} template, we drop off a friendly "Hello!" and tell them about our great program.

• If you arn't currently mentoring any users, you can alternatively add Template:PMentor (use {{Template:PMentor}}.

• Teach newbies - This is the most important step in our program. We take pride in teaching newbies with an advanced Mentoring system explained below. This help make even the most newby newb a competent, productive wikizen.
• Make the Wiki friendly! - We strive to make the Wiki a more user-friendly environment. Experts agree that being a welcome individual is critical to successful teaching and learning.

How to Get Involved

Project Mentor is an open project, and welcomes any user that wishes to get involved themselves. As long as you're committed to helping those in need, and teaching often times frustrating newbies, we're welcome to have you.

To officially join, you should place your name below on the Member register. And it is strongly recommended that to become a Wiki Mentor, you have at least balanced skills in all areas of the Wiki. One bad area is acceptable, but only if you report what you're bad at.

We also have a userbox that can be used to identify users as members of Project Mentor. You can use it simply by putting the following on your user page:

This User is a Mentor This user is mentoring Canuhearmenow, to show him how we work on this wiki.

{{mentor|user being mentored|him or her}}

Further, there's a fledgling convention of putting a link to Project Mentor within your signature. You can do this by doing the following:

1. Go to the Preferences page, accessible from the set of links at the top of the page (or alternately, by pointing to Special:Preferences).
2. Make sure you check the box labeled Raw signatures (without automatic link).
3. In the field "Your nickname (for signatures)", put the following (replacing Your name with your user name):

   [[User:YourName|Your Name]] <sup>[[Project Mentor|M!]]</sup>

4. Press Save Preferences.

This will make your signature look exactly like it normally does, except it will now have ^M! appended to the end of your name, with a link to this page.

Member Register

The easiest way to place your name on the register is to use 3 tildes (i.e., ~~~). Try to keep the list in alphabetical order and remove inactive members. (almost no edits for 3 or more months). The current member register is as follows:

• The Gnome
• Haliman
• Cheeseman
• The General
• Stuartbman
• Suicidal Angel
• Linkthewindow
• DanceDanceRevolution

Newbie Register

Place your name here if you want a Mentor. Please use 3 tildes (Thats ~) and write a short response why and who you want. Then place the chosen Mentor's name from above and put it next to your name. Lastly you should contact your chosen mentor via their talk page.

• Sanpedro - The Surgeon General

• Urgggggggh 01:44, 24 December 2008 (UTC) hello, ive just thrown up this for the lads in the clan, feel free to give me any tips. Cheers for the offer.

• Necrofeelinya I could use a hand sorting out my nonsense regarding Survivor Sightings pages, the maximum number of Group Subpages a group should have, and organizational recommendations and requirements. The details of this request can be found at the bottom of my User:talk page under the headline "Plans for Borehamwood Survivor Sightings Page". No particular individual requested, just anyone who's willing to explain. --Necrofeelinya 19:50, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

• Hamme Requesting advice on what to write about, particularly if updating locations pages is appropriate. Not particular who from, thanks in advance.

I'm mentoring him, but any further tips would be appreciated :). Linkthewindow  Talk  10:50, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

• Zhekarius 00:18, 22 April 2009 (BST) I'm a bit of a newbie to wikis period, and I'm not a very picky person, if someone's willing to mentor me I'd be very grateful to them, let me know, though I tend to be a bit withdrawn and shy especially if I perceive something as erring on the side of aggressive. I mostly am looking for help understanding how to make posts, suggestions, and with the game itself, and it's community, I haven't been playing long and I'm having a hard time getting anywhere, been a bit afraid to do anything (also I may suffer from OCD and have a perfectionist complex > >), been three days and so far I only have one exp point, aanyway, let me know.