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.
- 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:
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{{mentor|user being mentored|him or her}}
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Further, there's a fledgling convention of putting a link to Project Mentor within your signature. You can do this by doing the following:
- Go to the Preferences page, accessible from the set of links at the top of the page (or alternately, by pointing to Special:Preferences).
- Make sure you check the box labeled Raw signatures (without automatic link).
- 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>
- 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:
- Airborne88
- Axe27
- Canuhearmenow
- Cap'n Silly
- The Gnome
- Cheeseman
- Thari
- The General
- The Surgeon General
- Seventythree
- Stuartbman
- Suicidal Angel
- Vantar
- Nalikill
- Linkthewindow
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.
- Looking for someone to tell me how to make templates, customize my signature, and perhaps fill me in on the history
I've missed from the scattered pages. Don't know any of the mentors enough to have a preference.--Rachel Akebre 04:40, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
- I'll mentor you if you want. I'm no expert user, but I should know enough to be useful :). Linkthewindow Talk 08:11, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- 1812lsd -I'd like to learn how do better wiki editing, templates, and stuff. I'm trying to undo any mistakes I have made. Not fussed who from! Thanks
- I just need help with this template. :P Ms.Panes I don't care who, anyone can answer on that page.
- Frogging101 - Cheeseman I am looking for how to enter things on another user's talk page and what I can and can't edit.
- ExTragedy- i actually have no idea how to do this.. im trying to learn though, so anyone really would be nice.
- xXClaire RedfieldXx - i'm kind of lost. i dont care who helps me, but as long as they dont expect me to know much right off im good. :)
- --Airborne88T Zom MIS 07:28, 4 March 2008 (UTC) I am new, what's up?? I think I am doing ok with the wiki for the moment.
- The DirtMan - Airborne88 - I created a template and can't quite figure out how to add it to the Wiki's Template:Groups page.
- Zach I really don't know what to do O_o any kinda help would be nice :)
- I accept to mentor PhaZ. --User:Axe27/Sig 17:54, 4 August 2008 (BST)
