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Mentoring programs
German mentoring program and international comparison
Tim Moritz Hector WIKIMANIA 2010 July 9 – 11, Gdansk
Overview
- Mentoring programs as a method
- Aims
- German mentoring program
- Other mentoring programs
- Discussion
Mentoring programs German mentoring program and international - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Mentoring programs German mentoring program and international - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Mentoring programs German mentoring program and international comparison WIKIMANIA 2010 July 9 11, Gdansk Tim Moritz Hector Overview Mentoring programs as a method Aims German mentoring program Other mentoring programs
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Mentoring programs as a method
Established Wikipedians
interest
external people in Contributing Wikipedia Established Wikipedians
teach
new Wikipedians how to contribute New Wikipedians
becomeestablished
Wikipedians
Enlarge the number of Wikipeians
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Aims
- More mentoring programs in more
Wikipedia language-versions
- More mentoring-programs in other
Wikimedia-projects
- Best practices in mentoring programs
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de.wp: Structure
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de.wp: Structure
Central page listing each mentor and its qualities
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de.wp: Structure
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de.wp: Structure
Chose mentor Set up easy template
Template: Mormax is new at Wikipedia and would like to be taught by Mentor xy. ...
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de.wp: Structure
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de.wp: Structure
Mentor adopts user: other template
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de.wp: Structure
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de.wp: Structure
Requiring newbies can be found in a category
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de.wp: Structure
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Database
- Statistic
- Archives
External server / Toolserver
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de.wp: Statistics
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Components to compare
Different approaches in other lang-versions
- Organization
- Content
- Duration of the contact
- Communication
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Overview
„Mentorenprogramm“ de.wp nl.wp Przewodnicy pl.wp fr.wp en.wp „Adopt a user“ „Service de Parrainage Actif“ No mentoring program
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Organization
- cf. Structure
de.wp Robot-welcome „Helpdesk“ nl.wp Similar to de.wp: Userpages and categories + central page pl.wp Similar to de.wp: Userpages and categories + central page fr.wp
- ca. 150 adopters, categories
en.wp
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Content
Advices, questions and answers Solve technical problems de.wp All questions, not determined (Helpdesk, email, userpage) nl.wp Problems concerning Wikipedia Questions and answers pl.wp Advices, questions and answers Solve technical problems fr.wp Adopter‘s presentation, en.wp
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Duration of the contact
- Max. 3 months
de.wp – nl.wp Not determined : Some weeks to a year pl.wp Not determined : Some weeks to a few months fr.wp ? en.wp
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Communication
Via email, talk pages, IM de.wp Via email and talk pages „Help desk“ – interactive FAQ nl.wp Mostly via email and IM and central page pl.wp Mostly via userpages, via email as well. fr.wp Via talk pages en.wp
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Results so far
Working mentoring programs:
Similar structure
Real time communications! We need approaches: cf. statistics:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediansNew.htm
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Problems in evaluation
- Inactivity of newbies
- How to compare with and without
mentoring program
- Cultural differences
- Project differences
Which method is the best?
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- Please add your ideas
- http://tinyurl.com/MP-evalua (MP)
- e-mail: timmoritzhector@t-online.de