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I'm rather concerned that the mentors themselves are very new users

@Kudpung Thanks again for checking out the Growth features!

I know we already answered some of this in the other thread you started, but I just wanted to follow up here too.

A wiki as big as English gets a lot of new accounts and that means a lot of mentors would be needed to handle them all, and so there are definitely considerations about how to manage and monitor all the mentors.  It’s not a little wiki where the mentors all know each other, so there are definitely unique challenges!  We are currently only giving mentorship to 10% of newcomers on English Wikipedia currently, although we may increase this as the Mentor-base increases.

Wikis usually choose to protect their mentor lists so that only people with certain experience levels can sign up.  On English, it’s currently “extended confirmed” protected. The English community has discussed this question about how to regulate mentors: there’s the talk page of the mentor list.  There’s also this thread about making an explicit permission for mentors.

Since that mentor list is public, mentors can keep an eye on who all is signing up to be mentors and notice whether people are signing up who shouldn’t (and mentors can be removed from the list in that case).

The mentee questions are being asked publicly on talk pages, so it's also possible to monitor if newer mentors are providing bad advice.

Does this sound adequate, or do you still have concerns?

Do you have any feedback for how we can further improve the Mentorship program?

Thank you Kstoller for your reply. It has more than adequately answered my concerns. I don't have any suggestions hw the Mentorship programme can be improved. It seems to be in the good hands of Wikipedia organisers whom I know well.