User story & summary:
As a new editor, I want to receive personalized encouragement from my mentor, because then I'll be more motivated to continue editing.
As a mentor, I want to receive automated suggestions to help me recognize my successful mentees, because I have too many mentees to manually review all of their edits.
Background & research:
This task is important because initial experiment results show:
A significant positive impact on newcomer productivity on Spanish Wikipedia, however the use of the feature is very limited and the additional work for Mentors might prevent the current feature from being very impactful.
In discussions with wiki ambassadors we learned that sending praise is a time-consuming process as the mentors need to check a mentee's edits, thus explaining why the feature isn't more widely used.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Positive_reinforcement#Personalized_praise_experiment_results
Improvements to consider before scaling Personalized Praise:
Potential logic improvements:
- Update logic to incorporate Thanks in some way. (Surface only editors who have been Thanked at least once)
- Ensure that older accounts aren't surfaced. (Remove any mentee that would no longer be considered a newcomer)
Potential feature modifications:
- Surface recent diff on Mentor dashboard, so mentors can easily send Thanks rather than review edits and send a lengthy message.
- Change language to be more about "encouragement" than "praise"