[WIKI]Re: A Thought On Clamming People's Fears of Wiki Editing

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Sorry folks!!  My mention of mentoring seeems to have gained a lot of
attention!  I was really thinking of the type of informal stuff that
many of us do through the mailing-list already.  Formalised mentoring
is difficult to administer but through the lists if someone asks for
help i think they usually get support for the specific thing they need
help with and maybe a bit more too.

If we are going to have a page to reduce people's fears about
wiki-editing it might be worth mentioning that and giving a few names
of people who have kinda done bits&bobs of mentoring in the past or
who might be willing in the future (time permitting) so that noobs can
see there are folks around, even though they might end up getting help
from people who are not even on list of examples.


My main point had been to agree with Svetlana that it's good to let
the noobs know there are admins and such but i was also hoping that we
could point out there is less intense help available and that no-one
needs to be good at both 'coding' and content because whichever a
person IS good at there is always someone who is good at the other.

Regards from
Tom :)








On 14 February 2014 23:32, Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org> wrote:
> On 14/02/14 22:17, Svetlana Belkin wrote:
>> On 02/14/2014 01:25 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph wrote:
>>> Asking folks to join the main team resources and having casual
>>> mentorships grow organically works much better.
>> Duh, I forgot all of the issues with the formal system.  But if one asks
>> for a mentor, can this system of formal mentoring be used?
>>
>> Anyways, I can remember many times here or in the other teams, that I'm
>> a part of, where I was informally mentored.  One such example, is you,
>> Liz, you taught me how to reply to mailing-list e-mails correctly.  And
>> you ,Tom, also.
>
> If somebody seeks a formal mentor that can commit to mentoring on a
> longer timeframe, and there is a senior mentor who is willing to commit
> to this, I don't see no reason why they couldn't mutually agree to such
> mentoring.
>
> Pasi
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