Wikipedia:Snuggle/IRC/2013-07-17

Snuggle users and Teahouse hosts will be co-hosting an office hours session to discuss the use of Snuggle as a tool for mentors. Snuggle is designed to help Wiki mentors quickly and easily find good newcomers in need of help. Just point your browser to snuggle.grouplens.org to give it a try.

Wikipedia contains a lot of projects geared towards helping newcomers become productive contributors to Wikipedia, but they all suffer from being passive -- the newcomers in need of help must first discover the spaces provided for assisting them. Snuggle differs from the history of mentorship in Wikipedia in that it allows mentors to actively discover good newcomers. Using Snuggle, a wiki-mentor can scan through the activities of a list of users pre-sorted by the likelihood that their work is good-faith.

The goal of this office-hour is to (1) spread the word about Snuggle to wiki-mentors, (2) discuss mentorship in Wikipedia and (3) identify what's needed to allow Snuggle to support a broader set of mentoring activities.

Log.

Agenda
Wednesday, July 17th 2013 in
 * 1545 UTC: Q&A about Snuggle's UI for those who haven't tried it before
 * 1600 UTC: Welcome & Introductions
 * 1605 UTC: Where does mentorship happen in Wikipedia? Does it work?  What could be better?
 * 1630 UTC: Where does Snuggle help? Where could/should it?
 * 1655 UTC: Wrap up & next steps.

Follow-up session
A follow-up session will be held immediately afterwards in to discuss some issues of interest to Snuggle users.


 * The visibility of Snuggle users' actions
 * Access control vs. open
 * Prioritization of new features
 * Expansion into other languages (e.g. ptwiki)
 * Supporting HostBot

Topics

 * Mentorship in Wikipedia
 * Where do newcomers need mentor help the most?
 * Active vs. passive -- Do you want to look for newcomers in need of mentorship?
 * Does Snuggle work for you?
 * Is it useful?
 * What critical functionality is missing that you would like to see?
 * Who else should be invited to try Snuggle? Teahouse hosts, AfC, Help Desk, etc.?

Cavassing

 * WT:Help_desk
 * WT:Reference_desk
 * WT:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation
 * WT:Teahouse/Host_lounge
 * WT:Snuggle
 * WT:Adopt-a-user



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