[09:50:14] thoughts on some manner of 'adopt a volunteer' project? [09:52:04] i assume this is for getting new volunteers? [09:52:23] and or focusing development once hooked [09:52:34] idk how well it came across in my director questions yap but i do wish to focus on recruitment [09:52:57] I recall that being an interest [09:53:17] a lot of it boils down to "how" and "wow I can do that?" [09:54:03] even a straight stew has the kit for it really [09:54:08] might plop a thing on meta later [10:53:22] how do you plan to get new volunteers? [10:54:09] I would like to help, but I'm not sure how or where, so I'm interested [10:56:22] [[volunteering]] [10:56:23] [10:57:20] Yes, I saw that, but I was wondering if Raidarr had something different in mind? [10:58:15] "adopt a volunteer" sounds like maybe some sort of mentoring program for wannabe volunteers, similar to how we do tech team mentoring [12:01:17] I think raidarr meant adopt a volunteer from another wiki farm/project to Miraheze [12:01:34] Pretty sure raidarr has mentioned it in WikiOasis before [12:02:36] Unless I am misremembering or hallucinating (like AI lol) [12:03:06] @raidarr was this what you meant? [20:31:30] in this vein inspired by bumbling around wikipedia [20:31:47] in practice I do see oasis as a proving ground for potential miraheze volunteers [20:31:55] but that's its own thing I think [20:33:18] so the oasis is basically like a not so great training academy but it works [20:33:22] interesting [20:36:24] my idea was specifically in the vein of something, starved for details, to work with volunteers and hopefully on a stronger basis than the intermittent stuff in the past - I have occasionally worked informally with people especially who have native language skills I don't to look over things and its been interesting, but that's been a while [20:43:15] [1/4] chinese, japanese, korean, russian, occasional german, spanish and vietnamese are all what I would consider fairly in-demand language skills. [20:43:15] [2/4] The first four in particular can be tricky because they are hardest for our predominantly 'western' based audience to work with or translate (usually automated) to any proficiency. People who are fluent in them plus english are rare among our volunteer/candidate pool and the english fluency to some extent is necessary to really thrive as a volunteer; that's been the undoing of severa [20:43:16] [3/4] l people who do have these niche language but could not communicate well with us. Kiju is a unique steward because of this and succeeds an earlier steward who could also work well with several oriental languages. It's a big niche on Miraheze but most stewards aren't too well equipped. We've worked with a few people who specialized in russian that went well, Agent has spanish fluency. [20:43:16] [4/4] I'm a barbarian incompetent in virtually anything not english and barely that much [20:43:59] I'd been thinking more general cvt/wisting for a steward track but language speciality is a important thing when we can get it [22:42:28] Anyone who has been both effective and community-minded enough to be elected as Steward likely has the toolkit required to mentor, yes [22:43:47] That is not how I would read it, no. We are not starting up an explicit Oasis to Miraheze pipeline [22:44:31] Though, previous experience on other platforms is always a plus for potential volunteers