Forum:AaU Revival?

I wish to bring back the Adopt a User project. Moonflight has presented me with the problems:


 * There are too many apprentices, and not enough mentors.
 * New users often up and leave, (without any notice) which wastes time, help, and space.
 * There are already help pages, and if people don't read them, it's only because they're too lazy.

My response?


 * One option is changing the mentor to apprentice ratio. I haven't exactly thought this one through fully, but I believe that we can come up with some solution to this problem.
 * We could elicit a commitment from users; not something that binds them to the wiki, but something that says, "If you're going to up and leave, inform us before you do so." It's not the best solution, but that's why I created this forum.
 * Help pages are impersonal. Yes, they tell you everything you could ever want to know about wiki editing, but you also don't get that mentor-apprentice bond. Apprentices often feel in awe of their mentors and their seemingly boundless amounts of knowledge. Mentors also help new users learn important social skills that I don't think they could learn from simple help pages.

Okay, so my responses aren't fully developed, but again, that's why I created this forum! I'm asking everybody here, "How we can reopen AaU?" Any suggestions or comments on improvement are greatly appreciated. 09:13, May 16, 2011 (UTC)