ubuntu-doc Digest, Vol 47, Issue 13

[Charles Davis]

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 00:21 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Dougie Richardson wrote:
> > ...
> >> I see many people who ask to be mentored, and Phil Bull and others do 
> >> a good job of replying, but it seems like few of the volunteers then
> >> follow up. Has anyone measured this?
> >
> > Is there a way to measure this, we only know of our own students 
> > really.
> > ...
> 
> You could scan the ubuntu-doc@ archives for people who had asked to be 
> mentored between one and two months ago, and see how many of them had 
> contributed to either the help.ubuntu.com wiki or one of the ubuntu-doc 
> project branches in the past month. Then do the same for people who had 
> asked to be mentored between two and three months ago, then the same 
> for people who had asked to be mentored between three and four months 
> ago, etc.
> 
> That would be rather tedious work, but probably much of it could be 
> automated, and it would be valuable in showing how quickly interest 
> falls off after initial mentoring. Then you can more easily tell the 
> effectiveness of any future changes to the mentoring process, by how 
> much it raises the curve.
> 
> Cheers
> -- 
> Matthew Paul Thomas
> http://mpt.net.nz/
> 
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I agree that it would be pretty tedious work and would also require
looking at the bug list and tech review status page. It would also
generate more work for people like Dougie and Phil. How you would track
contributions to the wiki is a bit dicey as well since the only people I
know that are Documentors students that have tracked wiki work are the
member of the Ubuntu Forums BT.

If there is an absolute "need" for this information to be tracked,
perhaps the documentors could institute a wiki page along the lines of
the tech review status page or the BT tracking page. It would probably
need to be a hybrid with some specific modifications to suit the
purpose. Another Option would be to have students document progress on
their Ubuntu wiki page. I've included links as examples and for new
members who may not have the pages handy for comparison.

my wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Old_soldier
tech review status:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/TechReviewStatus
BT wiki project: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Beginners/Development






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