Thread:Veralann/@comment-8-20200124175607/@comment-27514991-20200126220405

I wasn't contacted by any of the users who picked me as an advisor outside of the initial discussions post, so I can't comment on that question :p

I agree with some of the other admins in that I think that the option to pick advisors 'at large' should be made a case-by-case thing, as for a wiki like ours we didn't really need it and it shrank the pool of users who might have asked us questions.

I think I would rate it 3 stars, as I saw the appeal in the beginning (and I still think it's a useful program), but it turned out to not be very needed for our wiki, and I think it needs some fine-tuning in terms of scale so that it fits each wiki better (for example, does this wiki need the assistance of the global advisors, or should it just be left to local advisors?)

I also think that it might need some more direct/obvious encouragement for the users to message their advisors (preferably through message walls/talk pages/the equivalent rather than discussions, as it feels rather impersonal to talk about that through there) - or perhaps encouragement for the advisors to check in with the users themselves - to help move things along. Of course, with the userbase varying wiki-by-wiki, I recognize some of these things might not be practical for all of them :p

And the one other admin I spoke to who wasn't an advisor said that he believed it wasn't all that helpful in the end, and thought that videos explaining how to edit might be more useful.