One becomes a senior mentor with time and mentoring a new mentor and protege, but will be asked at the proper time.
There are three: Protege, Mentor, and Senior Mentor.
No there is not.
A Senior Mentor on WikiAnswers is a Mentor who has graduated proteges from the program and has committed to providing support and guidance to a new Mentor who has just joined the program; usually this is one of his or her own graduated proteges, but not always. The idea is to give the new members of the Volunteer Mentoring Program someone specific to rely on for answers to their Mentoring questions, just as a Mentor does this for a Supervisor who has just joined our community.
15 and up to be a Mentor. Note: usually teens become Teen Mentors.
A protege can indeed request a mentor. If the mentor is available to instruct another protege, then the two will be paired together. Requests and the arrangements should go through the Mentoring Program Coordinator, Ganderton.
A Senior Supervisor is not like a Senior Citizen where once a certain age, they are deemed into that category. A Senior Supervisor is a Super that has made many valuable contributions to WikiAnswers and has been around for a while on the site.
There are currently 48 Senior Supervisors here on WikiAnswers. See the related question below.
A mentor is a highly experienced Supervisor (sometimes a Senior Supervisor), who provides support and guidance to newly promoted Supervisors, garnered from their own hands-on experiences working as a Supervisor within the Answers.com community.You become a mentor after being a good/successful supervisor for a significant amount of time. These highly experienced supervisors are also given the responsibility of training the new supervisors in the art of being a good supervisor.If you would like to become a mentor, get in touch with Ganderton (Gregg). Message him at his message board: UserDiscuss:Gandertonor by email to Ganderton @ WikiAnswers.com (remove the spaces).Check out more info on the Mentoring Program in the Related Links below.
Xnicola is a Senior Advanced Supervisor of the program. She is a Senior Supervisor, Senior Mentor and Senior Vandal Patrol from the United Kingdom.Skullcandy88 is an Advanced Supervisor of the program. He is a Supervisor, Senior Mentor and Senior Vandal Patrol from the United Kingdom.The leader position is not currently filled.
Well, Chris Whitten was the founder of answers.com so unofficially he was the first mentor. But, Officially Deb was the first Mentor.
To get a Mentor on WikiAnswers, all you need to do is leave a message on Ganderton's message board, or email him at his wikianswers.com email address! http://wiki.answers.com/Q/UserDiscuss:Ganderton Ganderton@WikiAnswers.com
Yes, the WikiAnswers mentor badge design was slightly changed due to feedback from a contributor.