Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Onboarding/Jaime

👋, Jaime! We're glad you're here ✨🌈

This is your entrypoint into the wonderful and weird world of Wikimedia. From here you'll learn how to navigate our labyrinth of mailing lists, tasks, wikis, servers, and tools (and meet some fellow travelers on the journey).



How to use this document

 * When something is finished, paste in  via the wikitext editor, or use   if using the VisualEditor WYSIWYG editor. This will render as ✅ when saved.
 * Need help with wikitext? Check out: w:Help:Cheatsheet
 * If you find a step that isn't documented, or is documented incorrectly, leave a comment on the Talk page

If you're stuck

 * Search all the wikis: officewiki, Wikitech, and this wiki.
 * Search Phabricator
 * Ask your onboarding Buddy, User:Hashar
 * Ask your manager, User:TCipriani_(WMF)
 * Ask IT Services (formerly OIT) for technical services help, by emailing [mailto:techsupport@wikimedia.org techsupport@wikimedia.org]
 * For general Foundation questions, you have options:
 * Slack (in order of descending preference),  ,  ,
 * IRC, in

First few days
Your first week will focus on getting you the tools you need to learn and work at the Foundation:
 * accounts
 * software/tools
 * people-finding