User:MarkTraceur (WMF)/Anne Tomasevich Onboarding

This is the tracking page for Mark Holmquist's tasks for Anne Tomasevich's onboarding process.


 * Create pages for all members of the onboarding team
 * Ask Engineering Admin to add to product-all, plus the following calendars:"WMF Engineering", and if in San Francisco "WMF Fun & Learning".
 * Ask HR to add "WMF Staff Calendar"
 * Setup on team internal mailing list
 * Take a pause and let them explore

Welcome Email
Send the below, possibly modified, to the new hire sometime (3-7 business days) before they arrive.

Greetings,

If you're reading this then you're likely a new member of the Readers audience vertical at the Wikimedia Foundation. Welcome! We're really excited to have you join us and want to make your first days/weeks/months both productive and fun. Here are some quick links to get you started.

Our team: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors#Readers

Team portal: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Readers

Chat: IRC #wikimedia-mobile (freenode)

Code: MobileFrontend Extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend Android App: https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia iOS App: https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios And there's more!

Email: mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org (Public default discussion list) wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org (Public technical discussion list) mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org (Public technical discussion list) mediawiki-api-announce@lists.wikimedia.org (Public API announcements list) analytics@lists.wikimedia.org (Public analytics list) reading-wmf (Internal administrivia)

Other useful links: How to become a MediaWiki hacker: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker

Guide to using Git and Gerrit for MediaWiki development: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Getting_started

Coding conventions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions

Security for developers: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Security_for_developers

How to localize MediaWiki software: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation

Wikimedia Bugs: https://https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/

MediaWiki.org (MediaWiki documentation): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

Wikitech (Wikimedia internal documentation): https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Office Wiki: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

If you get lost or are confused about what you should be doing then grab one of your new teammates and chat over coffee, tea, yerba maté, milk, water, beer, etc.

We're happy to have you with us!