Wikimedia Discovery/Team/UX Engineer onboarding

Setting computers up, setting accounts up and getting known

 * Finish the HR paperwork and on-boarding tasks. Get them in on time, they are important and legally required :)
 * Create a Wikitech account.
 * Use the Wikitech account to create a phabricator account. Get Moiz to sign you up to all the UX-related boards and walk you through the process of working with cards.
 * Get an IRC client. Join irc.freenode.net and #wikimedia-discovery. Welcome to our team live chat!
 * Learn about cloaks and request one.
 * It can take a few days for the cloak stuff to be resolved.
 * Schedule staff photo (just list your name here)
 * Or you can list yourself as not wanting to have your photo up by adding your name under the cloak of invisibility list.
 * Add yourself to the team page—twice: in the info box at the top of the page, and under the section "The Team | Members".
 * Subscribe to some mailing lists using your @wikimedia.org account
 * The public search list
 * The private search list
 * Introduce yourself on the discovery mailing list.

Meeting team members and interesting people across the org

 * You should sit down with Tomasz Finc, head of our engineering team.
 * You should sit down with Dan Garry, the product lead for the team, to talk about the team's long-term goals.
 * You should speak to Kevin Smith about the team's processes for tracking work.
 * Grab Trey Jones, a wicked-smaht text processing specialist and engineer.
 * Grab Erik Bernhardson, who knows far too much about our search systems.
 * Talk to Jon Katz and Josh Minor, they are the product managers on Reading team and are working on interesting things. Reading and Discovery teams have an bit of an overlap, so its good to hear what they are up to.
 * Talk to Kaity Hammerstein, shes the UX designer on Reading team....
 * Talk to Nirzar Pangarkar, hes the UX designer on Editing team, get to know what editing is building.
 * Meet with Volker Eckl, he is the lead of UX standardization team, and working on our style guide.
 * Make sure Moiz has added you to the UX group meetings.
 * Attend the Community Liaison Cabal meeting to ask questions and hear about the way people interact with our community.
 * Talk to Oliver Keyes about event-logging support and other topics around data analysis for our projects.

Working on projects

 * Pick a small (low point value) task from Phabricator. Work on it! Reach out to Moiz if you run into any issues or it requires specific domain knowledge)
 * Talk through big upcoming projects with Moiz and how you fit into them.