User:ATomasevich (WMF)/Onboarding

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

Required

•  Done Read the guide for new hires, including the guide for new engineering staff.
•  Done Review our guide to the various Wikimedia wikis.
•  Done Verify access to Gmail (@wikimedia.org), Office (standalone), and Wikipedia / MediaWiki.org (same account via single user login).
•  Done Create a Wikitech LDAP account. Commonly, the username you use is your internet handle (i.e., not a (WMF) username), but you will want to use your @wikimedia.org email address.
•  Done Verify that you can log into Phabricator with your Wikitech LDAP account. If you run into any issues, refer to this help document. See generally Phabricator for more documentation and tips.
•  Done Request access to the group ldap/wmf, adding your manager to the access request task for approval. This group gives you more code review approval rights in the system as well as access to myriad different tools and services
•  Done Become a MediaWiki hacker and verify access to Gerrit using your Wikitech LDAP account.
•  Done Set up IRC. Join the #wikimedia-staff (requires invitation), #wikimedia-mobile, and #wikimedia-operations channels (#wikimedia-office is also helpful for some public events). Review other channels for your interests. Attach an IRC cloak. If you don't already have an IRC client, consider using IRCCloud, a web-based client popular among Foundation staff.
•  Done View the data training modules. Ask your manager for the links.
•  Done Subscribe to the following lists on https://lists.wikimedia.org/ with your Wikimedia email address.
  • mobile-l - Default list for discussions for mobile-related or Readers audience vertical topics.
  • wikitech-l - Default list for tech discussions on Wikimedia and MediaWiki software.
  • mediawiki-api and mediawiki-api-announce - Lists about internet facing APIs.
  • engineering - Public facing list for all software engineers. You should already be subscribed to this list. Contact OIT if you still need access.
•  Done Write up an introduction email for yourself written in the first or third person, and send it to your manager for review, so your manager can share on the internal product wide mailing list and forward to the Foundation wide optional mailing list.
•  Done Read about the Movement Strategy.
•  Done Read the Medium Term Plan.
•  Done Read the WMF annual plan for FY 2018-2019 (June 2018 - July 2019)
• Read Debugging Teams: Better Productivity through Collaboration (Brian W. Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman)
• (Started) Start on making 50 edits on a broad range of user agents, form factors, network conditions, etc. - MediaWiki.org and Office Wiki are simplest for your work account. Remember, your personal edits on project wikis are your personal edits. Some help: Help:Wiki markup, Help:Wikitext examples

Required for some

Verify with your manager which of these apply to you:

• Request access to one of the data access groups. Consult your manager to figure out the appropriate group(s) and add them to the access request task for approval. This will allow you to access analytics data. Ensure that you have also read the data access guidelines.
• Apply for beta cluster event logging access for debugging analytics data submission.
• Request access to OTRS, our system for customer support requests, by emailing otrs-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
• If you will be doing deployment related work (typically, for web engineering and content services), request "deployment access and operational logs access" when following the steps for shell access.
•  Done Set up Slack, and join any team channel(s) that may be applicable (and some general-interest ones if you like)

Strongly recommended

• (Started) Set meetings with product managers and program managers to learn about products and programs: Web (Olga V), iOS (Josh M), Android (Charlotte G), Multimedia (Ramsey I), New Readers program (Anne G), Structured Data on Commons program (Amanda B), Platform Evolution program (Corey F)
• (Started) Set one time meetings with all Readers engineering engineers and managers to say hi - one every other day is a good tempo
•  Done Scan the English Wikipedia Village Pumps and Commons Village Pump
• Read The Wikipedia Revolution

If you like

• Arrange for a staff photo. It's not required,
•  Done In Gmail, enable Settings > General (tab) > Undo Send and change the timeout to 30 seconds and press Save Change
• Watch this video of Joel Spolsky at Wikimedia
•  Done Subscribe to the following lists on https://lists.wikimedia.org/ with your Wikimedia email address.
  • analytics - List about analytics.
  • newreaders - Public discussion about New Readers.
• Read some blog posts, like Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia.
• Review recent quarterly check-in decks for Audiences
• Read about Readers

Team norms

Out of office

1. Verify the dates you'll be out with your team and your manager.
2. Request time off in Namely.
3. Make an out of office event on your personal calendar that spans the time you'll be out. Ensure "Automatically decline new and existing meetings" is checked.
4. Make an event on your team calendar indicating you’ll be out. Ensure "All-day" is checked and have it span all days you'll be out.
5. Set your Gmail vacation responder with a message that indicates that you're out of office, when you'll return, and contact information of your delegate(s) for urgent issues regarding your work. Ensure that "Only send a response to people in Wikimedia Foundation" is checked.