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 your MediaWiki.org user account to create a Phabricator account.
• Get an IRC client. Join #wikimedia-discovery ^connect. 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.

Working on projects

• Pick a small (low point value) task from Phabricator. Work on it!
• Talk through big upcoming projects and how you fit into them.