Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Onboarding/Chad
👋, Chad! We're glad you're back 💖
This is your reentrypoint into the wonderful and weird world of Wikimedia.
Remember that labyrinth of mailing lists, tasks, wikis, servers, and tools? They're all still here (and we've added a few new ones).
The expectations for this page:
- Skim everything here within your first few days
- Complete the 🇼 Foundation onboarding and 🧑💻 Technical onboarding checklists within your first week (or so)
- Complete the 🐃 RelEng checklist within your first few weeks (or so)
- Skim the readings and bookmarks within your first month (or so)
- After you've done the 🧑💻 Technical onboarding you can jump into completing some tasks in 🔥 Next
The hope is that these checklists make navigating our shared world a little easier.
| Link | Description | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| 🇼 Foundation onboarding | Checklist of readings and links related to Wikimedia Foundation specific topics | Gmail, Calendars, Benefits, Resources |
| 🧑💻 Technical onboarding | Checklist of tasks to get setup for technical work | Users, SSH keys, lDAP, 2FA |
| 🐃 RelEng onboarding | Checklist tasks to get started on the team | People, Vision, Yaks, Team |
| 📚 Readings | List of items to read and watch during your first month or so | Guides, Opinions |
| 🔖 Bookmarks | Important bookmarks that you'll probably want to refer back to forever | Contacts, Runbooks, Things you will constantly forget |
| 🔥 Next | When you're tired of onboarding, it's time to dig into tasks | Next→ |
If you're stuck[edit]
- Search all the wikis: officewiki, Wikitech, and this wiki.
- Search Phabricator
- Ask your onboarding Buddy, User:Dzduvall (
dduvallirc libera.chat) - Ask your manager, User:TCipriani_(WMF)
- Ask IT Services (formerly OIT) for technical services help, by emailing techsupport@wikimedia.org
- For general Foundation questions, you have options:
- Slack (in order of descending preference)
#digital-transformation,#releng-standup,#engineering-all,#no-stupid-questions,#general. Channels#digital-transformationand#releng-standupare private, you'll need to request access (User:TCipriani_(WMF) - IRC, in #wikimedia-releng connect
- Slack (in order of descending preference)