Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Onboarding/Jaime
👋, Jaime! We're glad you're here ✨🌈
This is your entrypoint into the wonderful and weird world of Wikimedia.
From here you'll learn how to navigate our labyrinth of mailing lists, tasks, wikis, servers, and tools (and meet some fellow travelers on the journey).
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
There's no quiz or anything — 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:Hashar (
hasharirc 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)
#together,#releng-standup,#engineering-all,#no-stupid-questions,#general. Channels#togetherand#releng-standupare private, you'll need to request access (User:TCipriani_(WMF) - IRC, in #wikimedia-releng connect
- Slack (in order of descending preference)