Topic on Project talk:New contributors/Greeters

Quim says "I think the primary role of Greeters is to connect newcomers with a first task until completion."

Should we come up with a list of first tasks or a list a places a new contributor could find first tasks?

Developers

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Easy_bugs

Browser Testing

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing

For browser testing a first task could be writing a feature description, and new contributors could choose from a list of curated bugs that need a feature description.

Bug Management

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:WikiProject_Bug_Squad

Bug days would be a good event to point new contributors to.

And in general: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar could be something to point new contributors to.

Also, what sort of permission will a new contributor need and when should they get those permissions, e.g. when you register with Bugzilla you get 'canconfirm' privileges, and if you ask you can get 'editbug' privileges. At first, new contributors can't assign themselves to bugs with their 'canconfirm' permissions, so do we automatically give them the privileges to do so, or do the Greeters assign new contributors to a bug they want to resolve, and once they do that give them 'editbug' permissions so they can assign themselves to bugs?

There URLs should be part of the starter kit, yes.

No especial permissions are needed. Newcomers can comment on bugs and then someone can assign bugs to them. Those continuing being active in Bugzilla can get permissions progressively like anybody else.

This post was posted by Qgil-WMF, but signed as Qgil.