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πŸ‘‹, 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:

There's no quiz or anything β€” the hope is that these checklists make navigating our shared world a little easier.

Link Description Topics
πŸ‡Ό Foundation onboarding Checklist of readings and links related to Wikimedia Foundation specific topics Gmail, Calendars, Benefits, Resources
πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» Technical onboarding Checklist of tasks to get setup for technical work Users, SSH keys, lDAP, 2FA
πŸƒ RelEng onboarding Checklist tasks to get started on the team People, Vision, Yaks, Team
πŸ“š Readings List of items to read and watch during your first month or so Guides, Opinions
πŸ”– Bookmarks Important bookmarks that you'll probably want to refer back to forever Contacts, Runbooks, Things you will constantly forget
πŸ”₯ Next When you're tired of onboarding, it's time to dig into tasks Nextβ†’

If you're stuck

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  • Search all the wikis: officewiki, Wikitech, and this wiki.
  • Search Phabricator
  • Ask your onboarding Buddy, User:Hashar (hashar irc 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 #together and #releng-standup are private, you'll need to request access (User:TCipriani_(WMF)
    • IRC, in #wikimedia-releng connect


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