Hi,

I'm the Product Manager for the Audiences:Readers:Discovery team and @mpopov and @chelsyx are the team's data analysts working for the WMF. The Discovery Department was recently re-orged into two separate teams and we continue to work closely with the Tech:Search Platform team as well.

Please add @mpopov and @chelsyx to WMF-NDA so that they can continue to provide effective and timely analyst support.

Looking at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_NDA we still don't have a clear process to add WMF staff to WMF-NDA.
It is unclear to me if C-Level have to sign off such requests.

Verification for these Phab accounts:

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/chelsyx/ is attached to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CXie_(WMF)
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/CXie_(WMF) says account was created on meta
    • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?page=User:CXie_(WMF) says account was created by a trusted OIT member. Hence fine.
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/mpopov/ is attached to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:MPopov_(WMF)
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/MPopov_(WMF) says account was created on enwp
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?page=User:MPopov_(WMF) only says "account was created".

And I can only check L2 ("Trusted Volunteer Access & Confidentiality Agreement") but cannot check some paper NDAs in some office far away.

In T172425#3498414, @Aklapper wrote:

Verification for these Phab accounts:

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/mpopov/ is attached to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:MPopov_(WMF)
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/MPopov_(WMF) says account was created on enwp
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?page=User:MPopov_(WMF) only says "account was created".

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?page=User:MPopov_(WMF) "was created by OITBot (WMF) and password was sent by email (New Employee)"

It is unclear to me if C-Level have to sign off such requests.
And I can only check L2 ("Trusted Volunteer Access & Confidentiality Agreement") but cannot check some paper NDAs in some office far away.

@JKatzWMF I found that Chelsy and I weren't included in the group after trying to view a ticket that Tilman linked. Do you know if @Tnegrin needs to sign off on this? Can someone check our paper NDAs? Also apparently Deb was automatically added to the group, but we weren't.

In T172425#3498696, @mpopov wrote:

Also apparently Deb was automatically added to the group, but we weren't.

That's not correct - see T122920.

@mpopov I am also not in this group! I just created a ticket for myself (T172539).

@Aklapper, I am also ot sure what needs to be done here. However, if debt, who is verified staff has asked for it, I think you can trust that this mpopov is the one who works at the foundation.

In T172425#3498696, @mpopov wrote:
Also apparently Deb was automatically added to the group, but we weren't.
That's not correct - see T122920.

As a small note: I was not auto-added, but after @Deskana verified me, I was added into the group.

In T172425#3498696, @mpopov wrote:

@JKatzWMF I found that Chelsy and I weren't included in the group after trying to view a ticket that Tilman linked. Do you know if @Tnegrin needs to sign off on this? Can someone check our paper NDAs? Also apparently Deb was automatically added to the group, but we weren't.

The process is that you link your Phabricator accounts to your on-wiki staff accounts (which has been done) and that your manager gives approval (which @JKatzWMF did above). I can also vouch for both of you, as your former manager. Since these steps have been done, I don't know why this is held up. I'd add you myself, but I don't have the ability to do that.

I poked around on IRC and @bd808 volunteered to take care of this. Thanks Bryan!

Thanks!

Thanks!

Also thanks for handling this! (I am still waiting for an email reply from HR about verifying NDAs in general... :-/ )

In T172425#3570948, @Aklapper wrote:

Also thanks for handling this! (I am still waiting for an email reply from HR about verifying NDAs in general... :-/ )

In the early Phabricator days @chasemp got a blanket approval to add verified Foundation staff to the WMF-NDA group without additional paperwork. Opinions may or may not have changed since then, but this is the 'authority' I have been applying.