This is our generic "systems and programs onboarding" checklist we put together for new hires. Many of these items may not apply when people are already familiar with our stack and workflows but I list them here nonetheless for consistency.
Data and systems
- Server access @Miriam
- Analytics cluster / stats machines walkthrough (Analytics)
- Hadoop / Hive / Analytics cluster (Analytics) -- familiarize yourself with webrequest logs. @diego
- EventLogging (instrumentation) (Analytics)
- Dump parsing libraries http://pythonhosted.org/mediawiki-utilities/
- SQL replicas (Analytics)
- Quarry
- Wikidata
- general intro to the data model
- WDQS / SPARQL
- JSON dumps
- Jupyter computing environments @diego
- ORES
Programs
- FY19: Knowledge Gaps (TEC9) @leila
- FY19: Knowledge Integrity (CDP3) @DarTar
- Other FY19 programs of relevance to Research
- Overview of other present and past initiatives from https://research.wikimedia.org