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Onboard Randall Scout to the Security Team
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This task serves as a placeholder for Security-Team specific items to track Randall Scout's onboarding process.

Onboarding buddy: @Catrope

  • It's unclear what kind of code the security team *is* looking for.
  • It looks like we handled quite a few in the past, but fewer recently. (20 requests in the last year, only 1 for upcoming review). How did this workload feel to the team?
  • The last comments on the discussion page were 5 years ago. 10 months since last edit.
  • A lot of deep links from here are old, but not badly outdated. (updated a few things along the way.)
  • Continue through team resources including on
    • Security Team pages on officewiki
    • Privacy Engineering pages on officewiki
    • Security pages mediawiki
    • ...and see if there's any relevant documentation creation or cleanup you can take on. (Making numerous edits where I see things I can improve... particularly in the MediaWiki docs. A lot of our team materials have warnings at the top that they are out-of-date but seem to be current with explanations I've been given. I think some can be consolidated. Some day before a holiday we might want to work up a plan. I'll keep editing as I come across things.)

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...and link your ITS created work MediaWiki SUL account to your Phabricator account

This was not done; a self-created SUL account was linked instead, which could be an impersonation attempt (though the LDAP account looks legit).

Create a Phabricator ticket to get added to necessary groups Phabricator groups: Trusted-Contributors

I'm not sure why this item is in the list; I'd propose to remove that and replace it by adding new folks to WMF-NDA instead.

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...and link your ITS created work MediaWiki SUL account to your Phabricator account

This was not done; a self-created SUL account was linked instead, which could be an impersonation attempt (though the LDAP account looks legit).

Looks like this is now corrected.

Create a Phabricator ticket to get added to necessary groups Phabricator groups: Trusted-Contributors

I'm not sure why this item is in the list; I'd propose to remove that and replace it by adding new folks to WMF-NDA instead.

Indeed. I've updated the task.

sbassett changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Jun 22 2026, 4:33 PM
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