Volunteer NDA

Some tasks in Wikimedia Phabricator require access to private and/or protected data.

For this reason, anyone being granted these types of permissions needs to sign an NDA. All Wikimedia Foundation employees are covered by an NDA they must sign as they are hired. The rest of our contributors must sign a specific Trusted Volunteer Access & Confidentiality Agreement.

Interested? Follow this process:

Create a request

Create a task in Phabricator under the WMF-NDA-Requests project with the following data:

• A list of permissions requested and the reasoning behind your request
• It is better to explain your use case and needs than it is to ask for specific permissions
• Wikimedia Foundation employees supporting your request (CCed)

Any progress will be communicated in this task.

Get support

In order to move forward we will need:

• At least one comment of support from a Wikimedia Foundation employee, explaining why it is a good idea to accept your request

• A comment of approval from one Wikimedia Foundation manager (usually the manager of an employee supporting you)

• After that, ask in the Phabricator task to make you a member of the "WMF-NDA-Requests" project. This will allow you to sign the NDA online.

• Sign the NDA online. Please sign "My Full Name - Country Of Origin".

• Sign off by a C level Wikimedia Foundation executive. WMF employees will arrange this as a last sign-off when all other criteria has been met.

Welcome to the NDA club!

After checking that your acceptance of the online agreement is in place, you will be added to the WMF-NDA project and you will be granted the permissions requested. The task you created will be closed as Resolved.

• Special note: Employees do need to sign the Trusted Volunteer Access & Confidentiality Agreement when they leave WMF. This must be signed for their access to confidential data to remain.