User:Varnent
Varnent in a Nutshell[edit ]
This user previously served on Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee (verify)
This user participated in Wikimania 2015 .
This user is a MediaWiki developer.
107,621+ This user has made more than 107,621 contributions to Wikimedia. This user has no objections to being checkusered at any time. This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know . This user supports Cuteness in the Wikimedia movement
This user is a member of the Association of Eventualist Wikipedians .
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Introduction
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NOTE: I work as a employee for the Wikimedia Foundation, but my work on this username is in my capacity as a volunteer and should be treated as such. While I was a volunteer for many years before my work with the Foundation, I started with them officially in September 2015. Unless otherwise stated, any edit to this wiki by me is an act of a regular member of the community, not a legal or official office action of the Wikimedia Foundation. Official acts by me in the line of my work will be done from my office account, User:GVarnum-WMF.
Outside Projects
[edit ]- Currently, I have no active project life outside of the Wikimedia universe. ;)
Conflict of Interest (COI) Disclosure
[edit ]- Main page: User:Varnent/COI
In the interest of best adhering to Wikipedia's COI guideline, and also taking into account guidance outlined in the plain and simple conflict of interest guide, I find it important to disclose upfront that, where appropriate, I contribute to articles related to work of my employers and organizations I have a financial relationship with (I have provided a list of all relevant topics I am aware of here). Previously, some of this work is as a paid LGBTQ advocate. More recently, I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation. I have also, in the interest of transparency, included articles I have contributed to where I have a significant personal history, but not a financial interest, in the subject matter.
I am here to advance Wikimedia's aims of collecting and developing educational content and to disseminate it effectively and globally. I have carefully read through Wikipedia's policies regarding neutral point of view, verifiability and reliable sources, and see it as crucial to follow these and the other core content and conduct policies closely. I am firmly opposed to non-encyclopedic puffery, marketing speak and original research that would detract from the any Wikimedia project's aims. When I create new articles, I leave the final decisions up to the consensus of others, and I am mindful of what constitutes enduring notability.
I recognize the inherent challenge of editing Wikimedia projects while mitigating the chance for bias presented by a conflict of interest, and for that reason I ask for independent input and seek out consensus via article Talk pages and related Wikiprojects before making any substantive changes. With this approach, I seek to bring a subject matter expertise and ability to obtain hard-to-find reliable sources to the community (to more fully bring articles up to Wikimedia's own standards), while also ensuring that resulting changes to an article are the product of community consensus.
I am also cognizant of wiki content ownership and view Wikimedia projects as a work in progress, so as questions or later input regarding the edits that I have made arise, please feel free to leave a message for me on my User Talk page.
Wikimedia Involvement
[edit ]MediaWiki Outreach
- MediaWiki Group Promotion
- WikiProject Extensions
- WikiProject SysAdmins
- WikiProject Bug Squad
- Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2012 backup administrator
Wikimania Involvement
- Wikimania 2021 online
- Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm
- Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town
- Wikimania 2017 in Montreal
- Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario
- Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City
- Wikimania 2014 in London
- Member of Wikimania 2014 Programme Committee
- Did not attend in-person
- Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong
- Wikimania 2012 in Washington, DC
- Member of Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (2013-2015)
- Chair of 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
- Communications Committee
- Co-founder of Wikimedia LGBT
- Teahouse
- Wikimedia Conference 2018
- Wikimedia Conference 2017
- Wikimedia Conference 2016
- Wikimedia Conference 2015
- Wikimedia Conference 2014
- Wikimedia Conference 2013
- Creating Change 2012
English Wikipedia Activity
- WikiProject Amusement Parks
- WikiProject Apple Inc.
- WikiProject Biography
- WikiProject LGBT studies
- WikiProject Michigan
- WikiProject Organizations
- WikiProject Video games
Wikimedia Commons Activity
==My User Page on Sister Stalker Wikimedia Projects
width=50This user has a page on the English Wikipedia.
Quotes
[edit ]If you are looking for volunteers for something I could probably help.[1]
— Dmcdevit
aude to Pancetta: how much does it cost to get from dulles to the hostel?
Pancetta's response: A billion trillion dollars.— Pancetta
In response to a question about the safety of attending a LGBT meetup:
There'll be no outing at this outing.
I did not get this old to be that dumb.
— Diego Sanchez