Umsebenzisi:Quiddity (WMF)

Senior Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech)
Movement Communications

Pronouns: he/him
Location: Canada
Timezone: Pacific (UTC-8/-7)
IRC: "quiddity"
Philosophy: "Whoever dies with the most toys perspectives, wins."

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Movement Communications

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My Work

Currently, I am: publishing Tech News, and assisting with various projects.

Background: After 8 years of volunteering, I was hired by the Foundation in September 2013. From then until now I have been working as a Movement Communications Specialist, helping to ensure open lines of communication between our editing community and the developers, and surfacing issues that are important to our editors. (Essentially, that means I tried to read everything (twice), to point the staff and the communities towards documentation or discussions that need attention and input, to investigate problems, and to compile potential solutions).

I have previously worked: with the Collaboration team (on Notifications and Flow); on Hovercards; with Community Tech on the Community Wishlists; on Movement Strategy phase 1; with Hackathon organizers; with the Wikimedia Cloud Services team on documentation and comms; with the Reading Web team on the Desktop Improvements project; with the Advancement dept on documentation and communications; with the Abstract Wikipedia team; and on various other endeavours and side-projects.

Bookmarks

• local /sandbox • /sandbox2 • /sandbox3
• Global.js/.css · local .js/.css
• Watchlists: metawiki · mediawikiwiki · commons · wikidata · enwiki · wikitech · beta cluster · testwiki

(and so many more...)

• Phabricator: feed · projects
• all subpages of this page

Linkhubs / disambigs / essays / notes

• m:Wishlists
• mw:Accessibility and usability cleanup
• mw:Dashboard
• Hubs and docs
• m:Microcontributions
• mw:Persona
• m:Workflows
• mw:Just make it a user preference
• mw:Voice assistants and Wikimedia
• mw:Naming things
• search tips

Ngami

I've been a Wikimedian since 2005. See my English Wikipedia userpage, User:Quiddity, for details about me, links that I regularly use, and most of my volunteer contributions. I prefer to use the pseudonym "Quiddity" throughout, as a single name is easier for everyone to follow, plus it's good to promote a culture of acceptance for pseudonymity (as cover for those who need it).

I live in Canada, and am interested in anything related to words, felines, connections, documentation, and design.

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en-N This user has a native understanding of English. simple-2 This user has intermediate knowledge of Simple English. de-0 Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch nicht (oder versteht es nur mit beträchtlichen Schwierigkeiten). fr-0 Cet utilisateur n’a aucune connaissance en français (ou le comprend avec de grandes difficultés). ar-0 هذا المستخدم ليس لديه معرفة بالعربية (أو يفهمها بصعوبة بالغة). ja-0 この利用者は日本語が分かりません (または理解するのがかなり困難です)。
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Disclaimer

I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I try to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, and edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.