Userpage

Back to the home base. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)
Back to the home base. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)

Talk

Questions? Comments? Advice? Talk to me. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)
Questions? Comments? Advice? Talk to me. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)

Contributions

Also see my other accounts, listed on my user page. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)
Also see my other accounts, listed on my user page. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)

Email

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Archives

Archives of information related to my account. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)
Archives of information related to my account. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)

WikiLove

Thank you! (Icon by Fabián Alexis)
Thank you! (Icon by Fabián Alexis)

Pages

Articles and templates I have created, expanded or hope to create or expand. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)
Articles and templates I have created, expanded or hope to create or expand. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)

Media

Images and videos I have contributed to Wikimedia Commons. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)
Images and videos I have contributed to Wikimedia Commons. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)

COI

Conflicts of interest. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)
Conflicts of interest. (Icon by Fabián Alexis)

Introduction edit

Varnent at Wikimania 2016
Varnent at Wikimania 2016
Professional free and open knowledge advocate, communications professional, former professional queer youth advocate, Wikimedian, WikiQueerian, policy wonk, tech nerd, nonprofit capacity building geek, Episcopalian, and video gamer - among other things.

NOTE: I work as an 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.

Wikimedia Involvement edit

Wikimedia Commons Activity

Wikimania Involvement

Meta / Wikimedia Foundation Activity

English Wikipedia Activity

MediaWiki Development

MediaWiki Outreach

New pages edit

Current count:

  • Content pages: 204
  • Disambig pages: 8
  • Active templates: 7

Hope to create in the future edit

Extensively worked on edit

On my blip screen edit

My User Page on Sister Wikimedia Projects edit

(Please note my account on Meta is my global user page on other Wikimedia wikis)

WikiLove edit

Outside Projects edit

  • Currently, I have no active project life outside of the Wikimedia universe. ;)

Conflict of Interest (COI) Disclosure edit

Varnent In a Nutshell edit




Subscriptions edit

Tip of the day...
Using templates

Templates are a type of page that contain boilerplate text that is intended to be displayed on more than one page in Wikipedia.

This Tip of the day box is an example of a template (there are several versions actually), and besides being displayed here it is displayed on many userpages as well.

Template names start with the prefix "Template:" followed by the page name. The main version of the template you are reading right now is called "Template:totd".

To display a template on a page, go to the target page, click "edit", and add the template's name (with or without the prefix) surrounded by double curly brackets to the page's source text. (The text you see in the edit box when you click edit this page is called "source text", because it is a lot like programming code, which is called "source code").

Including a template on a page in this way is called "transclusion". Here's an example:

To include the Template:Philosophy topics, type this at the end of the philosophy article you wish to place it on::

{{Philosophy topics}}
Read more:
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}
Committed identity: 3b111fb5fcf2c82cc91ccb603fff7197d6b64888fd3a01b6f97b802fd17ef6b5deabad8ca8f00203206bc33a84c88d670ac3fef22d78fb50607c601fb1443db4 is a SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.