Quiddity (WMF)

Documentation Specialist, Wikimedia Foundation

"Whoever dies with the most ~~toys~~ perspectives, wins."

About me

I've been a Wikimedian since 2005. See my enwiki 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.

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

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

My work

Currently, I am: working with the Abstract Wikipedia team; answering/triaging emails to a few WMF contact addresses; and assorted backup-work and smaller/side-projects.

Background: After 8 years of volunteering, I was hired by the Foundation in September 2013. From then until June 2018, I was working as a Community Liaison, 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). From July 2018, I have been working as a Documentation Specialist, working to help advise on, organize, and assist with, the voluminous documentation that we need and have.

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 comms; and on various other endeavours and side-projects.

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, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.

Contact me

On my talk pages,

or via email (nwilsonwikimedia.org),

or on IRC as "quiddity". #wikimedia-tech^connect

User language

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)。