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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.

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

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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.

• AddThis extension
• Blackout extension
• WikiShare extension
• TweetANew extension‎

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
  • Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department
• Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm
  • Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department
• Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town
  • Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department
• Wikimania 2017 in Montreal
  • Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department
• Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario
  • Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department
• Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City
  • Member of Wikimania 2015 Programme Committee
• Wikimania 2014 in London
  • Member of Wikimania 2014 Programme Committee
  • Did not attend in-person
• Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong
  • Member of Wikimania 2013 Programme Committee
  • Wikimania DevCamp 2013 Co-Coordinator
  • Fourth Annual Wikimania LGBT Meetup
• Wikimania 2012 in Washington, DC
  • Member of Wikimania 2012 Program Committee
  • Wikimania Hackathon 2012 Co-Coordinator
  • Accepted Wikimania 2012 submissions
    • The Land of Wikis Beyond Wikimedia‎
    • MediaWiki Extensions:What they are and why we love them‎
  • Third Annual Wikimania LGBT Meetup

• Member of Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (2013-2015)
  • Vice-Chair of Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (2014-2015)
• Chair of 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
• Communications Committee
• Co-founder of Wikimedia LGBT
• Teahouse
• Wikimedia Conference 2018
  • Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department
• Wikimedia Conference 2017
  • Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department
• Wikimedia Conference 2016
  • Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department
• Wikimedia Conference 2015
• Wikimedia Conference 2014
• Wikimedia Conference 2013
• Creating Change 2012

English Wikipedia Activity

• WikiProject Amusement Parks
  • Cedar Fair Task Force
• WikiProject Apple Inc.
• WikiProject Biography
• WikiProject LGBT studies
  • Person task force
• WikiProject Michigan
  • Detroit task force
• WikiProject Organizations
• WikiProject Video games

Wikimedia Commons Activity

• LGBT Free Media Collective

Essays or similar content I have created.

• What does WMF mean?

(Please note my account on Meta serves as my global user page on other wikis)

• Wikimedia Commons
• Wikipedia

• Wikitech

If you are looking for volunteers for something I could probably help.

— 

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