User talk:Qgil-WMF

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Also -- See Vandalism for some guidelines on what to do with persistent vandalism like you've been dealing with on Taoism; it should help. Gscshoyru (talk) 20:31, 25 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Even better than that page -- here is a list of warning messages you can place on user talk pages to warn them about vandalism and tell them what you've done. Thanks again for fighting the vandals! Gscshoyru (talk) 20:37, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you for your correction of Earth system science.
Thank you for your correction of Earth system science. WP:tea. 99.119.130.14 (talk) 02:57, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Inviting you to MediaWiki groups
Hi David, looking at your profile we were wondering whether you would be interested in any of these brand new MediaWii groups just being formed as we speak:


 * Groups/Proposals/Browser testing
 * Groups/Proposals/Features testing

Your participation or at least your endorsement there would be appreciated. Thank you!--Qgil (talk) 17:35, 17 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't have lots of available time, but I'm interested. Can you tell me the first steps to getting involved and perhaps helping? Thanks, David Spalding (  ☎   ✉   ✍  ) 23:23, 17 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the quick reply. A simple way to start is to add your ~ here and watch the page to stay in touch. We are planning a first activity in January. Pointing there your testing/qa colleagues interested in Wikipedia is also appreciated. :) --Qgil (talk) 01:10, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback deployment
Hey Qgil; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:43, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

WP:Snuggle is live at snuggle.grouplens.org
Snuggle, the newcomer socialization tool I've been building, is finally ready for general use. All you need to do to get started is point your browser to https://snuggle.grouplens.org. Let me know if you run into any trouble. I'll be watching WT:Snuggle. Or you can also just contact me directly. Thanks for your patience.

See also:
 * Documentation
 * Bug tracker
 * Open source code repository
 * My work log describing the last few months of work

-- EpochFail (talk • work) 19:52, 14 June 2013 (UTC)



IRC office hours for wiki-mentors and Snuggle users
Hi. We're organizing an office hours session with the Teahouse to bring in mentors from across the wiki to and discuss it's potential to support mentorship broadly. The Snuggle team would appreciate it if you would come and participate in the discussion. We'll be having it in on '''Wed. July 17th @ 1600 UTC'''. See the agenda for more info. -- EpochFail (talk • work), Technical 13 (talk), TheOriginalSoni (talk) 18:37, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Qgil! I just wanted to post a reminder that this discussion will be happening in about 24 hours.  -- EpochFail  (talk &bull; work) 16:15, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Dev input requested at wikt:Wiktionary:Grease pit/2013/November
(Sorry, I'm finding it hard to keep track of the technical liaisons. If you're not the right person, could you point me in the direction of who is?)

The English Wiktionary is having a discussion at wikt:Wiktionary:Grease pit/2013/November about best how to re-organize our language metadata for ease of editing. (Currently we have a single data-module that maps all known language-tags to information about language-names, script info, diacritic-removal rules, and so on.) Since we use the language metadata on 3,544,079 pages (about 92.6% of our pages), and edit them pretty often, I think it would be good if a MediaWiki dev could take a look and say whether there are any performance considerations we should be keeping in mind, whether there are any approaches that are better than others, etc.

Thanks in advance for any help!

—Ruakh TALK 16:32, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Ruakh, I guess the correct link is wikt:Wiktionary:Grease_pit. Since this topic is about modules and performance, and  might have something to say. You may also want to consider the possibility or reaching the developer community sending an email to wikitech-l mailing list.--Qgil (talk) 20:49, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Cool, I've asked anomie and Ori.livneh. If they feel we should reach out to a wider group, I'll do so. Thanks again! —Ruakh TALK 22:21, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

VP post
If it's alright with you I'd like to remove our exchange from VP and leave the original post. I made an erroneous assumption that's now muddied up the thread, and I apologize. I think you might want to edit your original comment though, so it simply requests task suggestions, and include the link you provided to me listing the current open tasks -- others might be getting confused as I did. equazcion  →  06:38, 8 Dec 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi, no worries. I'm not familiar with the VP policies. Can we just edit/remove our own posts? I have no problem if you remove your comments and I edit mine accordingly to make things clear. However, I don't want that anybody blames me for this, pointing to some wiki page explaining that actions like these should be avoided. Sorry for the paranoia, every time I put a foot in w:VP-T I get as response either silence or a rant. :) I'd rather be cautious.--Qgil (talk) 06:56, 8 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I hear you. How about I move the exchange to my talk page and leave notes in both places? I'm fine with people blaming me; but I've done this before and haven't gotten complaints so long as the other participants in the exchange are in agreement. I'll leave your original post alone and you can edit it how ever you see fit (whether you want to take my advice above or whichever). equazcion   →  07:03, 8 Dec 2013 (UTC)


 * PS. Yes, you're allowed to edit your own post, as long as you don't change it substantially when there are already replies -- but I'd be removing the replies. You should be fine. equazcion   →  07:11, 8 Dec 2013 (UTC)


 * I just made the move. If you see any issues, or want it undone, just let me know. equazcion   →  07:25, 8 Dec 2013 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi !  We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

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Phabricator
Dear Mr. Qqil, about one month ago i try to login to phabricator website but i couldn't do it. I noticed that the e-mail I'm registered with is wrong. I cannot create another account because my present account is connected to the one on wikipedia. How can i change my e-mail in order to access the website?--LikeLifer (talk) 20:41, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi . Are you trying to login clicking the MediaWiki sunflower button at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/auth/start/ ? If this is the case, then I need to know your Phabricator username in order to delete it and bring you back to square one. By the way, feel free to use mw:Talk:Phabricator/Help for further Phabricator questions. You might get faster and better answers from other contributors. Thank you for your interest in using Phabricator!--Qgil-WMF (talk) 11:05, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The wrong e-mail i registered myself is: dstslashace[at]hotmail.com. Thank you very much for your help.--LikeLifer (talk) 18:13, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Reported: T87092.--Qgil-WMF (talk) 09:43, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ LikeLifer, I'm sorry that it took so long.--Qgil-WMF (talk) 22:05, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Excellent, thank you.--LikeLifer (talk) 20:39, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject X#WikiProject mailing lists
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject X. Thanks. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 23:15, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Earth system science
Dear Qgil-WMF -

You long ago made a great contribution to the article on Earth system science, when you added a section called "Inspiration in the Gaia theory." I wanted you to be aware of current activities involving it: everything you did with that section was removed completely by Toby Tyrrell back in November of 2014, with a brief comment that it was irrelevant. Tyrrell is a leading critic of Gaia theory, with a book purporting to "disprove" it. I found this to be an egregious conflict of interest, and complained about it when I noticed it early this summer. I then wrote a new and more in-depth section based on yours - but with your Amsterdam Declaration section made into its own separate section, etc. I also added a lot of non-Gaia material to the whole ESS entry.

Anyhow, the Gaia material has been continuously removed and the subject of more or less constant edit warring since. If you care about this material, it could surely use more editors who don't exactly want to expunge "Gaia" from the discussion!! Very best, Terradactyl (talk) 02:01, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

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Community Relations
I see you've read my comments on the Community Relations talk page at Meta. Another outdated page is your userpage, which doesn't mention your role in Community Relations, or anything about whatever it is that Community Relations does. As you may have seen on 's talk page, she has said that responses to posts on her talk page will come from Community Relations. She also said that "They [Community Relations] brief me weekly on what’s going on, and highlight when there’s something I should be engaging with directly". I think it would be helpful to the Community to know the content of these briefings, not least so we can be assured that Community Relations is in tune with the Community. As it is, almost none of us know anything about what it does. I've been on Wikipedia for years and the first I heard of it was Katherine's post. DuncanHill (talk) 09:14, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, the Community Relations team supports other teams and is rarely on the spotlight, and this is fine. Also, we had other names before: Technical Collaboration, Community Liaisons, Developer Relations... But this doesn't really matter. To your question, our priority is to work on a process to collect community news that the Foundation shouldn't miss. This process should be public, and I agree with you on the usefulness of having volunteers involved and able to verify that the news selected are "in tune" with the communities interests and priorities. Our executive team, Katherine included, would receive a weekly summary of these news (maybe a selection if there are too many, they can always access the full list of weekly news). I want to stress that the solution to your concerns is not to know what exactly is being brought to Katherine's attention alone, but what is brought to the attention of the Foundation teams and their executives. Qgil-WMF (talk) 10:22, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you that sounds very constructive. DuncanHill (talk) 14:08, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
 * If it were to be a particular selection, would this selection be public? About the current situation: Given that the briefing process exists now, I think it's very important for these to be made public, even before the new system is implemented. You could just post it on any wiki page, it would take like ten seconds. --Yair rand (talk) 03:16, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Yair rand, you ask a very good question. I am answering it at T227204 because the scope of the answer goes well beyond this Talk page and English Wikipedia, and others might be interested. Qgil-WMF (talk) 10:01, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I'm disappointed that we won't be able to see it, but I understand the reasoning and appreciate the explanation. --Yair rand (talk) 23:16, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Pings at the Village pump (WMF)
Hi Qgil. Just as a follow-up to this discussion, I understood from your table analogy that I might have done something untoward in pinging the responsible WMF staff member. If so could you please explain where I went wrong and what a better way to go about drawing WMF staff's attention would be in future (if that's appropriate at all)? Thanks. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 15:36, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Joe! In the table analogy (and in the actual discussion it refers to) there is nothing wrong about the person starting the conversation and the person pinging (asking directly). I just wanted to stress how addressing a reasonable request enters in conflict with ignoring disrespectful comments. What could be a rather practical conversation clarifying what happened and why and how to improve... becomes basically yet another scenario for confrontation. I picked this example not because I see in it a strong violation of civility, but precisely because it is a simple and small example, easy to isolate from Big Ongoing Discussions. Your comment is perfectly ok, and I hope there is a time and a place when we can discuss about it just normally, cordially. Also thank you for reaching out and giving me a chance to clarify my words. Qgil-WMF (talk) 16:20, 10 July 2020 (UTC)