User talk:Quiddity

Nominated for Tool Labs standards committee

You have been nominated as a possible member of the Tool Labs standards committee. If you are interested in participating in the committee, please take a minute to sign the nomination. --BryanDavis (talk) 19:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Approved to join the Tool Labs standards committee

Congratulations! The WMF would like to appoint you to join the Tool Labs standards committee as a founding member. The initial policies state that the Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer NDA must be signed by a nominee before being appointed. We have created task T154625 to track the process of making sure that everyone has signed the NDA agreement. If you know that you have not yet signed the Volunteer NDA, please create the initial request to start the process. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me on my talk page, by email, or on irc as appropriate. I look forward to working with you to make Tool Labs better. --BryanDavis (talk) 23:32, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Welcome to Tool Labs

Hello Quiddity, welcome to the Tool Labs project! Your request for access was processed and you should be able to log in now with ssh at login.tools.wmflabs.org. To get started, check the help page. You can also ask in our IRC channel at #wikimedia-labs ^connect or send an e-mail to our mailing list labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org – thank you, and have fun using Tools! --Tim Landscheidt (talk) 16:19, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Zoranzoki21 (talk) 20:12, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Source code

Shalom!

we need this source code tool for urwiki. Can you help us?--BukhariSaeed (talk) 13:29, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

@BukhariSaeed: Hi, the maintainers of that tool are listed at https://tools.wmflabs.org/admin/tool/rezabot - those username links go to their pages on this wiki. It would probably be best to start with Reza themself. :) Quiddity (talk) 19:11, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

todah rabah :) --BukhariSaeed (talk) 07:28, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Revert

Thank you for your revert. I made a mistake. Zixuan 23:12, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Block evasion?

Hi. I've just found https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Zixuan75 which might be a reincarnation of the same account without the numbers you blocked a couple of days ago. Regards, MarcoAurelio (talk) 17:05, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Please block Special:Contributions/Zhong_Yuru

It is sock of Special:Contributions/顓如. see phab:T215137.--A2093064 (talk) 03:34, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

@A2093064: blocked here and there. Thanks. Quiddity (talk) 04:35, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Hello, Quiddity. Please check your email; you've got mail! --MCC214 (talk) 09:58, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Any informations about Wikitech's EDP available?

m:Non-free content says that Wikitech allows local uploading files, but nothing available regarding EDP of this site, do we have any ideas on such a policy on this site? Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:43, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

@Liuxinyu970226 Not within my areas of expertise. I suggest asking at Talk:Main Page. Cheers, Quiddity (talk) 23:54, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

I can say that as far as I know no one has ever written an Exemption Doctrine Policy for Wikitech. This wiki is under the Wikimedia umbrella, but it has (at least historically) not been treated as a Wikimedia project. It is a bit more like a collection of system administration notes that has grown organically over time. This wiki was promoted to be more visible to technical volunteers outside of those directly involved in system administration somewhere along the way (circa 2011-2012?) as it also became associated with the OpenStack system we now call Cloud VPS. That expansion of intended audience did not to my knowledge come with any strong discussion of adopting other Wikimedia project practices like an EDP. -- BryanDavis (talk) 16:31, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

@Liuxinyu970226 ping2, in case you didn't see this second reply. Quiddity (talk) 18:02, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Thank you for your 7.5 years(!) of service on the Toolforge standards committee. The technical community and the wikis are better for your help. -- BryanDavis (talk) 21:22, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Did you mean to attach your account to SUL before renaming?

Your 'Quiddity' Developer account has been associated with the 'Quiddity (WMF)' SUL account using the idm.wikimedia.org account management tool. While attempting to rename the legacy 'Quiddity' Wikitech account I found that it has already been attached to a SUL account with the same name. It is not clear if this SUL attachment was a delibrate choice you made or if it was a side effect of a confusing migration from Developer accounts to SUL accounts here on Wikitech.

If you feel this was an error, and that you would like to have the 'Quiddity' Wikitech account renamed to match the previously claimed 'Quiddity (WMF)' SUL account, please leave a comment on phab:T386026 stating "Please detach 'Quiddity' from SUL, rename it to 'Quiddity (WMF)', and reattach to SUL."

If you deliberately attached the 'Quiddity' Wikitech account to a matching SUL account, or if you don't much care either way, congratulations you don't need to do anything at all. -- BryanDavis (talk) 22:20, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Deliberate, almost all of my edits here are/were volunteer-hat. Thanks for checking though! Quiddity (talk) 00:30, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Admin process unification

A bunch of us noticed Wikitech:Administrators#Appointment and Wikitech:Village_pump provide incompatible processes for becoming an admin. Do you think we could unify? I don't know which is better, as one has not been used before and may gone unnoticed, other is more bureaucratic.

But I was about to propose a person for admin, so wanting your ok for how to do it. -- JCrespo (WMF) (talk) 10:23, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes, please do unify! I think the version at the Village_pump was experimental, and only I've edited it, so please do change Wikitech:Village pump/Header however needed to unify it with the on-Phab process.

(I also note that nobody has actually used the experimental Wikitech:Village pump at all in the 9 months since we created it (via the discussion at Wikitech talk:Administrators#Village pump or Admin request pages), so that page is also reasonable to re-evaluate, if/when anyone desires to change things. The goal of that page was mainly just to make it easy for non-admins to [find where to] request assistance with things!) Quiddity (talk) 18:50, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

@JCrespo (WMF) I edited the Village pump header to point to the process on Wikitech:Administrators instead of suggesting discussion on wiki.

The Phabricator process is what has been used in the past when someone from the larger Wikimedia community has been interested in having advanced rights on wikitech. For WMF and affiliate staff the process has been relatively loose at most points in time. We had a standing practice for years of granting any WMF SRE who wanted the hat full sysop without really any further scrutiny.

There was once a good technical reason (possible Developer account credential capture) to closely limit who had interface admin rights here. That reason was eliminated when we migrated wikitech to using SUL accounts. I would still be wary of handing out interface admin widely, but only because of the normal concerns around editing global javascript. There is still some security sensitive content stored on wikitech with sysop rights level needed for editing (mostly Help:SSH Fingerprints subpages). -- BryanDavis (talk) 20:54, 7 January 2026 (UTC)