I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation (the Director of Community Advocacy). This user name, Philippe, represents my personal account. That is, all edits that I make under this user name are made only in my individual, personal capacity as a volunteer, administrator, or otherwise regular member of the community. When I use this user name, I am not acting as an employee, representative, or agent of Wikimedia Foundation, unless it is noted on this log and pre-approved by the Wikimedia Foundation's general counsel. Certain actions may be referenced with an OTRS number: if that's the case, please do me the courtesy of checking with me before reverting or changing. Official acts by me in the line of my work will be done from my office account, User:Philippe (WMF). On very rare occasions, and with the prior approval of the Wikimedia Foundation's counsel, official acts may be done from this account. In such cases, beginning on 4/1/2011, I will log those here.
Admin statistics
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15438
Edits+Deleted
18754
Pages deleted
4765
Pages restored
67
Pages protected
479
Pages unprotected
40
Protections modified
55
Users blocked
1606
Users reblocked
9
Users unblocked
72
User rights modified
14
Users created
2
About me
I am the Director of Community Advocacy for the Wikimedia Foundation. My role is to represent, on the staff, the voice and needs of the vast majority of the users of Wikimedia projects: the readers who rarely or never edit. I can be reached via email at philippewikimedia.org or on my meta talk page. In my volunteer capacity, I can usually be found on en:Wikipedia or meta, where I am an elected administrator. I previously was, by virtue of my job, a bureaucrat on the Wikimedia Strategic Planning wiki.
I was a member of the election committee for the Board of Trustees in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and am the staff liaison to the committee for 2011.
You can find me on en:Wikipedia as Philippe as a volunteer, or as Philippe (WMF) in my staff role. On IRC, my username is usually Philippe.
Follow me on identi.ca and Twitter! My username is philippewiki in both places.
On en:Wikipedia, I am an administrator (and very much appreciate the support that the community showed in my RfA) and a member of the OTRS team. If you run across an OTRS edit of mine, I request that you contact me before reverting or changing it - there may be privacy concerns involved or other reasons that the edit needs to stay as it is, but I'm happy to talk to you about it (without divulging any confidential information) if you have a question.
Unrelated to my on-wiki stuff, the important things to know, I suppose, are that I'm in San Francisco, California.
I have two favorite mottos, which I have stolen from others and have printed on various things: A domino factum est istud et mirabile in oculis nostris. (from Elizabeth I) and Plus est en vous (from various sources in Bourgundy).
Thank you, Philippe, for always being kind, encouraging, and helpful to me ever since I met you, and I'm glad I ever met you. You're a great admin and person for that matter. And for that, I award you "The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar"! -- RyRy5 (talk ♠ Review) 21:34, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
The Real-Life Barnstar
For handling a crazy election with grace & aplomb. And all the other reasons :) phoebe / (talk to me) 21:57, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Your work as an admin is invaluable to the Wikipedia community. Keep up the good work! Eustress (talk) 00:26, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For reverting vandalism a couple of times on my userpage, and for continued efforts to stop vandalism here on Wikipedia, I - Milk'sFavoriteCookie hereby award you this barnstar. Congrats! - Milk'sFavoriteCookie 23:33, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Good Humor
I see that you semi-protected the article Halloween with the reason "Here we go again". This made me smile and laugh. NHRHS2010talk 23:04, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I'm awarding you this RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your great contributions to protecting and reverting attacks of vandalism on Wikipedia. Wikidudeman(talk) 22:18, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thank you all for helping out. Becuase I (probably) suffered the most from that IP address, I,Goodshoped35110s, give you all the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar! (yay.) :) --Goodshoped35110s 04:23, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar
For all your hard work at RFPP. Should I just take it off my watchlist, since you seem to answer every request anyway? :) ~ Riana ⁂ 04:50, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
The Real-Life Barnstar
For handling a crazy election with grace & aplomb. And all the other reasons :) phoebe / (talk to me) 21:57, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
User toolbox
This is nothing but a stolen toolbox that contains some of the tools that I use most often (and have used most often since long before I was an admin. The credit goes to User:Fuhghettaboutit.