Wikia - creating communities

These are the people who are working for Wikia, Inc.

[edit] Community Team

The Wikia Community Team answers questions, helps new wikis get off the ground, provides assistance with logos and templates, passes on technical requests and bug reports, patrols for spam and vandalism, answers requests for new wikis, and much more.

The Community Team is here to help with any issues on any Wikia site. The team spans five continents (North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia). Let us know how we can help you with your wiki and community. Please see below for the best ways to contact us.

Angela Beesley leads the Wikia Community Team. Angela is the co-founder of Wikia and Vice President of Community Relations. Talk page	Sannse (Lisa Carter) joined Wikia in February 2006, having edited Wikipedia for over four years. She focuses on providing in-depth support to Wikia's largest wikis. Talk page
KaurJmeb joined Wikia in May 2006 to help develop the Chinese section of the site and to support Chinese speaking users on the wikis. She edits on the Chinese Wikipedia, and also keeps a blog Talk page	Juan David Ruiz (Zuirdj) joined Wikia's community team in September 2006. Juan David speaks Spanish, English, and Portuguese, and understands some Italian and French. He is active on the Spanish Wikipedia. Talk page
Catherine Munro joined Wikia's Community Team in March 2007. Catherine is a long time editor of Wikipedia and a former member of Wikipedia's Mediation Committee. Talk page	Shun Fukuzawa (Yukichi) joined Wikia in May 2007. Shun has been editing the Japanese Wikipedia as Yukichi99 since September 2005. Shun also has a lot of experience in the open source world, having been involved with the Mozilla, Fedora, and Kazehakase communities. Talk page
Tim Bartel (Avatar) joined Wikia in February 2008. He is one of the first still active Wikipedians in Germany and board member of Wikimedia Deutschland. As Wikia's Country Manager for Germany he is the main contact person for the German Wikia Community. Talk page	Justin Lynn (JSharp) joined Wikia's Community Team in February 2008. Justin has been an active Wikia editor since May of 2007 and particularly enjoys the technical aspects of wiki maintenance and manipulation. Justin strives to help Wikia contributors and founders create responsive and accommodating community environments. Talk page

[edit] Technical Team

The Wikia Technical Team keeps our servers running smoothly, monitors the sites for problems, and continually works on new features.

John Q. Smith (Johnq), VP Product	Emil Podlaszewski (Emil), Product development
Artur Bergman (crucially), Dir. Engineering and Operations	Andrew Yasinsky, Product Development
Inez Korczyński (Inez), Product development	Lidija Arsic, Office Manager
Christian Williams (BladeBronson), Designer and Front-end engineer	Aaron Drake, Technical
Przemek Piotrowski (Ppiotr, nef), Product development.	Piotr Molski (Moli), Product development
Lucas Garczewski (TOR), Product development	Maciej Brencz (Macbre), Product development
Bartek Łapiński (Bartek), Product development	Paweł Rein, Operations
Przemysław Malkowski (Przemek), Ops	Krzysztof Krzyżaniak (eloy), Product development
Maciej Błaszkowski (Marooned), Product development	Lukasz Galezewski (Lukasz), Quality assurance

[edit] Behind The Scenes Team

• Jimmy Wales, Co-founder and Board chair
• Jeremie Miller, Search

[edit] San Francisco Office Gil Penchina, Chief Executive Officer Michael Davis, Chief Operating Officer Greg Lanz, VP of Sales Bill Kaufmann, Community, Verticals, and Marketing John Q. Smith, Product, Engineering, and Operations Angie Shelton, Gaming Diane Murphy, Office Manager Artur Bergman, Engineering and Operations Christian Williams, Designer Danny Horn, Community Development Manager Kyle Harmon, Gaming Douglas Kennedy, Gaming

[edit] New York Office Aaron Wright Dan Lewis David Pean Rob Lefkowitz Jeff Tierney