recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Ania Murawska

Ania is an engineering manager on the Apps team at Wikia.  The Apps team is responsible for developing and maintaining all Wikia mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms which sum up to a total of over 400 apps.

## History

Before joining Wikia, back in the days when Ania was just starting her professional career she worked as a database administrator at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a pharmaceutical giant from UK. She then moved on to software development and initially worked as a C# developer at Mobile Labs at Poznan University of Technology. After getting her first project in mobile technologies - an automotive Android application she found her passion and stayed in the world of mobile. Right before joining Wikia, she worked as an Android developer at Allegro, an e-commerce company based in Poland.

## At Community Connect

Ania is excited to be participating in Community Connect and having a chance to talk about the apps at Wikia. She will be co-hosting Apps at Wikia.
Garrett Totcky

Garrett "Tots" Totcky is a community manager at Gamepedia and Fandom. Aside from working with the community, Tots also handles support issues, running contests, and manages the Gamepedia Fellowship.

## History

Tots started in the games industry 10 years ago as a Game Master on the MMORPG Darkfall. Over the years he worked with various studios including NCSoft, Wargaming, Turbine, and more. Over the years his work evolved from support into more community-centric work. Most recently he worked with the US Army on their game America's Army before joining the Fandom family.

On the side Tots produces, edits, and co-hosts multiple gaming related podcasts covering topics from game development to tabletop gaming.

## Community Connect Involvement

Tots will be working with Gamepedia editors to discuss the future as we look towards the new Unified Community Platform.
JSBM

JSBM is the annoying guy from Minecraft Wiki FR that likes to complains about everything. He has over 50 billions edits on his wiki. (No, don't check, please, just trust me. I'm not at all ashamed of how little I contributed recently, nope...)

He's particularly interested about how Fandom handles the management and independence of the communities and about non-english wikis. Also, he is also the creator of the best userpage ever, and he invented the "giant chicken everywhere" fashion trend that is so popular today. If you see a giant chicken on your Wiki, thanks JSBM.
Community Connect 2015

Community Connect 2015 was an invite-only gathering for admins of both new and established wikis to meet and connect with one another, as well as Wikia staff from our Community, Product and Marketing teams. Taking place at the Wikia headquarters in San Francisco, the goal of the event was to facilitate a direct, in-person dialogue with a mix of contributors to get a better understanding of what is important to them, and to share insights to our product roadmap for the development of the Wikia platform.

During the 3-day event, admins had the opportunity to participate in work sessions centered around Wikia’s plans for the coming year, including product vision, changes and improvements to the site, mobile productivity, community best practices, and more.

To see everything everything related to Community Connect 2015, visit Category:Community Connect 2015.

Check out a post about the Community Connect 2015 on the Wikia Staff Blog.
Charles Miller

## History

> *…because the thing that Usenet did, the important thing that Usenet did that put everything else to shame, was that it provided a way for all of the cool people in the world to actually meet each other.* — "A Rant", Russ Allbery, news.admin.net-abuse.usenet, March 1998
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Ever since I found (and was immediately hooked on) Usenet in the early 90s, I've been obsessed with software that gave people around the world a place they could communicate and collaborate with people they would never have met in their offline lives, and hopefully build something bigger than any of them.

Some time around 2000 I discovered this odd website called "The Wiki Wiki Web" that allowed anyone to edit it, but somehow was the home to intelligent and honest discussion, and became the first real home of "Agile" software development.

And now I've been writing Wiki software for almost fifteen years, first for companies that wanted to tap into the spirit of open collaboration inside their own businesses, and now as software architect for Wikia, helping us find new ways to put better tools into the hands of our community.

> *I've been through pain and joy with this network, I've seen communities form and wither and reform, I've met friends and lost friends here, I've learned things and discovered things and created things. I've seen people make a home here when they didn't have any other, not on a newsgroup, not with a bunch of electrons, but with people that they've met and communities that they've found and support that they've received from people who had just the words they needed to hear and would never have known they existed.* — Ibid.
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## At Community Connect

Come listen to me ramble on about matters technical at the San Francisco Ask Me Anything Panel Session (2016), or just find me hoving around the SF office watching things happen. 🐠🍺
Breanna Freeze

### **Hobbies**

Playin games, watching Soul's lore videos, overthinking, reading fairy romance IYKYK, drinking Dr. Pepper

### **User name**

Bfreeziepop

**Breanna Freeze** aka freeziepop is a newly hired staff noob. Her role at Fandom is top secret for now, but will be revealed at this year’s Community Connect...jk they told her she could tell you but she is trying to be mysterious. Please just go along with it for her enjoyment.

Find her at the event and she may spill the beans early!

## Trivia

* She has a bona fide southern accent that some say sounds Alabamian...
* She claims she can quote the majority of the Lord of the Rings EXTENDED edition trilogy
* She is disappointed her first name isn't as cool as her last name, ba dum tss
* Her deep dark gaming obsession is playing otome games
* She took violin lessons for years just to play songs from *Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-*
* She believes the 2003 version of Fullmetal Alchemist is better than Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (sorry Arakawasan!)
* She was the social media and community manager of an online FPS series
* She sucks at FPS games
* Her shoe size is women's 5
* She folds her straw wrappers into paper flowers for waiters
* The Trivia section of wikis is her favorite, can you tell?
Chen Shen

Chen joined Wikia on July, 2013 as a Community Development Associate and has been continually supporting all teams within the company on all International projects in Chinese.

## History

Chen was born in northern China and immigrated to the U.S. in 2008. Before joining Wikia, he worked in TV industry and fashion industry for a few years and then switched to digital media. When he is not at work, he likes archery and creating stuff with wires and clay. He also loves coffee, tea and all kinds of desserts.

## Community Connect Involvement

Chen is here to support our Chinese admins and users whenever they need help.
MJLogan95

**Logan**, also known as **MJLogan95**, is a former Wiki Specialist at Fandom and a member of Fandom Stars.

## History

Logan created his account in 2010 to edit a little on the Inkheart wiki. In 2014, Logan dusted off the old Fandom account when he started watching *Boy Meets World* and noticed that the Boy Meets World wiki was abandoned and in disarray. His only prior wiki editing experience being adding a few lines and creating one page on a wiki back in 2010, Logan tried filling out the BMW wiki and applied to adopt it, which was approved.

In 2015, Logan became a big fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe wiki and began to heavily contribute there. This is where he cut his teeth when it came to editing, Manual of Style, templates, etc. and has made over 100,000 constructive edits. His contributions there were quite frequent to the point where he got Wiki badges for making an edit there every day for a year (and has probably done so several times since.)

In 2018, Logan began revamping the Animorphs Wiki as that series was his favorite as a child. As many pages hadn't been edited since 2007, he made the wiki more presentable, but as he was doing the work by himself, he could not flesh out the content as much he wanted.

In 2019, Logan was appointed by Fandom as one of its Content Team Members (now known as Wiki Specialists). His work on the MCU wiki also began escalating this year as he extensively covered more of the older Marvel Television shows. From 2020 onward, Logan spent most of his time on Fandom and became a highly valued member of the MCU wiki community; he was among the first batch of users to be granted content moderator privileges under the current administration.

In 2023, Logan was invited to the Fandom Stars members program. While he was glad his refurbishment of the Animorphs Wiki in 2018 was decent enough when the early pandemic resulted in a surge of visitors, he was also disappointed that the Animorphs Wiki was not entirely fleshed out. Logan is currently re-reading every book and summarizing every single chapter as well in order to add all relevant info to all pages, as well as reading the graphic novels and uploading relevant images from it. It is a long and arduous mission to single-handedly destub every page on the wiki, but one that will be worth it in the end.

Logan attended Community Connect 2023 in Atlanta.
Product and Engineering Roadmap 2022

**Product and Engineering Roadmap 2022** is an overview from a number of our Product and Engineering leaders of the new roadmap that they will be working on for the rest of the year and into 2023. This will be attendees' first look at how Fandom's product offering will be evolving in "The Next Frontier" and will be followed by breakout sessions.

## Presenters

* Quincy Carroll, Chief Product Officer
* Jerry Fan, Senior Director of Product, Engagement and Platform
* Brian Johnson, VP of Product Design
* Adam Goldband, VP of Engineering
Челан

**Челан** (англ. Chelan, яп. シェラン) - ангел, живущий в одном доме с демоном по имени Диало. В игре появляется лишь как второстепенный персонаж, но в одной из глав становится героем, за которого можно играть.

## Личность

**Челан** - тихий и милый персонаж. Она спокойна и сдержанна. Практически всегда выглядит счастливой. Она практически не разговаривает, но Диало как-то полностью её понимает. Общается она, кивая или качая головой.

Её хобби - это готовить вместе с Диало.

## Внешний вид

У Челан глаза цвета морской волны, короткие светлые волосы. Она ходит в синем платье с высоким воротником, украшенном белыми узорами в виде крестов, и в синих ботинках с крылышками. В отличие от многих других ангелов, она носит свой нимб. У неё есть небольшие белые крылья.

## Прошлое

Челан является реинкарнацией своего предка, Сиель. Она сражалась в Великой войне на стороне Этив и погибла. После войны богиня дала некоторым павшим ангелам и демонам новую жизнь.

## Отношения

### Диало

Близкая подруга Челан, с которой те живут вместе. Челан любит помогать готовить Диало, и она, судя по всему, единственная кому Челан когда-то что-то говорила.

### Этив

Её бог, у них довольно хорошие отношения.

### Сиель

Предок Челан, погибший во время войны, сражаясь на стороне Этив.

## Интересные факты

* Она ничего не ненавидит.
* На самом деле, у неё очень милый голос.
Daniel Grunwell

**Daniel Grunwell**, also known as **Grunny**, is a VP of Engineering at Fandom, working with teams like User Generated Content and User Experience. He is also an administrator on Wookieepedia, where he was an editor an admin prior to joining Fandom's Community team and later the Engineering team in 2011.
LynnE216

I got sucked into *Critical Role* in August 2018 when my son said, "Hey, Mom, watch this clip!" and it's been a major part of my life ever since then. I found the CR Wiki very early on, but was totally clueless about wikis and my first contributions were anonymous typo fixes, slowly moving into more substantive edits, creating a user name, and all that good stuff. Somehow, I got promoted to admin, and now scarily find myself a bureaucrat.

I'm also old. Like really, really old. Like "wrote fanfic for Star Trek when there was only TOS" old. But under that wizened exterior beats the heart of a Fan. You Are My People.
Brandon Rhea

> "I've never seen more donuts than last weekend"
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> Brandon Rhea, regarding the many varieties of donuts at the 2022 Community Connect

**Brandon Rhea** is VP of Community at Fandom. He oversees all of the Community teams, many of whom will be at Community Connect 2023!

## History at Fandom

Brandon first joined Fandom (then-Wikia) in 2006 as a user on the *Star Wars* Fanon Wiki, where he later became an admin. In 2010 Brandon joined the Community Support team part-time. After college, he joined full-time and was a Community Manager working with Support, Product, Marketing, and Editorial; a Senior Manager of Content Production, overseeing the Featured Video team; a Product Marketing Manager, working most closely with the Community Council and Product team; VP of TV, Movies, and Anime, overseeing those vertical teams; and as of 2020, VP of Community. He also occasionally contributes to Wookieepedia. He is known to carry a book of witchcraft with him, containing the names of his victims.

## Community Connect involvement

Brandon has been involved in Community Connect each year of its existence, though did not attend the Poznan event in 2016. He led Community Connect 2020 with Tim Quievryn and alongside John Todd they joined forces again for Community Connect 2021 and Community Connect 2022, working alongside our Community, Product, Marketing, and Events teams. For Community Connect 2023, you'll see him throughout the event including the kickoff and several sessions after that.

## Facts About Brandon

* Brandon is an Eagle Scout.
* Brandon has done a 100+ mile hike in the Rocky Mountains—twice.
* Brandon has played football on the National Mall.
* Brandon's only job interview was Sannse saying "I like your tone, do you want to answer support emails at Wikia?"
* Brandon once wanted to be president of the United States because George W. Bush had a cool jacket and Brandon wanted one too.
* Contrary to the rumors you may have heard, Brandon is not a witch.
Brainstorming on Steroids: Intro to 10x Content

## Overview

Learn how to leverage SEO (search engine optimization) best practices when creating Fandom content.

## Resources

Moz SEO Toolbar can be used to conduct competitive analysis in Chrome or Firefox. Wikia has a domain authority of 81, so a high-quality article on Fandom has a good chance to outrank competitors with less domain authority.

Answer the Public is a search query data visualization tool that maps the keyword suggestions users see when performing a Google or Bing search. Questions found here can be a great starting point a Fandom article.

Google Trends can be used to research global and regional search trends and to compare the interest between search terms. Parts of this tool are in beta, so search options and available data are subject to change.

Google Keyword Planner
This tool requires a registered Google account to log in. Prompted to enter credit card info? Click the "skip the guided tour" link at the top to load the next page; Keyword Planner can be found under "Tools" in the top navigation. This tool has a ton of features and filters, but simple searches are a breeze.

* Choose "Search for new keyword using a phrase, website or category" at the top of the "Find new keywords" section.
* Enter one term or multiple terms into the search box and hit "Get ideas."
* Click the "Keyword ideas" tab in the middle of the page to see the results.

## Presentation Slides

The presentation is available in .pdf format here (can be opened in browser).
Emptylord

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**Emptylord** (sometimes '3mptylord' or 'The Empty Lord') is an administrator on the League of Legends Wiki. He previously worked as a Wiki Manager in the Gaming vertical, but was made redundant during the 2020 Pandemic.

He has regrets that he didn't have better documentation and naming standards when he first began editing, although enjoys template creation enough that starting from scratch is always a welcomed option.

Likes to think he has a good grasp on user-experience, although his ability to implement his vision is limited by the platform and loathes that the range of in-use screen resolutions has been on the climb, after a previous trend of plummeting. Likes to play Devil's Advocate as a means of problem solving - i.e. applying QA background/lateral-thinking skills to try and break my own ideas. I have made a concerted effort to avoid doing this in conversation with others unless I've explicitly forewarned them, since I've come to understand it reads as abrasive. Feels like he's still "in touch" with the people on the ground and will call-out ideas that have evolved beyond the scope.

Communities you may recognise me from:

* RuneScape (pre-Old School era; once-admin of the retired Suggestion Guild) or OSRS (lockdown resurgence)
* League of Legends (Wiki admin; and EUW player)
* ARK: Survival Evolved (retired Gamepedia administrator; volunteer editor for the ARK Additions mod; and community administrator for Prodigy Gaming Canada player community)
* Warframe (Reddit/forums)
* The ~100 communities I managed during my time as a Wiki Manager, including: Sonic, GTA and The Isle.

Failed to follow pre-flight preparation instructions and—after a quiet lament on the bench outside the airport—wasn't able to attend Community Connect 2022 in-person.
Mandy Olson

### **Hobbies**

Drawing, roller skating, binging shows/movies to an unhealthy degree, and bullying Mike Delaney

### **User name**

idekmandy

**Mandy Olson** is the Senior Community Manager, Entertainment working on the Community Experience team. Her mission is to provide the best fan experience for the top Movies, TV, Books, Music, and Lifestyle wikis, but she is also passionate about celebrating and serving the global Fandom community through her various Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts. Outside of Fandom, you can probably find her binging horror films, making fan art, or getting tattoos. Sometimes all at once.

## History

Mandy joined Fandom in 2015 and has been hooked ever since. She first started out spending WAY too much time discussing theories on various wiki forums, before eventually becoming addicted to wiki editing. She has been an admin on a wide variety of Movies/TV wikis throughout the years, but her claim to wiki fame was resurrecting the ~~RuPaul's~~ Drag Race Wiki from the dead and building it into the empire it is today, which is how she got offered a Wiki Manager position in 2019. In 2020, she became a full-time Staff member, and she still can't believe she actually got hired here. It feels like a fever dream.

## Community Connect Involvement

Mandy attended both virtual Community Connect 2021 events, but Community Connect 2022 was her first IRL Connect experience, where she participated in the Fandom Through the Years panel, and totally did not cry afterwards at the amount of applause she received. If at any point you saw her walking around in a messy bun wearing sunglasses indoors... no you didn't.

## Trivia

* She grew up in one of the saddest cities in the U.S. (yes, that is a real thing)
* Her username is based on the "I don't know her" Mariah Carey meme.
* She is a huge fan of horror and has essentially made it her entire personality.
	+ SAW is her ultimate horror obsession, and she also happens to be an admin on SAW Wiki.
* She's a Scorpio, if that wasn't already obvious.
* She is stuck in a perpetual emo phase.
* Rap God is her go-to karaoke song.
* She has been a self-taught portrait artist since age 10.
* She led the creation of the LGBTQIA+ Wiki, which has been one of her favorite projects to date.
* She slept on the streets of NYC for 9 whole days just to get front row tickets to see the original Broadway cast of Hamilton before they left the production. If that doesn't prove her level of insanity, I don't know what does.
* Her tattoos do not have meaning, so don't bother asking. She simply had money and no one stopped her.
* Her (not so) hidden talent is being able to cry on command.
* She loves using her double jointed knees to freak people out.
* Itsbartbytheway is her sworn mortal enemy.

## Testimonials

“For what it’s worth Mandy I think you’d be an excellent cult leader”
—Tim Quievryn
“i had no idea you were like the jeff bezos of animal crossing”
—Brian Linder
“today I learned you’re a sociopath”
—Brandon Rhea
“you're a little witch”
—Ludwik Kazmierczak
Antvasima

### **Job Title**

Fandom Community Councilor (Former), Fandom Stars member (Current), VS Battles and Tenchi Muyo wiki bureaucrat

### **Hobbies**

Wiki editing, reading, music, cartoons, downslope skiing, diving, dogs, nature, travel, exercise, meditation, billiards

### **User name**

Antvasima

**Antvasima**, most commonly called *Ant* by his community, is a former Fandom Community Council member, a current Fandom Stars member, and a bureaucrat for the VS Battles and Tenchi Muyo wikis.

He joined Fandom on January 5, 2014, and stumbled upon the VS Battles wiki on March 3, 2014, which gradually became a focus for his obsessive autistic perfectionism, likely due to a combination of his interest in accurately indexing statistics and growing up with the old Marvel Comics handbooks.

Given that the wiki features characters from several hundreds of different fictional story settings, he has not focused on personally vainly attempting to evaluate and decide their statistics, but rather on paying attention to find members who are highly knowledgeable in different areas, ranging from mathematics, to abstract metaphysical philosophy, to in-depth analysis of the wide variety of fictional settings themselves, deferring to their expertise in these areas, promoting the most rational, reliable, and levelheaded among them to a very large staff, and then doing his best to help keep the community as a whole organised via the wiki's discussion forum, in addition to handling most of the daily edit-patrolling work for the community, and gradually defining a large part of the fundamental structure of the wiki as a whole.

He is a massive workhorse, and has worked an average of 10-12 hours a day, 7 days a week, with upholding his Fandom duties since late in 2014, and the VS Battles wiki has grown to around 100 times the popularity it had when he first came there.

His current favourite fictions are the One Piece manga, The Wheel of Time novels, Phineas and Ferb, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Galaxy, the original Ni no Kuni game, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and Hayao Miyazaki's animated movies.

He enjoys diving, downslope skiing, nature walks, relaxing music, meditation, singing, and crosstrainer exercise. He is also a big friend of animals, particularly dogs, and leads a healthy vegetarian lifestyle.

Connects Attended:

* 2021
* 2022
Misteraday (attendee)

Misteraday is a Fandom contributor.

## Bio

Misteraday was there when Michael Jackson's hair caught fire. He was front man for international recording artists "*Cobra Kai*" and is CEO of *West Coast Innovation*. He may be the only person at this event that liked *Dawn of Justice*. Misteraday is kind to animals.
Christy Shannon

### **Hobbies**

Running, Dining Outdoors, Listening to Music (Indie, Jazz, Rap and anything in between)

### **Hometown**

This is tough. California is my home, but I was born in Illinois and have lived in Maine, New York and Arizona. I currently live in San Diego.

### **User name**

Cshannon

**Christy** was the VP of marketing at Wikia, which included things like branding, public relations, events, social media and product marketing. She joined Wikia as a consultant over three years ago and quickly joined as a full-time employee because of her love for the company and brand.

She was incredibly passionate about the future of Wikia and Fandom and looked forward to talking more about both at Community Connect.

## A little about Christy

Christy has lived in five states and 15 houses. Moving seems to be a pastime. The constant in her life, though, is her husband of nearly 14 years, three kids and dog.

While Christy's life (see above) doesn't currently allow for as much TV and movie consumption as she'd like, she finds a spare moment for favorite shows like House of Cards, or historically, Mad Men, Downton Abbey, 30 Rock and Silicon Valley. And she's a constant fan of all things culture, including art, music and food.

## Community Connect involvement

Christy was really looking forward to participating in the 2016 event; welcoming and getting to know the attendees, and discussing Wikia and the Fandom brands.
Community Connect 2015 Wrap Up Video

Hi everyone! A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to host 26 admins from all over the world here in our San Francisco offices as part of our first ever Community Connect event, and we’re pleased to report that it surpassed even our own expectations! What a special treat it was to be able to “connect” with all of the visiting admins, learn from them, and spend time together in person. Check out this video featuring highlights from the event, as well as testimonials from Admin attendees:

For more on this year's event, check out my wrap up blog on Community Central.
Portability

## "**Portability: a Community Connect Town Hall**"

### **Description**

An event meant to educate, to inspire, and for us to listen and hear from you about the Mercury mobile experience for FANDOM.

### **Date**

Saturday, 19 November 2016

Presentation PDFs| * Portability, Elements and Articles
* Best Practices with Images
* Looking Forward: Portability and Mobile

"**Portability: a Community Connect Town Hall**" was a November 2016 interactive broadcast event. It was open to the general FANDOM public.

## Topics

Three presentations were given during this two hour portability festival, each followed by a session for questions and answers:

* "Portability, Elements, and Articles" by Isaac Fischer (Slides)
* "Best Practices with Images" by CzechOut (Slides)
* "Looking Forward: Portability and Mobile" by Stuart Robbins (TwoTailedFox), co-authored by Cyanide3 of Vanguard (Slides)

These presentations were geared towards editors with novice-to-moderate templating skills, with some insights for more advanced users. We also talked about how Vanguard helps communities be more portable and futureproof.

Finally, the event concluded with an Ask Me Anything style roundtable, where the presenters and special guests answered attendees' portability-related questions.
HighJewElfKing

**Charlie** is a former Movies/TV Wiki Manager and the current lead bureaucrat on South Park Archives . He also is on the Fandom Community Council.

## Bio

Charlie joined Fandom in April 2016 on South Park Archives. Previously, he edited on the South Park Studios wiki since 2015. He joined Community Council in February 2018 and joined Fandom's Movies and TV Team in May 2019 as a Wiki Manager. His favorite South Park Character is Kyle Broflovski. He loves to travel and explore new TV shows.
Lele Mj (attendee)

Lele MJ is an admin at Star Wars Wiki in portuguese. She's also a major nerd who has all the comic stores "near" the hotel mapped "for reference".

## Wikia Bio

Leonor was thirteen when she joined Wikia. At fourteen she became an admin, and has spent all these years sinking a lot of her free time into this website (successfully!). There was an attempt a branching out into other wikis, but Star Wars is her passion.

She's now working on a portal system for the canon divergence, sneaking in some time for editing.
Jamie (attendee)

## Bio

Hey there,

My name is Jamie Hari and I am the founder of the Marvel and DC Databases.

Inspired by Marvel's Handbooks and DC's Who's Who issues, I had a crazy childhood dream of creating the greatest comic book encyclopedia ever made. These days, those who are more knowledgeable than me keep these pages updated, while I contribute in other ways. You can often find me promoting our work at conventions, in the media, or to other comic book industry professionals.

It never ceases to amaze me when I see our work discussed, referenced, or linked to by fellow fans. I am perpetually motivated by the positive impact it has had, however small, on someone's enjoyment of the comic book medium.

See you around,

Jamie Hari

Founder, Editor-in-Chief

Marvel & DC Database Projects
Community/Sales Partnership Collaborations

### **Presenters**

Sadly our Sales team couldn't make it due to the US holiday weekend, so you're stuck with Brandon

### **Date**

May 28, 2021

*NOTE: Due to another session running long, "Community/Sales Partnership Collaborations" was removed from the Connect schedule. We will find another way to get the information in front of the community.*
**Community/Sales Partnership Collaborations** is all about how our Community and Sales teams—you guessed it—collaborate with one another. Brandon Rhea, VP of Community, will walk attendees through how that relationship works, how we work to build value in sales partnerships for the community, give an overview of our new super-charged gaming strategy, and share examples of entertainment partnerships we think were particularly well done.
Black Mask 2: City of Masks (film)

***Black Mask 2: City of Masks*** is a 2002 Hong Kong action film directed by Tsui Hark. It stars Tobin Bell, Jon Polito, Teresa Herrera, Tyler Mane, Rob Van Dam and Andy On. Traci Lords (credited as Traci Elizabeh Lords) appears in the film as Chameleon.

The Black Mask must stop a group intent on setting off a DNA bomb that could cause mutations to the human race.

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Pcj

**Pcj** is a wiki manager for Gamepedia.

## History

Pcj first started editing wikis in 2004. His first edit on a Wikia wiki was on WoWWiki in 2005.

Pcj developed various JavaScript features for WoWWiki, becoming an administrator in 2008. He also became increasingly involved in Community Central. In 2010, Wikia pushed out the Oasis design, and Pcj led the fork of WoWWiki, which joined Curse as Wowpedia. Wowpedia was one of the first wikis Curse hosted. This new wiki farm became Gamepedia in 2012.

Pcj was hired by Curse as a wiki manager in 2017. In 2018, the circle was completed when Fandom acquired Gamepedia.
Raylan13

Raylan is one of the Community Development Associates focused on the gaming side of things, though he is known to dabble on his own in wikias assigned to other verticals, such as the Cosplay wikia.

His primary focus and love is on all things Blizzard, be it Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, or Diablo. He positively cannot wait for the Overwatch beta to begin (or Legion!). He has played StarCraft, but would really prefer if Nova had her own game soon™.

## History

Before Raylan began working at Wikia, he was a graduate counseling student. Like almost all students graduating from university, he put his degree to good use by working... on editing and css. He's been married for quite some time and has a few wonderful, if not exhausting, toddlers. In fact, when he's not working, he's sleeping. Or trying to. Maybe. He hears sleep returns to parents when their children graduate high school.

When not actively involved in the above, he likes to read primarily fantasy and enjoys most any activity that takes place in the outdoors, so long as it doesn't carry the risk of killing him.

## Community Connect Involvement

Raylan's here to engage visitors in discussion and is happy to pass along any feedback visitors might have and help where he can.
Daeron del Doriath

**Daeron** is an italian user who began his Fandom journey in September 2011 as a member of Tolkienpedia, the Italian wiki on *The Lord of the Rings*, and became its administrator soon after. He has also been a member of the  International Volunteer Team (IVT) from January 2021 until its dissolution in August 2022.

A long time internet aficionado, he is your typical nerd. Apart from books, he likes sci-fi movies and TV shows and also enjoys a bit of coding.

Daeron attended Community Connect 2023 in Atlanta.
Sails

**Sails** are used by players to add a decorative sail to their equipped Boat. Each sail has a unique design that players can mix and match to their liking.

NOTE: A sail must be equipped to use a Boat.

## List

 ไฟล์:Shadow Sail small.png Shadow Sail | Proof that there are oceans to sail in the Everdark, Maybe.
Keiko Lai-Tong

Keiko is one of the Product Managers at Fandom, focused on creator tools, editorial products, Global Taxonomy, and internationalization.

## Background

I was born and raised in Japan, and moved to San Francisco to study trumpet performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. After being a manager of the Customer Support team at a health and beauty products company, I joined Fandom's Community Team in 2014 and transitioned to the Product team in 2016.

## Community Connect Involvement

I am here to support the event and learn from you. Looking forward to meeting you all!
Content Understanding and Contributions: Possibilities for the future

## Overview

Ever wanted your own crystal ball so you can see into the future?

Well, I can't promise you one of those, but I *can* walk you through what Wikia's **Content Awareness, Knowledge, and Experimentation** (aka "**CAKE**") team is enabling for the future. I'll cover some of what we're building and exploring now, and how that work might shape the very foundations of contribution at Wikia in 5 years' time and beyond.

## Presentation Slides

The presentation is available in .pdf format here (can be opened in browser).
Cheesedude (attendee)

## John Klauser

### **Job Title**

Administrator at the *Yu-Gi-Oh!* wiki, Superfan of the *Yu-Gi-Oh!* anime and manga who is near-illiterate when it comes to all other anime and manga.

### **Hobbies**

Nintendo, reading, psychoanalyzing everyone he meets

### **User name**

Cheesedude

Cheesedude is an admin at the *Yu-Gi-Oh!* wiki.

## Bio

Cheesedude first started consistent wiki editing on a non-Wikia wiki, Bulbapedia. This gave him enough confidence to try his hand at editing Wikipedia, where he contributed to professional wrestling articles for several years before completely losing interest in that subject and subsequently dropping off of Wikipedia. He'll occasionally drop by both of those wikis, usually when reading something on them.

He somehow ended up randomly editing the *Yu-Gi-Oh!* wiki to correct a few things around July 2009, several years after having lost interest in *Yu-Gi-Oh!*. This rekindled his interest in the franchise in general and six years later he's still at it, watches new episodes as soon as possible once they air and is a part of another YGO website specializing in news reporting and translation. Apparently, he's very good at stumbling into places and then never leaving.

He loves the YGO franchise for much the same reasons as many people leave it - the fact that it is completely and utterly nonsensical.

He has a degree in Psychology, which he's currently putting to excellent use by washing dishes at a nursing home. He's also never sarcastic.
As Good as Dead (film)

***As Good as Dead*** is a 1995 American television film written, produced and directed by Larry Cohen. The psychological thriller stars Crystal Bernard, Judge Reinhold and Traci Lords. When Susan Warfield (Bernard) moves to Los Angeles, she becomes friends with party girl Nicole (Lords). Nicole suffers from painful stomach ulcers but cannot be treated since she has no medical insurance. Susan decides to temporarily switch identities with Nicole so that her friend can use her insurance to have an operation. However, after Nicole suddenly dies following the procedure, Susan's legal identity also ends. Now Susan has to pose as Nicole and try to gain a life back.

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Traci Lords: Underneath It All

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***Traci Lords: Underneath It All*** is an autobiography by American actress and singer Traci Lords, first published on July 8, 2003 by HarperCollins. It was reissued as a paperback on June 29, 2004, with an additional chapter and photos. The book mostly details Lords' career in the adult film industry, when she appeared underage in dozens of pornographic films and became one of the most notable pornstars of the 1980s. It also chronicles her childhood, transition to mainstream films and musical career.

Traci Lords: Underneath It All received positive response from critics and was a commercial success. It debuted at number thirty-one on the The New York Times Best Seller list.
Traci Lords Wikia

**Tracipedia** is a free, public and collaborative encyclopedia dedicated to the American actress, singer, model, writer, producer and director Traci Lords. Feel free to contribute and help us expand the community. Posting any sort of pornographic content is strictly forbidden!

**Traci Elizabeth Lords** (born May 7, 1968) is an American actress, singer, model, writer, producer and director. Born Nora Louise Kuzma in Steubenville, Ohio, she first gained notoriety for her underage appearances in pornographic films and magazines. At the age of only 15, Lords became one of the most sought-after pornstars. Her case became the biggest scandal to affect the adult film industry.

After her departure from pornography, Lords decided to focus on her career as a mainstream actress and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute where she studied method acting. She made her mainstream film debut in 1988, when she was offered the leading role in the remake of Roger Corman's classic *Not of This Earth*. Lords followed with the role of Wanda Woodward in John Waters' teen comedy, *Cry-Baby* (1990), which established her as a legitimate actress. Her other acting credits include the television series *MacGyver*, *Married... with Children*, *Tales from the Crypt*, *Roseanne*, *Melrose Place*, *Profiler*, *First Wave*, *Gilmore Girls* and *Will & Grace*. She also appeared in films such as *Virtuosity* (1995), *Blade* (1998), *Zack and Miri Make a Porno* (2008) and most recently *Excision* (2012) and *Devil May Call* (2013).

Besides her acting career, Lords is also a recording artist. She released her debut studio album, *1000 Fires*, in 1995. The lead single, "Control", appeared on the soundtrack to the film *Mortal Kombat* (1995) and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Her autobiography, *Traci Lords: Underneath It All*, was released in 2003 and became *The New York Times* best seller.

**Read more...**

**"Little Baby Nothing"** is a song recorded by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers from their album *Generation Terrorists* (1992). It features guest vocals from Traci Lords.**Read more...**
Devilmanozzy

**Devilmanozzy** is a Bureaucrat at Ghostbusters Wiki. Also, has edited at many wikis over the years.

## Bio

Devilmanozzy had joined Ghostbusters Wiki back in September 2008. During the years he has developed or added to many wikis such as Beetlejuice Wiki, Darius Wiki, and ThunderCats Wiki.

## Community Connect 2020

**Devilmanozzy** attended Community Connect 2020 representing older users, new users, and readers of the wikis. Devilmanozzy attended to try influence the Fandom staff, give constructive criticism, and show support to Fandom.
Atvelonis

**Atvelonis** is an administrator and bureaucrat on The Elder Scrolls Wiki, a member of the Community Council, and a former Wiki Representative.

## Bio

I joined Elder Scrolls in 2014 to help add obscure *Skyrim* content and quickly found a deep love of editing, becoming an administrator the following year. I still write some content nowadays, but tend to focus on maintenance (especially with bots), template optimization and simplification, and general wiki structure.

I joined Council in 2016 on account of my endless feedback tickets; I take great pride in my many unimplementable ideas. I was a gaming Wiki Representative (originally Wiki Manager) from 2019 to 2021. I also wrote a Discussions auto-moderation bot and some Discussions API documentation.

Off-wiki, you can find me kilted up at local folk dances, especially Scottish country dance, or on top of a mountain somewhere. Please reach out if you want to do either of those activities together. I love literature (my favorite book is *Moby-Dick*), art, and music. I'm a technical writer by trade and only dabble in software engineering, but I'm always happy to learn about new tools and techniques.
Montblanc Noland

**Brad**, best known on Fandom as **Montblanc Noland**, is a content moderator and chat moderator for One Piece Wiki. He has been an avid editor for nearly a decade, working with fellow OP Wiki users and staff to standardize page formats and fill in the holes in the franchise.

A self-proclaimed "Destub King," Noland has the lofty goal of completing all stub articles on OP Wiki. This interest in fleshing out the niches of the franchise extended to new page creation. Noland's favorite parts of One Piece to write about are video games, live attractions/stage plays, and merchandise.

Outside of One Piece Wiki, Noland reads a ton of manga, takes photographs, and plays video games. He recently picked up improv comedy and rock climbing. Noland works in public relations. He'd like to edit other manga/anime wikis, but one is enough... for now!
Michael Chiang

**Michael Chiang** is Fandom's Chief Business Officer, overseeing functions like the Community and Content teams. His background is in Content, and oversees all the original and video production on Fandom, ScreenJunkies, Fandom Entertainment, and Fandom Games YouTube channels, as well as the occasional big project like our Galaxy Quest documentary, "Never Surrender".

He's also Brandon Rhea's boss. Please be nice to him.

## History

Being born too early to play Ultima games or read fantasy novels professionally, Michael began his career making hairspray (for real) for two long years. After a stint in business school, Michael worked for ten years at Activision on everything from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater to Call of Duty to Guitar Hero, specializing in using insights to develop & market new IP. In one of the gaming industry’s “sequels only” phases, Michael transitioned to digital media where he was a part of creating and building YouTube channels such as ScreenJunkies, Awe Me, Clevver, and Smosh Games. Michael has been a part of Fandom since ScreenJunkies was acquired in 2018.

## Community Connect Involvement

* In 2020, Michael led one of the breakout sessions on video: what we're doing, what our intention is, and what we're exploring for the future.
* In 2023, he will be part of the Fandom Brand Overview session.
Community Connect 2023 Schedule

"Fandom Creators Lab"

**Community Connect 2023** is scheduled to be held in Atlanta, Georgia from Sunday, April 23 - Thursday, April 27. The following is a schedule of events.

*Times and order of presentations/sessions may still change. All times are in Eastern Time.*

## Sunday, April 23

*Sunday's welcome will not be livestreamed.*

Day 1, Sunday
 7:00-7:30pm

## Monday, April 24

*Presentations will be livestreamed. Breakout sessions will not be.*

## Tuesday, April 25

*Presentations will be livestreamed. Breakout sessions will not be. Note: breaks are not listed but there is time between presentations and breakout sessions. All breakout sessions are structured to go for a maximum of 45 minutes, with a break after or the opportunity for ad hoc conversation with the User Research Team.*

## Wednesday, April 26

*Activities will not be livestreamed. NOTE: all activity locations are ADA compliant.*

Day 4, Wednesday
 8:30-9:00am
 9:00am-12:00pm
 12:00-1:00pm
 1:00-5:00pm
 Attendees and staff will participate in whichever of the following activities they choose:
* Stay at the Georgia Aquarium
* World of Coca-Cola *(note: the Scent Discovery exhibit will be closed but the rest is open)*
 5:30-6:00pm
 6:00-9:00pm
 All attendees and staff will have dinner at Ponce City Market, choosing for any restaurant of their choice. Dinners are purchased by attendees using the Visa gift card provided upon check-in on Sunday.
Chris Fife

### **Hobbies**

Watching as many movies as possible, playing Hearthstone until 4am, listening to music at an unhealthy volume, being very tall.

### **User name**

Rupert\_Giles

**Chris** was a Senior Product Manager at Wikia. He managed all areas of the Fandom experience including the home page, articles, videos, and the new Fan Contributor tools. His job was to work closely with various groups inside and outside of Wikia to develop a strategy for new features and improvements to the site.

He has been known to create presentations full of obscure pop culture references. He also talks a lot.

## History

Chris has over 10 years experience working at various technology companies with an emphasis on fan content and pop culture. Before joining Wikia, he was a product manager at IGN.

## Community Connect Involvement

Chris presented at a couple of different panels focusing on Fandom and the Fan Contributor program.
2023 Fandom Overview

The **2023 Fandom Overview** will give attendees the lay of the land for Fandom into 2023 and beyond. A lot has changed since the last Community Connect—we sold Dungeons & Dragons Beyond, continued to grow Fanatical, and acquired a number of new brands like GameSpot, Metacritic, and TV Guide—so we'll talk to you about how it all works together with the wiki platform, the different ways we plan to reach fans, and what the three Community teams have in store for the rest of the year.

## Links

* Click here for the Fandom Overview slides
John Todd

**John Todd** is the Director of Community Experience at Fandom. He joined the company in April 2021 and oversees community management and creator programming for the Fandom Community Platform.

## Background

I have 10+ years experience in community building, partnerships, user experience, user engagement, programming, newsletters, user generated content, and user outreach. Beyond all of that, though, I am a fan. I am a comic nerd. From The New Mutants to Deadly Class, from The Legion Of Super-Heroes to Black Hammer, I love all (well, most... a lot) things comics. While I tend to focus on the capes, I always find time for a BKV character study. That love of comic books led to other comic media (movies & TV). Not all are successful, it's thrilling that they exist at all. In addition to comics, I'm a big fan of The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers and most things silly.

After using Fandom (for years!) as a source of proving my comic book knowledge superiority to my friends, I was so happy to join the team in April of 2021. We have a LOT of fun things in store; I'm excited for you to experience it all.
Ask Me Anything Panel Session (2023)

The **Ask Me Anything** panel session for Community Connect 2023 is the continuation of one of the most popular sessions for Community Connect attendees. Attendees will be able to ask some key Fandom staff members about, well, anything! It can be about the company, their role, their fandoms, or literally anything else (appropriate) that comes to mind. The AMA will be moderated by Tim Quievryn and the panelists are to be announced.

## See also

* Ask Me Anything Panel Session (2015)
* Ask Me Anything Panel Session (2016)
* Ask Me Anything Panel Session (2020—no page for it)
* Ask Me Anything Panel Session (2022)