recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
BlueHighwind (attendee)

## Eric Fuchs

### **Job Title**

Dragon Emperor of the Highwind Realm, Lord Protector of the West, Chosen of Bahamut's Heirs, Fan Contributor, FFWiki Admin

### **Hobbies**

Video Games, Movies, Pina Colada, Walks in the Rain, Making Love at Midnight

### **User name**

BlueHighwind

BlueHighwind has edited the Final Fantasy Wiki for what is frighteningly close to a decade now. He has come along on Wikia's various excursions for what frighteningly close to two years now. And he has been a Fan Contributor for what is frighteningly close to six months now. He also twitters @BlueHighwind and has a dusty old blog that he updates sometimes - http://bluehighwind.blogspot.com/.

## Bio

BH was born in 2007 to write a walkthrough on *Final Fantasy VII* on the Final Fantasy Wiki. He is the creation of the 1991 creation, Eric Fuchs, a nerdy and quiet young man who needed an internet handle. Eric currently works a boring office job in the Bronx but dreams of more. He has Metallica's Unforgiven II stuck in his head right now, and a fridge full of smoked herring which turned out to be a lot saltier than I thought and how the heck am I going to eat all that? He sometimes falls into rambling streams of consciousness.

Also Overwatch.
Jessica Clifford

**Jessica "Alianin" Clifford** was the Product Manager for the Creator Admin Tools & Staff (CATS) team. She was formerly the Product Manager for Gamepedia.

## History

Jessica started editing wikis in 2008 on WoWWiki and joined Wowpedia when it was established. She then continued editing wikis on what was now Gamepedia, sticking mostly with MMOs including Star Wars: The Old Republic and WildStar. Due to her contributions, in 2015 she was contracted as a Wiki Manager and a year later joined Curse, the then parent company of Gamepedia, as a Wiki Specialist. Jessica has worn a variety of hats in her time at Curse/Twitch/Fandom, and although she doesn't edit wikis for work anymore, she spends her free time happily editing.

## Community Connect 2020 involvement

Jessica, along with Tots, led the Gamepedia breakout session where concerns and ideas specific to Gamepedia were discussed.

## Community Connect 2021 involvement

Jessica delivered a presentation about the roadmap for creator and admin tools on Saturday. She also led a breakout session on Sunday.
Rappy

**Rappy** was a Senior Editor Experience Specialist (formerly Community Technical Specialist). His focus was running various experiments to help grow communities and the user base by adding quality of life improvements. He was also in charge of the Javascript Review Process and helped out with the Dev Wiki community.

## Trivia

* Rappy's name did *not* come from Phantasy Star Online.
* Rappy's username on Fandom is incorrect, but he's never bothered to correct it.
Jerry Fan

**Jerry Fan** was Senior Director of Product, Engagement and Platform at Fandom in 2022. He leads many of the product teams that oversee the Fandom Community Platform, including the Creator Admin Tools & Staff (CATS) team that focuses on platform improvements for wiki editors. Previously, he was the Head of Product Growth for monetization and emerging business at Crunchyroll, where he worked with Quincy Carroll and Brian Johnson.
Foxxick

**Ada**, more commonly known as **Foxxick**, is an administrator of the Disco Elysium Wiki and Yakuza Wikis.

## History

Ada began editing for the Yakuza Wiki in 2019, after they discovered an alarming amount of misinformation on Goro Majima's page, ranging from entirely false headcanon-adjacent information about his childhood, to incorrect dates. From there, her contributions to the wiki snowballed, eventually applying for adoption. In a move that would eventually begin a pattern in her relationship with Fandom, however, they decided against becoming a bureaucrat and instead gave Cawfein their blessings, upon one condition: to PLEASE change the wiki background ASAP.

Once the wiki had a fresh coat of paint -- no longer displaying "SEX" on a neon sign behind each and every page -- the two got to work with the immense workload inherited from years upon years of neglect and vandalism. Eventually, after witnessing plenty of ~~exhausted complaining~~ updates on the current state of the wiki from Ada, 04tenno and LammyQ signed on as fellow administrators, and kicked things into high-gear. Two years later, in June of 2021, 04tenno succeeded Cawfein as the new bureaucrat of the Yakuza Wiki.

On January 15th, 2022, Ada made her first edit to the Disco Elysium Wiki, followed by many. Many... many, many more. They applied for adoption on February 8th, hoping to take what she had learned from their time with the Yakuza wiki and improve upon the foundation laid out by wiki rep Tagaziel and fellow administrator Nicpiccc, and was given administrator rights by Tagaziel several days later.

Today, Ada carefully moderates both the Disco Elysium and Yakuza Wikis, and works on improving the content on the Disco Elysium Wiki whenever they get the chance.

## Trivia

* Ada is non-binary, and uses she/they pronouns.
* Their other interests include:
	+ *The X-Files*, *Fire Emblem Awakening*, *Lord of the Rings*, *Persona 4*, *X-Men* (specifically the first three cheese-filled movies; yum yum), *Metal Gear Solid*, *Death Stranding*, *The Wolf Among Us*, *Legend of Zelda*, *Ace Attorney* (just the trilogy + Apollo Justice), *Dragon Age 2*, *What We Do in the Shadows*, *Our Flag Means Death*, and various anime.
* She runs a ~~disastrous~~ "variety" channel on YouTube by the name of Literally Satan, and occasionally posts mediocre content to it.
* They have a combined total of about 1,320~ hours across the entire Ryu ga Gotoku (Yakuza + Judgment) series.
Ludwik Kazmierczak

### **Hobbies**

Guitar freak, Witcher fanatic, Video Gaming, Tabletop Gaming, Football and a Juventino

### **User name**

Ludwik.kazmierczak

I'm Ludwik, a Quality Engineering Manager for Fandom. Since 2014 I have an honor ( and hell of a challange) of doing my best to get our users quality products.

## Community Connect Involvement

I'll be at Connect to listen and answer technical questions and I'm happy to gather feedback and just have a talk about our platform, users needs and quality of what we deliver
Infoboxes: Past, Present and Future/English notes

## Why do we use infoboxes?

* What is an infobox?
	+ It’s a collection of fact sheets designed to show a summary of a specific topic
	+ They are very useful; infoboxes present facts that can be read easily
	+ Infoboxes are part of the wiki culture
* What is the problem with the current infoboxes?
	+ Most devices won’t show infoboxes properly
	+ We need tools that help us build, personalize, and use infoboxes in articles
* What can we do to understand content better?
	+ Validate both content and formatting
	+ Explain and leverage the value of infoboxes
	+ Use auto generated galleries and tables based on infobox values
	+ When different devices display infoboxes correctly, it’s easier to show them across channels

## Our goals for the future

* Make sure that infoboxes are easy to create
* Make sure that infoboxes look the same in every page
* New tagging of infoboxes
	+ We want to create something that is easily understood by people and devices
	+ Inspired in galleries, we created a variety of tags to make infoboxes more consistent
	+ Tags with 70% less code
* Infobox migration
	+ A tool for migrating infoboxes
	+ "Infobox Builder" - still in its initial stage; will make infoboxes easier to create in the future
	+ Next step: have several images in an infobox
	+ Different looks for desktop and mobile
5 Essential Techniques to Boost SEO Health/Notes

## What is Search Engine Optimization?

A multi-discipline field that aims to increase traffic and site visibility through placement on search engine results pages, or SERPs. Essentially, tips and tricks that bring more people to your website!

## What are the SEO team’s responsibilities?

* Protection- They want to make sure the users that already find your page continue to find it. They have to keep up with the ever changing rules of search engines.
* Growth- Grow your community base and getting more people to interact

## What are the 5 essential elements of SEO?

* Content- on page elements that have value to users and are understood by search engines
	+ TIPS: Make sure page is built around a single topic, ensure that the page name reflects the topic, clean up redirects and duplicate pages, build out content that competitors are missing, and eliminate red links
* Accessibility- how crawlers and search engines access your site
	+ TIPS: Create unique, canon content instead of repeating a lot of the same content as other websites
* User Experience (Internal Linking)- Users and search engines find pages through links
	+ TIPS: Internal linking (no red links, please!) is really valuable. This includes navigation boxes.
* Links (External Linking)- The more that other websites link to you, the more search engines believe that you are an authority on the subject.
	+ TIPS: The bigger the website that links to you, the better! (Example: Buzzfeed, Wired, etc.)
* Keywords- Page titles, image titles, and relevant wording through the article page are the keywords you need to mind while building an article page.
	+ TIPS: Make sure image file names are properly named and easy for a search engine to read. Write keywords in in a logical way, don’t stuff them into the page.
Goodman Green

**Goodman Green**, also known as **Goodman Park**,is a narrow triangle of land about 450 feet long at the busy intersection of Farmington Avenue and South Main Street in West Hartford Center. South Main Street divides at the southern tip to provide both the east and west boundaries of the green. Goodman Green at the heart of West Hartford remains a symbol of the town's liberty and political freedom.

## History

Goodman Green was given in 1747 by Timothy Goodman to the Congregational Church of West Hartford for use as a "parade ground" or park. Still owned by the West Hartford Parish, the triangular piece was used by Captain Abraham Sedgwick to train troops for the Revolutionary War. By this period, the town green was surrounded by various buildings that sustained the old New England town. These included the meeting house, town hall, parsonage, Academy District School, general store at the corner, and Aaron Goodman's tavern and post office. The park was naturally a great place for Fourth of July celebrations, picnics, and other festive and social purposes. It was even a favorite place for nearby schoolchildren in the summer.

Most importantly, Goodman Green was the spot where the citizens west of Hartford gathered to rejoice in June 1854 at the onset of the separation of West Hartford, the day that the Connecticut General Assembly recognized West Hartford as a separate town. Around 1877, improvements were made to the park, its surrounding buildings, and old cemeteries, such as the installation of a two-rail white fence around the perimeter with four open entrances, curbing along all the sides of the road, and the widening of the road, which reduced the area of the park, though did not diminish its charm.
Michael Grimm

Mike is a Community Development Team Lead at Wikia, working to build and grow our many video game communities.

## History

Mike is a Northern California local who moved to SF for college and never left. His work background is primarily editorial, with a focus on community building. He's worked for 1UP, GamesRadar, and several other outlets. His favorite games include Earthbound, Dark Souls, and most recently, Hearthstone.

## Community Connect Involvement

As a member of the Community Development team, Mike is available for any questions you might have about Wikia, increasing your wiki's viewership, growing your community, or if you just want to chat about games/cars/music.
CEO Keynote (2023)

The **CEO Keynote** is a welcome address given by Perkins Miller, Chief Executive Officer of Fandom, at the Community Connect 2023 welcome dinner. In-person attendees will be able to hear directly from Perkins about what's going on at Fandom in 2023 and his thoughts the continued success of the platform.
Mike Delaney

### **Hobbies**

LEGO building, Transformer collecting, reading, letting Mandy Olson think she is bullying me as I ~~deviously and maliciously give her more and more work to do~~ work very, very hard at my job

### **User name**

Cavalier One

**Mike Delaney**, also known as **Cavalier One**, **Cav**, **Sir Cavalier**, **Oi You!**, and **Please, Sir, Stop Making a Scene**, is a Community Partnership Specialist for the Community Activations team with a focus on Entertainment. What that means in reality is that I know a lot more about entertainment franchises and IPs than *anyone* should ever have to. He was born in the November of 1979, is still alive, and not much has happened to him since that time. Except a few broken bones. And grey hair. He refers to himself in the third person occasionally.

## History

Mike found ~~Fandom~~***Wikia*** in 2007, contributing and administrating across a variety of wikis but mainly focusing on Wookieepedia, aka the "bestest wiki ever". Eventually, probably because he was hanging around and being a general nuisance, Fandom thought he might be good to have on staff and he was hired to the then-Community Development Team in August 2016. Mike maintains a desk in the London office that has been his from the start, and no amount of new hires to the office are going to get him to move because it really is the best desk in the office.

## Trivia

* Knows a lot more about fictional universes than the real one.
* Is exceptionally good at counting in Base 12 but only because that is the number of starfighters in a squadron in the *Star Wars* universe.
* Was the first non-staff article writer on the now-defunct Fan Contributor program.
* Once shook Dave Filoni's hand.
* Despite being a *Star Wars* fan, his favourite film is the 1980 *Flash Gordon* film.
	+ Second favourite is 1986's *The Transformers: The Movie* which is a pinnacle of animation and capitalism that tells a heart-rending story about the need to kill off old characters to sell new toys. Also, Orson Welles plays a planet.
* Does not currently have a pile of LEGO sets to build sitting in two closets and anyone that tells you he does is a filthy liar.
Jenny Uchisawa

**Jenny Uchisawa** is a small, anxious sugarplum baby and is a Leo. She is also the Senior Community Manager on the Community Safety team, and her goal is to help wikis be proactive in creating healthy and safe communities for all fans through education and best practices. She lives in the Midwest with her spouse, infant son, and doggo.

## History

Jenny was born on a small farm in a small town in a big state. She left immediately.

She graduated college during an economic recession, which she now understands was a silly decision, so she moved to Japan. Before moving back to the US, she passed the JLPT N1 and KanKen Level 5 which helped her become a professional translator and interpreter once she moved back to the US. She has a lot of big feelings on language learning and probably needs to learn to chill a little.

She met her spouse in Japan and somehow convinced him to move the US with her. This was another silly decision because all she thinks about now is moving back to Japan.

## Fandom

Jenny joined Fandom in 2019 as a Wiki Team Lead in the Anime vertical. In 2021, she moved to the Community Development team then to Community Safety where she currently coordinates and manages programs that aim to help communities be even more amazing than they already are (hopefully?) One of her favorite parts about working at Fandom is being able to receive live feedback from users, good or bad, and use that to make future goals.

## Trivia

* She was too pregnant to attend Connect 2022, so she asked Tim Quievryn to present the Admin+ panel in her voice. He did not.
* The best beverage is unsweetened black iced tea, and the worst beverage is sweetened black iced tea.
* She hopes to become a member of ORANGE RANGE one day.
* If there is an opportunity for a typo, she will make a typo.
Becky Westmoreland

Becky Westmoreland is the Director of SEO at Fandom. She may or may not be half elven, but like other employees, does not like writing about herself in the third person. She also did have an Assassin's Creed themed wedding.

**PEAK FAN NERD ALERT** E3 2012 on the X-Play Soundstage wearing a Google shirt

## ​​History

Sites I've worked on SEO for have ranged from startups to large corporations (including SodaHead, G4TV, E! Online, Dictionary.com, Vagaro, and now Fandom). I've also held the title Marketing Maven because sustainable SEO practitioners must understand how the entire site works in order to maximize the potential visibility and happiness of people who use search engines to find us. I've done community management as a cat (Assassin Felinious).

I've also become a huge D&D fan and play in 2 ongoing games and DM one-shots for different folks. I'm also a part of the new tabletop game Tales of Xadia. I'm honored to be IN a FREAKIN' Tabletop game. Buy your copy please because The Dragon Prince is an epic fandom to be a part of!

## SEO Team

The SEO Team includes Joshua Titsworth and every single staff and community member at Fandom. We appreciate each and every one of you.

## Fandoms

Currently addicted to Jane the Virgin because Rafael Solano (aka Justin Baldoni is indeed a sexy mf - the wiki says so!)

* PokemonGo
* Triangle Strategy
* The Last Campfire
* D&D

Also a Search Nerd, this is how my partner and I announced our engagement to parents who were waiting 14 years.

## Community Connect Involvement

I am someone who loves search and language. I have used all of our sites for years as an RPG gamer and someone who loves to know lore as well as gameplay. My personal goal is to help everyone understand what SEO is and why it's important because I care about your craft as much as you do!

OK, the above was pretty cheesy, but I'm going to have to say still true. I had a blast in 2020 and am excited to reconnect!

Becky presented "AMA about SEO" at Community Connect 2020 and will be presenting "Something" at Community Connect 2022.
BritishCynic

BritishCynic was the founder of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikia prior to that wiki's forking away from Fandom,;he currently primarily edits Codex Gamicus.

## Bio

Stuart grew up in Southend-on-Sea, moving to Milton Keynes several years ago, now residing in Salford. He currently works in financial services, but his career includes experience in technical support, customer service, restaurant service, and staff training.

Stuart is an avid player of various video games, and pays particular attention to video games from the *Star Trek*, *Mass Effect*, *Final Fantasy* and *Sid Meier's Civilization* franchises. He is also a fan of MMOs, and can often be found playing *World of Warcraft* or *Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn*. TV-wise, he considers himself a fan of *Star Trek*, *Stargate SG-1*, and various cartoons from the 1990s.
Paintgoddess (attendee)

Andrea Rothe is the Fan Contributor Coordinator.

## Bio

If you've joined our Fan Contributor editorial writing program, chances are you've corresponded with me! I'm kind of like the gate keeper, butler, and welcome staff. Nothing pleases me more than guiding a writer who is new to Fandom.com through the process from his or her unique pop culture perspective, to an outline, to a published piece on the front page! I come to Fandom and Wikia by way of CHUD.com, Company.com, and Guy.com.
Community Central

### **Presenters**

Vladimir Lazovskiy (RU), Chen Shen (ZH), Bert Hall (EN), Andrea Voirin (DE), Elsa Malbrun (FR) in **Europe**

 Andrew Naslund, Sannse (EN), Lucho Valenzuela (ES), Ana Fleischmann (PT), Keiko Lai-Tong (JA) in **U.S.A.**

### **Location**

Battle School (Portuguese)
Holodeck (Spanish)
 Ministry of Magic (English)
 Narnia (Japanese)
in **U.S.A.**

### **Time**

2:00pm in **Europe**
 2:05pm in **U.S.A.**

### **Date**

July 12 in **Europe**
 August 9 in **U.S.A.**

## Overview

Attendees are grouped with staff members according to language, to discuss Community Central and other subjects related to communities in that language.

## Presenters

* **Europe**:
	+ Vladimir Lazovskiy (RU)
	+ Chen Shen (ZH)
	+ Bert Hall (EN)
	+ Andrea Voirin (DE)
	+ Elsa Malbrun (FR)
* **U.S.A.**:
	+ Andrew Naslund, Sannse (EN)
	+ Lucho Valenzuela (ES)
	+ Ana Fleischmann (PT)
	+ Keiko Lai-Tong (JA)

## Presentation Slides

The presentation is available in .pdf format:

* here for English
* here for German
* here for Russian

(can be opened in browser).
ProfessorTofty

**ProfessorTofty** is a member of Fandom's content team.

## Bio

I joined Fandom's content team in 2019. Since then, my projects have included *The Terror* (AMC), *GLOW* (Netflix), *Frozen II*, *Lost in Space* (Netflix) and *The Dragon Prince* (Netflix). When not at work on Fandom, you can find me active a number of wikis, including the ones for *Final Fantasy*, *Star Wars* (Wookieepedia), and *Star Trek* (Memory Alpha). I also dabble in a number of other wikis from time to time. Although I don't generally do much work wiki-wise regarding them, I am a fairly major player of Japanese RPGS, including besides the *Final Fantasy* series, *The Legend of Heroes* franchise, the *Atelier* franchise, the *Tales* franchise and recently *Persona 5*.

In the past, I have also been an admin for a few wikis and still maintain that status on at least a couple, though I am mostly not active on those at the moment. I built the wiki for *Eternal Sonata* pretty much from the ground-up and am happy with the work I did there, even if the game is no longer very well known.
Jakub Kurcek

### **Hobbies**

Editing wikis, Distance Running, History, Comic Books, Tabletop Gaming, Reading/watching sci-fi & horror

### **Favorite Community**

Poznań Wikia
Thogal Wikia
Memory Alpha
The Wire

### **User name**

Shareif

Howdy! I'm Jakub but you can call me Sheriff ;) I'm a Product Manager at Wikia and together with my amazing team we are working on making creation of content easier.

## History

I've learned about Wikia while marathoning through Star Trek TOS and TNG episodes. Memory Alpha was my main reference of choice and first contact (pun intended) with Wikia Fan Universe. After finishing all Trek episodes I've joined Wikia family.

After joining I've coughed an wiki-editing bug and started two projects: Poznańska Wiki and Thorgal Wiki.

## Community Connect Involvement

I'll be hosting the Infoboxes: Past, Present and Future session about our new Portable Infoboxes shedding some light on where we are and were are we going with infobox features.
Carrie Parameswaran

**Carrie "Parmesean" Parameswaran** was SVP, Research & Insights at Fandom. She combined her passion for entertainment, her love of storytelling and her need to find out what makes people do what they do to research in understanding fans and the Fandom audience.

## History

Carrie's destiny as a media researcher can be traced to back to her childhood when she signed-up her family to be a Nielsen household meticulously transcribing the quarter-hour viewing habits of her parents and siblings. While TV has always been her first love, it hasn’t always loved her back as her team had the shortest appearance in the of the short-lived prime-time game show Greed: TV Guide Edition hosted by Chuck Woolery. (Tip: Ask Carrie what question her team lost on.) Luckily, her career has lasted much longer starting out at CourtTV (back when that was a thing), then on to big drama and comedies at TBS and TNT to covering Kids and Young Adults for Cartoon Network, AdultSwim and Funny or Die. Finally bringing all it all together at Fandom.

## Community Connect Involvement

Carrie presented the hot new research that all the kids are talking about "The State of Fandom" to deep dive into fan habits, preferences and motivators across TV, Movies and Gaming. She will also tell you how really, really good Fleabag is and if you haven’t watched it already you should. No, seriously.
ReverieCode

**Lucas Melo**, also known as **ReverieCode**, is a Wiki Representative at Fandom.

## History

Lucas began editing in August 2007, after finding a link to the Grand Theft Encyclopedia on a Spanish *GTA* web-forum. He quickly fell in love with the idea of writing while collaborating with others and later joined other communities, becoming an admin on wikis such as the Person of Interest Wiki and creating the Spanish version of the Breaking Bad Wiki.

Aside from wiki editing, Lucas assisted with some of the early setting up of the Spanish Community Central, was a Helper for Spanish communities for a few months in 2010, and joined the former "Wikia Stars" program some years after. He became a Wiki Representative in 2019, and has been on various Wiki Rep teams since then; currently, he is a member of the Gaming team. He is grateful to have met some wonderful people in the platform, some of whom have become close friends.

Lucas attended Community Connect 2022 in Los Angeles and Community Connect 2023 in Atlanta.

## Gallery

### Community Connect 2022

ComEx + Wiki RepresentativesWith Spongebob456 and TimeShade, original TV/Movies Wiki ManagersTier 2 Wiki RepsThrowback to some of the TV/Movies TeamWith a group at Universal CityWalkWith Héctor Donís and TimeShadeWith everyone!
### Community Connect 2023

With Héctor DonísWith Héctor, Antonio and JieyangWith a big fishWith Toa Kopaka Nuva and Spongebob456With LynnE216 and HéctorWith HéctorWith HéctorWith TimeShade and HéctorWith Saunt3DWith a small fishWith TimeShade at the CNN CenterWith TimeShade in the SkyView AtlantaWith a groupWith another group (and Jimmy Carter!)With yet another group
## Trivia

* He registered on Fandom as "Playsonic2" and used that name for 13 whole years until deciding he no longer liked it. He requested a rename to "ReverieCode", which is inspired by *Westworld*.
	+ He also likes to be called "Reverie" or "Rev".
* Passionate about writing fiction, he aims to create some cool stuff to share with people.
* He loves TV series. According to his Trakt account, he watched more than 7500 episodes of over 200 different series. Some of his all-time favorites are *Breaking Bad*, *Better Call Saul*, *Person of Interest*, *The Expanse*, and *Lost*.
* He absolutely loves Critical Role and worships the Mighty Nein.
* One of his favorite activities around wikis is designing things like main pages, backgrounds, templates, etc. He likes to work with graphic design and CSS, experimenting with different visual approaches when possible.
* Some of his proudest Fandom moments include getting to ask one of his favorite TV writers a question, and also participating in the Hispanic Homage panel.
ChickenBar (attendee)

ChickenBar is an admin at Warframe Wiki. He likes fried chicken.

## Bio

ChickenBar first joined Wikia in April 2013 solely for Warframe, since then he has been a dedicated editor of Warframe Wiki, though occasionally he lurks around other anime wikis. Currently he is the lead admin of Warframe Wiki and the main point of contact for the Warframe developers. He spends most of his time maintaining templates, playing around .css and lua modules.

Earlier this year he was in PAX East and appeared on Twitch as part of the Wikia-Warframe livestream.

Food for thought for CommConnect:

* Windows Phone app
* Portable infobox and wikitext
* parse external json
* database
* namespace
* WAM mechanics
* code review
* report function/ticket
* .js talk page locked
* edit button placement
Azgoodaz

**Azgoodaz** (or Rel), I'm apart of the Gaming CTM squad but during off-hours I manage the PUBG Gamepedia Wiki.

## Bio

I've been editing Wiki's for who knows how many years, I love it. I mostly live on the other side, PUBG Gamepedia Wiki as the Admin, it's my project of mine since 2016 back when it was in Pre-Alpha. Besides that, I entered video games at a young age with a Windows 95 desktop with no Internet. Just me, my Tonka series CD's, LEGO Island and the desktop. My cousin introduced me to the Xbox 360 when it was released and played Call of Duty 4 everyday, you can say I'm a Xbox fanboy but I did move back to the PC side years later with me building my own PC from scratch.

## Interests

* Watching Esports
* Kayaking
* Paintball/Airsoft
* Theme Parks
Creating Content in a Multidevice World/Notes

## What does Wikia Look Like today?

* A Desktop layout is based around a large monitor, precision control with a mouse
* Compare with a Phone/Tablet, less precise touch navigation for users, even tinier keyboard, smaller viewing space
* If you make something specifically for the desktop there’s a good chance it will display incorrectly/sub-optimally
* But as things get more heavily customized with templates infoboxes etc, they become more difficult to display on mobile

## Why?

* Wikia was founded in 2004 When the MediaWiki was created it was before the rise of mobile devices
* Over 50% of all users on Wikia access contest via non-desktop options, tablets phones etc
* Desktop traffic has flatlined and is falling
* Non-desktop devices will make up the majority of Wikia traffic by the end of next year
* Before the end of the year, mobile devices will account for the majority of traffic on Wikia
* This trend shows absolutely no signs of slowing
* If we’re struggling today to get content on a mobile phone and in 5 years everyone is on glasses, headsets etc, what will that look like?

## How do we Fix this?

* We change the way we contextualize the data. The content remains the same, Wikis remain the same.
* Using metadata and semantics to make the hard info in a Wikia accessible by devices regardless of their display format.
* Styling options in templates are generally the issue that leads to poor mobile display
* We don’t want a homogenous experience of just text and images that makes all of Wikia look the same
* Wikia is working on separate modules for displaying content
* Default Component widgets versus Custom Components vs. straight text/data delivery
	+ Default Component: Basic tool guaranteed to display appropriately, great for newer users, people just looking to get content up
	+ Custom Component: Designed for specific communities, can be shared among other Wikias
	+ Straight Delivery: Direct data delivery designed to display on 3rd party devices and things that are looking to simply gather Wikia content
Life cycle of a feature at Wikia/Portuguese notes

## Como idéias se tornam produtos?

* Método científico para determinar se uma função é viável
	+ Construir uma hipótese
	+ Recolher informações
	+ Analisar resultados
	+ Conclusão
* Desenvolvimento do produto
	+ Idéias
	+ Priorização
	+ Pesquisa; Design e Definição
	+ Desenvolvimento e Lançamento
	+ Sequência

## De onde vêm as nossas idéias?

* Problemas ou deficiência do produto atual
* Novas tecnologias que necessitam novas soluções (ex: Apple Watch)
* Usuários e empregados
* Idéias inspiradoras
* Tendências do mercado

## O que inspirou a idéia para Especial:Insights

* Usuários queriam mais informações
* Especial:WikiStats não funciona muito bem
* Outros sites (ex: wordpress) oferecem mais estatísticas

## Priorização

* Quanto tempo um funcionário terá que gastar em um novo produto
* Custo x benefício: dedicar tempo nessa função irá nos ajudar a atingir os nossos objetivos
* Exemplo Insights: Dedicar tempo nessa função irá ajudar os usuários a completar mais artigos

## Pesquisas

* Tipos de pesquisas
* Testes A/B
	+ Usuários são divididos em dois grupos para ver qual grupo gerá melhor resultados
* Protótipos
* Conversas com outros usuários
* Testes por usuários (em pessoa ou via vídeo)
* Análise da competição (análise do que os outros websites fazem)
* Insights - exemplo
	+ Tendências de uso dos powerusers no site
	+ Quais informações os powerusers estavam procurando?
	+ O que os outros website fazem?

## Design e definição

* Muitas versões são feitas antes que o produto seja lançado
* Para considerar: Alvo, Audiência, Viabilidade, Tradução, suporte em vários aparelhos, consistência com o resto do produto
* Minimum Viable Product - uma função funcional que nós vamos continuar a melhorar

## Desenvolvimento e Lançamento

* Fail Fast - Lançar produtos rapidamente para verificar a hipótese com os usuários
* Lançar um produto mais cedo é muito mais eficiente do que esperar muito tempo para aperfeiçoar
* Construção e teste levou 3 semanas
* O produto foi lançado em algumas comunidades para teste
* Para Insights, nós escolhemos quatro listas para começar

## “Follow-up”

* Coletar e usar comentários
* Consertar bugs
* Avaliação: Nós atingimos o nosso objetivo?
* Exemplo: Insights
	+ Comentários em sua maioria são positivos
	+ Informações não são as pedidas pelos usuários
	+ Alguns usuários preferem as páginas especiais (Special Pages)
	+ Problemas: As listas são finitas

## Conclusão

* A Wikia está sempre evoluindo
* Assim como você sempre está tentando melhorar o seu conteúdo e nós sempre estamos tentando melhorar o site
Building and Strengthening Communities: Communication Strategies

## Overview

This fun presentation is all about communication online and how to make it more effective. We will discuss different styles of communication, how to work with them and teach you some tools that are easy to learn. Everything we talk about in this session will also help you in other situations of life.

## Who should attend?

All Admins that want to become better communicators and want to learn different strategies that work.
Creator Tools in 2022

**Creator Tools in 2022** is all about the new creator-focused features that we're building for wiki editors like you! You'll hear about our bug fixing process and how we've elevated it in the last year, how we built and launched Interactive Maps, and the new improvements we're going to be making to our mobile experience and to Discussions moderation this year.

## Presenters

* Brandon Rhea, VP of Community
* Tim Quievryn, Director of Community Safety
* Jerry Fan, Sr. Director of Product, Engagement and Platform
* Ludwik Kazmierczak, Manager of Quality Engineering
* Tomasz Kasperek, Staff Software Engineer
Moviesign

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**Moviesign** aka Dave, is a bureaucrat on the Forgotten Realms Wiki and a Wiki Manager for the Games vertical. He was the first Wiki Manager to be hired by Fandom and began work on May 1st, 2019.

His second edit on a wiki ever was to create a citation template (for the first edit) and he was hooked on wiki work. He loves templates, even with the arcane syntax. He has dabbled in Lua and has learned quite a bit about CSS over the years.

His many fandoms over the years have included (in no particular order after the first two):

* Mystery Science Theater 3000 (thus, his avatar)
* The Forgotten Realms campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
* Babylon 5
* Lord of the Rings
* Star Wars
* Star Trek
* James Bond
* Monty Python
* Model rockets
* Homebrew electronics
* Sherlock Holmes
* Magic: The Gathering
* Pentatonix
* Grace Vanderwaal
* Sci Fi/Fantasy novels
* Firefly
* Ragtime piano (need to practice)
* Viola da gamba
* Cello

And the list goes on.
FishTank (attendee)

FishTank (who may be addressed as Isaac, in most cases) is an admin at American Horror Story Wiki. He is occasionally mistaken for a piscine cistern.

Funny story: his first dance with any wikia was editing AHSW, which the founder made a single edit on and abandoned. After a couple edits, a little popup asked if he wanted to be promoted. He had no idea what he was getting into. A few hundred articles later, AHSW is consistently one of the top-WAM'd Television wikias during its broadcast season. In short, it adopted him (not the other way around). This has always puzzled and amazed him, and he is in a constant state of incredulity that it has lasted this long. He's even more amazed that his recaps (done live during the initial broadcast of an episode) get seen by millions of people by the next day and translated on the sister interwikis (and inevitably ripped to Wikipedia).

See also: Isaac Fischer
## Bio

Isaac is the culmination of millennia of evolution on his home planet, and as a result barely escaped ritual sacrifice by his people (who tend to immolate and consume their monarchs and heroes). While taking refuge on Earth, he makes intensive study of languages (both machine and sentient), computers, and psychology in hopes of developing SkyNet (which he intends to deploy on his homeworld, to avoid this whole eating business in the future) and creating as many international incidents as possible. He considers himself a Gentleman Texan.

He considers himself an early adopter of technology, a staunch advocate of rational discourse, and self-effacing madman.
Catch Me In the Pose (song)

**Writer(s)** |  | Traci Lords & Steve Hopkins

**"Catch Me In the Pose"** is a song recorded by Traci Lords. It was featured in the episode "Call of Duty" of the American television series *Sons of Anarchy*. On November 7, 2015, the E39 Paparazzi Mix of the song surfaced online.

## Lyrics

Fashion divas make the scene
Fashion divas
Cameras in my face
Paparazzi on the chase

Catch me in the pose

Fashion divas on the scene
In the club, in limousines
Checking out you and me
Noticed, seen
Red carpet to the backstage
Photo to the front page
Cameras in my face
Paparazzi on the scene

Catch me in the pose
Totally exposed
In the night
Catch me

Soaking in the glare
A million hungry stares
Dripping in couture
Leave them wanting more
Skin exposed
Slide on my stilettos
Paint on my liner
Slip into my designer

I'm living a life in the spotlight
On the catwalk, girls talk
Every night on the screen in 3D
What you want is what you see
Yeah, that's me
Amber Morey-Wu

Amber is the Director of Product Operations, which is a fancy way of saying that she facilitates the product planning cycle, and oversees project management and strengthening processes for the Product and Engineering teams who create the Wikia platform.

## History

Before joining Wikia, Amber created and lead the Mobage West Developer Services department from ground up at the Japanese mobile gaming company, DeNA. Her team published over 100 apps to both Apple and Google stores. She previously worked in leadership and project management roles at LucasArts (new IP), Electronic Arts (FIFA), and Switch Interactive.

## Community Connect Involvement

Amber is leading the logistics of the event, and will be facilitating some of the panel and activity sessions.
Getting Around in San Francisco

San Francisco is a very walkable city. You will be staying within about 10 minutes walking distance of the Wikia offices, see the map below for directions.

What if you want to go somewhere other than Wikia? Here are your options.

## Cable Cars

This is what San Francisco is know for, the cable cars that pull you up and down the famous hills!

Here's some more information about how to ride the cable cars. The fare one way is $7, and you must have exact change.

## Muni

Buses cost $2.25 a ride, you must have exact change. The bus driver will give you a transfer ticket - keep this as it is your proof of payment. Be aware on buses if you have your mobile phone with you as there is occasional theft of phones on buses. Muni link.
GS877

I'm sure you've heard of me. If you haven't, you will. You've either seen it for yourself or someone somewhere has told you about things I've said or done.

I'm a longstanding proponent of helping users and getting them the help they need. I'm self-taught on wikiwork, as there was no help for me when I started, and I never want others to have to feel like they are going it alone.

Despite what I may share on the Discord, I'm a fairly private and guarded person and don't particularly like sharing personal information about myself.
AML Tony (attendee)

AML Tony is an admin in the Villagers and Heroes Wiki and is part of the Admin-Mentor-Program.

## Bio

Hey everyone!

My name is Tony and I was born in 1985 and grew up with the Power Rangers, Buffy and Walkmans.
I´m a German Navy Officer and currently work as an Eventmanager at Navy HQ.
My career has enabled me to see the world from a different perspective, which fascinates me.

Unlike many others, I'm a late bloomer in regards to computer games (2011). I always ridiculed the people who spent all day in front of the computer. Meanwhile, I´m a part of that group xD
I like to take a time-out from real life by diving into fantasy worlds.
Due to my passion for writing I became aware of Wikia through the German wiki of my MMO.
When I started to edit articles in July of 2015, I never would have thought that I could ever get a clear grasp on Wikia – but it worked.
Meanwhile I am a part of the German Admin-Mentor Program and it's great to help new users lose the fear of the unknown – after all, I know how they feel.

One thing that has astonished me, are the many young people on Wikia who are really kick-ass with their vast knowledge. It´s fascinating, how everyone helps and supports each other, no matter their age. Wikia is a big family and I am proud to be part of it.

When I´m not playing my MMO or spending time on Wikia, I like to exercise. Among other things kite surfing, climbing or bouncing (for those who do not know what bouncing is, have a look at the picture with the kangaroo-boots).
Nevertheless, I spend much time on my couch to watch good shows (Arrow, Dexter, Defiance, Stargate) and movies (Marvel, Avatar, Resident Evil, Divergent, The Hunger Games, Le tout nouveau Testament).
Michael Morgan

**Michael** is an accomplished and passionate user experience professional who loves to deliver customer insights and thought leadership to inform product strategy. He supported the development of customer centric products for Fandom Admins/Editors/Consumers. He also helped cross functional teams and Executives understand unmet user needs within organizations by giving visibility to customer insights across all phases of the product development life cycle.

## History

Before joining Fandom, Michael has worked 20+ years as a User Experience Researcher and has led teams for companies such as Microsoft, eBay, PayPal, Walmart.com, and Twitter.

I've been collecting toys from my childhood for the last 20 years, which include GI Joe's, Masters of the Universe, Transformers, and M.A.S.K. toys. I also started a website back in 2007 called http://www.actionfigurecustoms.com/ that is dedicated to showcasing customized toys from the talented community of customizers.

## Community Connect involvement

Michael co-led two breakout sessions with Derek Hart for Community Connect that focused on Editor Tools and the Wiki Experience and hoped to learn all he could from our amazing Admins and Editors.
Aki-chan (attendee)

Aki-chan is a German admin at the Warrior Cats Wiki, Game of Thrones Wiki and Die Legende der Wächter Wiki.

## Bio

Hi, I'm 30 years old, a student and a nerd - I like Science Fiction, especially Star Trek, and Fantasynovels like A Song of Ice and Fire . In July 2008 I did my first edit in Wikia. Therefore I contributed in a lot Wikias - as my interests changed. My first Wikia as an admin was the Captain Tsubasa Wiki. The wiki in which I worked the most were the Warrior Cats Wiki since January 2011. Later I helped and worked as the founder and admin of the Die Legende der Wächter Wiki. It has now 500 articles. Now I work and help primarily in the Game of Thrones Wiki as an active user.
AJHalliwell

**AJ Halliwell** has been an administrator on Memory Alpha The *Star Trek* Wiki since 2005, and Memory Beta the *Star Trek* wiki that incorporates licensed non-canon works since somewhere in there as well.

I love the minor details of *Star Trek* that make the universe complete, recurring references or designs that sometimes go unnoticed (except of course on the internet.) I love that I got to play some small part in helping make MA an intensely detailed, researched, structured resource for new fans, long-time fans, and even members of production and novel writers!

By day, I work for a nonprofit.

Other fandoms I love, but don't get to contribute to *nearly* as much/intensely as *Star Trek* include the OG Charmed, Magic School Bus, The West Wing, Murder, She Wrote, Uncharted, and FarCry.
Paul.rea (attendee)

Paul V. Rea is admin at Teen Wolf Wiki, and is a contributor at Fandom.

## Bio

Born in the hills of Habersham County Georgia, Paul V. Rea began working as a radio host at a tiny AM station at the age of 14. He moved into television news after college which led to web journalism which, through pure happenstance and good luck, led him to Wikia in 2011. He became the administrator at Teen Wolf Wikia shortly after the show's debut five years ago.

## Teen Wolf Wikia

Paul was looking up a friend who was on the show *Teen Wolf* and landed at Teen Wolf Wikia. He started editing just to correct a few misspellings and a few canonical errors on a single page and, when he next looked at the clock, it was a month later and he was up to several hundred edits.

### Teen Wolf News

Once the first season of Teen Wolf ended, looking for something to keep interest in the Wikia alive during the off season, Paul started writing articles about the show's production. That morphed quickly into Teen Wolf News and then, years later, into teenwolfnews.com.

He also launched and manages social media accounts to further promote Wikia and Teen Wolf.

While he's learned a little about coding, template creation and development, Paul's main focus within Wikia continues to be content creation and presentation.

## Fandom.com

Paul's journalism background was put to good use by Wikia during San Diego Comic Con 2015. Paul produced stories, social media posts and videos from panels and press rooms throughout the event.

As a contributor to Wikia's new Fandom.com site, his focus remains on promoting Teen Wolf Wikia but he also covers other aspects of television and movies for Fandom.com.
Ant Pegg

**Ant Pegg** is VP of Product Management at Fandom. He's actually worked here twice! Ant was previously VP of Product Management for Fandom Tabletop, joining the company in June 2020. Ant went over to Wizards of the Coast in May 2022 when we sold Dungeons & Dragons Beyond to Hasbro, but returned as VP of Product Management for the *full* suite of Fandom brands in November 2022.
2023 Attendees

These are the users who will attend Community Connect 2023.

## In-Person Attendees

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