Community Central:Hiring

Wikia is a consumer destination site where you can read, discuss, and share information and opinions on any topic and in any language. Wikia currently has over 800,000 pages of content in more than 70 languages. Wikia's investors include Amazon, Bessemer Venture Partners, Omidyar Network, and a select group of angel investors including Marc Andreessen, Josh Kopelman, Joichi Ito, Mitch Kapor, and Ron Conway.

Chinese or Japanese speaking Intern position - Summer 2008
Wikia, Inc., the leading provider of community resources for building free content, wants you! If you have online community experience and a passion for wikis, we're building a small agile team and looking for a Chinese or Japanese speaking intern to join our team for the summer.

This is an unpaid internship, though a stipend is available for the right candidate. The internship is aimed at the summer, but we will also look at strong candidates who want to apply to start sooner.

Responsibilities

 * Increasing the breadth and depth of Chinese or Japanese Wikia sites and growing a dedicated volunteer base.
 * Help to promote our content seeding drive and to help out by adding content as part of this drive.
 * Statistics gathering and reporting - which of our wikis are doing well? Which ones are stalling?
 * Internal and external promotion of Wikia through the creation of promotional material, press releases, and blog posts.
 * Talking to wiki users to find out what they need.
 * Driving forward volunteer programs.

Ideal Candidate

 * Reads fluent Chinese or Japanese, plus good English.
 * Has a passion for wikis and online communities
 * Keeps abreast of web 2.0 tools including social networking sites, blogs, user-generated content and citizen journalism
 * PR or marketing training is a plus.

Please send a résumé and cover letter in plain text to Angela Beesley at [mailto:%61%6e%67%65%6c%61%40%77%69%6b%69%61%2e%63%6f%6d angela@wikia.com] and include 'Wikia Summer Intern' in the subject line.

Explore our Chinese and Japanese language Wikia sites at ja.wikia.com and zh.wikia.com(人才召募)

Entertainment Community Intern -- Location flexible within US
Wikia's Entertainment team is looking for an intern to work closely with members of Wikia's management team to create fabulous and well-organized Entertainment content. We're looking for people who love working on Entertainment wikis, and want to get more involved. The interns help to choose the Entertainment spotlights, looking ahead to figure out what the next big Entertainment wikis will be. The team rehabs dead wikis, builds up new wikis and educates admins on wiki tricks that help the sites to grow.

Interns get a look behind the scenes at Wikia, helping to determine the direction of our seeding and promotion. They work on lots of different Entertainment wikis, with a variety of topics and projects. Interns have helper access on all wikis, and have a deeper level of involvement than Wikia contributors usually have.

The Entertainment Community Intern is an unpaid position, though a stipend is available for the right candidate, and the position could lead to a more permanent role on the team.

We're looking for 10-25 hours/week from people who love writing and building wikis. Hours are flexible. Work from home -- or, if you're nearby, you can work from our offices in San Francisco.

Responsibilities
The position will involve working with the Community Development Manager to identify target content areas. We'll create new wikis, and help to improve existing ones.

For new wikis :


 * Creating the basic content pages and structure


 * Finding information on the internet, and using that info to write lots of pages

For existing wikis :


 * Identifying what's missing on the wiki, and figuring out how to help


 * Cleaning up content, organizing the main page, making things consistent


 * Restructuring content, making sure that the category structure makes sense


 * Upgrading help pages


 * Establishing a good relationship with the existing admins, and helping them create a thriving community on their wiki

Qualifications
Candidates should have a strong history of contributions on Wikia -- especially creating pages and copy-editing. Admin experience preferred, but not required.

Applying
Please send a resume, introduction letter and your Wikia username to Danny Horn, at [mailto:danny@wikia.com danny@wikia.com].

Community Development Associate (San Francisco, CA)
Wikia, Inc., the leading provider of community resources for building free content, wants you! If you have online community experience and a passion for wikis, we're building a small agile team and looking for a fabulous Community Development Associate to join our team.

Responsibilities

 * Help new and existing communities grow by contributing content, offering advice to the wiki founder and welcoming new contributors.
 * Assisting users and responding to their questions via email, CSR ticketing systems, wiki talk pages and chat programs.
 * Helping users with editing their wikis (i.e. creating templates and tables, and setting up category structures).
 * Responding to requests for new wikis and creating them as needed.
 * Testing new features and creating corresponding help pages and tutorials.
 * Forwarding user comments, requests, and bug reports to the appropriate team.

Ideal Candidate

 * Has excellent writing skills and can communicate proactively with others in friendly and simple terms.
 * Enjoys multitasking and can meet several deadlines at once.
 * Has a passion for wikis and online communities.
 * Has experience with MediaWiki software and syntax.
 * Thrives in a fast paced environment.
 * Self-motivated with a demonstrated ability to work independently with attention to detail.
 * Experience managing online communities or supporting online customers and/or heavy participation in an existing wiki community.

Applying
This is a full time position located in San Francisco, CA. Relocation assistance is possible for the right candidate.

Please send a resume and intro email to hiring@wikia.com and include CDA in the subject line.

Senior PHP/Web Developer (San Francisco, CA)
Wikia, Inc., the leading provider of community resources for building free content, wants you! If you're a great Senior Web Developer then come work on The Next Big Thing for vibrant on-line communities. We're building a small agile team to work on our core platform, user tools, and new customer-facing web applications.

What do we expect from you?

 * Be smart and be passionate.
 * Expert level PHP and Javascript.
 * Familiarity writing code for scale and using memcache.
 * Familiarity with MySQL and a solid understanding of query optimization and performance.
 * Unix/Linux expertise.
 * Development experience with Mediawiki a big plus.
 * Development experience with YUI a big plus.
 * Design / UI expertise a plus.
 * Previous experience with Wikia, Wikipedia, wikis or other user generated content sites is a plus.
 * Operations experience a plus.

You'll be working with other technical leads, a Product Manager, a Community Manager, and an Operations Manager on bringing a variety of projects to life at Wikia. We're working on a lot of exciting things - want to help?

Please send a resume and intro email to [mailto:hiring@wikia.com hiring@wikia.com] and include SWD in the subject line.

Wikia was started by Jimmy Wales (who also founded Wikipedia) and is backed by Amazon, Bessemer Venture Partners, Omidyar Network and a select group of angel investors including Marc Andreessen, Josh Kopelman, Joichi Ito, Mitch Kapor, and Ron Conway.

Product Marketing Manager (San Francisco, CA)
Wikia, Inc., the leading provider of community resources for building free content on every topic, is seeking an outstanding Product Marketing Manager who can engage and foster thriving online communities, promote and drive feature adoption, measure and track user activity, flow existing traffic to target content areas and be an advocate for tools that help users generate a ton of content.

Responsibilities
The Product Marketing Manager will utilize Wikia's home page, learning areas, community portals and onsite promotion to turn readers into contributors and editors into new wiki founders. The PMM will write promotional content and market new products to existing users, actively encouraging feature adoption and owning the sections of the site devoted to the discussion and presentation of product launches. The PMM also owns the new user experience, including user flows, all help areas, online tutorials, outbound emails, and newsletters.

Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a self-starter who is comfortable with the chaos of online communities and the oddities of user-generated content. This person is flexible and able to communicate well using a variety of media with teammates in eight time zones and users around the globe. The candidate is a heavy user of one or more of MySpace, Facebook, Wikipedia, Flickr, etc. and can verbalize what works and doesn't work on each site. Experience with wikis is a nice plus.

Requirements

 * BS or BA
 * Excellent and creative written and oral communication skills.
 * Well-organized self-starter with attention to detail.
 * Proven ability to manage multiple projects in a dynamic environment.
 * Entrepreneurial spirit.
 * 3+ years experience in marketing and/or product management of a web-based product or service.
 * Experience with online communities as a user or product manager.
 * Strong analytical skills and passion for analyzing and benchmarking products, competitors, and market dynamics.
 * Proactive style with discipline and will to set priorities, drive decisions, and get closure on recommendations and issues.
 * Flexible and willing to do what it takes to ensure success.
 * UI design and usability testing experience a plus.
 * Experience editing wikis a huge plus.
 * Multiple written languages a plus.

Please send resume and cover letter in .pdf format explaining how you currently resemble or how you could become the ideal candidate. Send to [mailto:hiring@wikia.com hiring@wikia.com] and include PMM in the subject line.

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