User:Kirkburn/Who

  kirkburn @ wikia central wikia userpage / talkpage &bull; wowwiki userpage &bull; personal website Who on Azeroth am I?

Hello, I'm Kirkburn, aka George, and I'm here to help you with your wiki!

As an Associate Product Manager, I work with Wikia to both help out existing communities and develop new products to make our wikis even more awesome. I am always taking suggestions for new projects!

In another life I admin the WoWWiki, the leading wiki about the Warcraft universe, which moved to join Wikia in May 2007.

As part of the Wikia Staff group, I have the same abilities as an admin, although I normally stay out of most wiki-specific admin issues :)
 * What's my class?

Normally I swoop in to help with one of several things:
 * What abilities do I have?
 * Announce new products and projects
 * Clean up and organise wikis
 * Help guide wikis to greatness
 * Act as the diplomat in disputes
 * Import and design new templates and pages

Feel free to request aid from me, and I'll see what I can do!


 * Okay, that's enough World of Warcraft references for now. &#58;)

Contact me
Please feel free to ask me any questions (or suggest new features) on my Wikia Central User talk:Kirkburn page!

If you're a fan of IRC, you can often catch me or other staff in several channels - but mainly the chat.freenode.net, #wikia channel. If you do not usually use IRC, you can connect on your browser using the Wikia Chat portal.

To email me, visit here - please include "Wikia" in the subject!

Gamers: On the Xbox 360 I'm "Kirkburn".

In real life
I am a resident Brit who, when not editing wikis, spends his time listening to ELO and batting people round the head as a scout. In Team Fortress 2. I also created a popular addon for World of Warcraft called ClearFont.

No particular reason. I've used it since the mid-90s, since throwing two random words together to create a character name. I have no connection to the English town of Kirkburn. They stole my sword though.
 * Why "Kirkburn"?

Guides and projects

 * Two quick guides I helped write:
 * The first few things to do on a new wiki.
 * My personal advice guide for starting up wikis.


 * Projects you may have come across
 * Video Embed Tool and Blog articles, a blog-style extension.
 * Wikia Templates, a collection of templates from across Wikia.
 * I worked on revamping Wikia Help, Wikia's general help wiki, to both make it more useful and get it ready for Shared Help.
 * I helped redesign the starter wiki for new wikis - if you spot problems with it on new wikis, do let me know!
 * At SXSW 2008, I took part in a discussion panel regarding game wikis - report on Massively.com.
 * I pop up at various Blizzard conventions, most recently BlizzCon 2008.


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  last updated 13:35, 31 July 2009 (UTC)