CrsBenjamin

Hi CJ,

I'm doing well! 

My primary focus will be Community (and within Gaming), but our philosophy for Gamepedia has always been that communities are an important part of the decision making process when it comes to product and marketing, so I'm sure I'll continue to have some part in discussions around those areas as well. Also, much of the "marketing" has been community-driven for sure, so I'd still be handling a lot of that I'm sure. :-)

Hi Benjamin,

Will you be helping tickets with Special:Contact? Also how do you find Fandom so far?

Hey there,

Probably not directly. Over on Gamepedia, our CM MisterWoodhouse handles all the support tickets. I sometimes jump in to provide assistance with particularly thorny issues, but don't really do a lot of front-line support through tickets myself. You'll definitely see me around on wikis and Community Central though!

So far its been good. Its been great to meet all the folks there and learn about their perspectives and approaches. For so long we were competitors, so building a more unified team has been a fun project.

Hey there,

What is gamepedia like? Same as Fandom? What have you enjoyed most about working at Fandom?

Well, its been a gradual transition for sure. I'm still very much involved in most of the things I did at Curse/Gamepedia, and in fact there's still a whole Curse office in Hunstville, AL we all work out of (and will continue to) -- So, it hasn't really been a major change in work environment or anything. Just a lot of planning and learning and meeting people! Its an exciting adventure to be working on.

Hey there,

Does that mean that our staff at Fandom before the join forces happened are staff aswell over at Gamepedia?

Well, its both simple and complicated. Simple in that, we're all working for the same organization now, so we're definitely all colleagues and working together on just about everything. Complicated in that, since we have some different ways of approaching things and systems between the two wiki platforms (and size difference, of course), we haven't had as much need for Always-Fandom folks to jump in on Gamepedia (although Mira Laime definitely has!), and only a couple of us Originally-Gamepedia folks will be immediately jumping in on the Fandom side.