Wikia International
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Wikia is a multi-lingual company and we're hosting wikis in more than 100 languages. Besides our many visitors from the US or other English speaking countries, there is a huge amount of people who love to experience wikis in their mother tongue. To help and support them, we have an international team from all over the world.
| Tim Bartel User:Avatar
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Tim Bartel (Avatar) is responsible for Wikia International, with a focus on Wikia Germany. In the online world, people usually know him as Avatar, a nickname chosen from the famous Ultima roleplay game series which he first played on his Commodore 64. He considers himself to be an early adopter, especially since he entered the realm of cyberspace back in the late '80s with an acoustic coupler. He's been interested in wikis for more than 10 years. In his free time, he enjoys eating very spicy Thai food and he loves his two cats.
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| Marc-Philipp User:MtaÄ
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Marc-Philipp (aka MtaÄ) is working for Wikia International. At Wikia, he coordinates the IVT and the German marketing team, handles the i18n spotlights and works on other international matters. In his free time, he enjoys writing fanfiction (mostly in German) and listening to music all day. He's actively listening to many variations of metal music, whereas his favorite metal genre is symphonic power metal. One of his favorite game with sprite graphics is Yoshi's Island and its successor YIDS, from which his avatar is taken.
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| Antonio User:Bola
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Antonio R. (Bola) is working for Wikia International with a focus on Spanish Wikis. He started editing wikis in Wikipedia and then started working on the Spanish Grand Theft Encyclopedia as bureaucrat. He has already been working for Wikia 3 years long as Spanish community helper and until he became a Wikia contractor in 2011. He loves push wikis about videogames and entertainment, and he's passionately in love with managing communities - including wiki-dramas!
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The IVT (International Volunteering Team)
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The International Volunteering Team is a group of super passionate users from all over the globe who love Wikia and like to help and support our communities in their local language. They are in close connection to users, inform about upcoming products, help in identifying new topics which aren't covered yet, and surface wikis by creating spotlights, sliders and more.
Members of the IVT usually have global powers similar to staff members to help out communities in ways similar to staff.
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| Weas-El User:Weas-El
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Weas-El is a German helper. He started editing and administrating wikis in January 2007 and made his first steps at Wikia in the Smallville Wiki in November 2009. He joined the international team in February 2012. On wikis, he concentrates on administrative tasks, maintenance jobs, cleaning out, and creating templates for infoboxes and other purposes. In real life, he is working as an electrical engineer. He loves reading and adores J. R. R. Tolkien. Weas-El is an admin on Inheriwiki amongst others.
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| Cizagna User:Cizagna
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Cizagna is a Spanish helper. He started editing at Dofus Wiki in fall 2005 as IP and signed up in 2006. At mid 2009 he joined the international team as a Wikia Helper for Spanish communities. He loves to analyze esoteric templates and he's happy to help you out. But you have to be clear and specific on what you want. If you have any question don't hesitate to ask him... but if you are looking for the meaning of life you have to go look somewhere else as his speciality is wiki-mechanics =P
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| Zeist Antilles User:Zeist Antilles
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Zeist Antilles is a Spanish helper. He's active in Wikia since 2006 and while most of his activity goes towards the Spanish Star Wars Wiki he's also interested in a lot of other topics.
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| Wyz User:Wyz
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Wyz is a French helper. He wanted to be a computer scientifist since he was a kid and now he is one of them. He watches a lot of TV series and plays a lot of PS3 games (too much to tell here) but he still has time to help and inform French communities and improve French translations on Wikia. As a big fan of LOST, he joined the French Lostpedia wiki on September 2007 and became an admin there on February 2008. When LOST has came to an end in June 2010, he naturally turned to Wikia to share his knowledge and experience on all French wikis.
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| Lex User:Lexaeus 94
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Lexaeus 94 is an Italian helper. He is admin of many sites, but he is mainly active in the Ratchet & Clank wiki. He is always trying to keep up with what's happening, both in Wikia and the real world. Lex lives after an old Latin quote - Mens sana in corpore sano - which means that a healthy mind can only be in a healthy body. Therefore, he is an ambitioned sportsman, former basketball player and currently doing Karate and swimming. In Wikia he mainly translates the interface into Italian and helps with the translation of help pages and blog posts into Italian.
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| Minerva User:Minerva Titani
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Minerva Titani is an Italian helper who helps managing Public Relations with the Italian community. She's also admin of Ikariam Wiki and Europe1400 Wiki. She doesn't get on with programming languages, codes and other nerd stuff, but she does like writing and editing! At the moment, she is working part time and taking her second degree. She loves travelling, food (especially pasta, pizza, fish and molluscs: just in case anyone wants to take me out for dinner, hehehe!), novels, Canada, videogames (not the violent ones!) and music (rock, pop, folk, swing).
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| Sovq User:Sovq
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Sovq is a Polish Helper. On wikis, he likes to do everything that is not writing articles - organizing category structures, designing skins, logos, templates, tinkering with custom CSS styles and JavaScript functionalities, playing around with available extensions, keeping everything in a clean, intuitive, ordered and consistent format - so generally all the stuff nobody ever cares about. When not doing wiki-work, he enjoys mountain biking and knows the Silesian Beskids inside out. He is an admin on a handful of small gaming wikis.
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| Юрий User:Kuzura
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Юрий (Kuzura) is a Russian helper. In real life, he is a scientist who investigates corrosion of metals. He likes science fiction, fantasy and good animation films and serials. He began as simple user on the Russian Lostpedia. Then he became the first Russian admin of Russian Lostpedia. After the completion of the LOST series he began working on the Russian Avatar Wiki and the Russian Community Wiki.
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The members of Wikia's International Community Development Team are here to help you make your wiki rock. They optimize wiki front pages, design cool skins and logos, make wikis easier to navigate and can give you a lot of good advise how to further improve your wiki.
| Spinelli313 User:Spinelli313
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Spinelli313 is a member of the German Community Development Team with a focus on Entertainment topics. She has a huge passion for movies, tv-shows and useless trivia that makes our lives so much more fun.
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| Johannes User:Foppes
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Foppes is a member of the German Community Development Team with a focus on Gaming topics. He is a gamer at heart and helps us to push Gaming in German wikis to the next level. Up1!
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| Micha User:ElBosso
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Micha works as a content editor in German wikis. He started playing Games in the golden area of text adventures ("Ken sent me") and his first gaming console was the NES.
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| Pony Slaystation User:Pony Slaystation
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PonySlaystation works as a content editor in German wikis and also deals with our international social media channels. He joined us for an internship mid 2011 and we didn't let him go afterwards.
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| Héctor Donís User:CuBaN VeRcEttI
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CuBaN VeRcEttI is a member of the Spanish Community Development Team, working as content editor. He is bureaucrat on Metal Gear Wiki, and he'd continued to contribute in other wikis, mostly dedicated to videogames. He is a fan of music and videogames, among other topics. Moreover, he usually give a helping hand at the Catalan communities.
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