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Scott Abbott User:XD1
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Scott Abbott, commonly known to staff as "Abbott," joined the Community Development team in March of 2010 after being discovered grammar-policing by Sena Hineline (then, Roth). Originally from California's central coast, and now hailing from central Oregon, he has been computer gaming since 1979 (Apple II+), has been online since 1987 (GEnie), and online gaming since 1988 (Air Warrior). Raised on Apple and Macintosh, Abbott is now the only member of his family who is a "PC."
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Jamie User:Alwaysmore2hear
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Jamie joined the Wikia Community Development team in 2014. She is a Music Historian, Ethnomusicologist and pop culture fiend. She's worked with arts organizations like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Smithsonian Folkways, The Kennedy Center and bands like Pomplamoose and The Family Crest. As a trained singer, she can also be found harmonizing with the ladies of Conspiracy of Venus. When not singing, she can be found falling into a YouTube time suck, reading Harry Potter (again) and watching anything on HBO. Feel free to drop her a line, especially if it’s about a band you’re really into!
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Jorge Albor User:JAlbor
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Jorge Albor joined Wikia in March of 2012, but he's been writing and podcasting about video games for many years. He studied games in college too. Frankly, it's freakish how much time he spends engaging with entertainment. No wonder he works on video game wikias.
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Doug Trein User:TheBlueRogue
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Doug is a gaming-focused member of the Development Team who joined Wikia in August, 2012. Doug's passion for videogames would begin at the age of 5 with Sonic the Hedgehog and the Sega Genesis. Over the years, he would experience newer consoles and the joys of PC gaming. Doug enjoys the immersion that videogames can bring, along with exciting/emotional storytelling experiences. Taking an interest in game development, Doug joined an independent game company Lightborne Lore to create games of his own. Doug's favorite genres include JRPGs, first-person shooters, 2D fighters, and action/adventure games. Doug's interests also include music listening, anime/manga, paranormal/history topics, and hiking.
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Grace Cheung User:Gcheung28
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Grace Cheung joined Wikia's Community Development Team in September 2012. Aside from a passion for instagramming her fantastic meals, Grace loves watching shows like Adventure Time, Game of Thrones, Orphan Black, and any animes that happen to catch her interest. Her love of entertainment covers books as well, and her obsession with Harry Potter will probably last until she is as old and wise as Professor Dumbledore (aka forever).
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Raylan User:Raylan13
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Raylan has been with Wikia since late 2010, initially working solely on WoWWiki and covering Warcraft related news. Prior to that he worked as an editor for 38Studios with their Warcraft project, the now-defunct Azeroth Advisor.
His hobbies, aside from Warcraft, include reading voraciously, enjoying the outdoors, crafting liqueurs, and working on various manuscripts.
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Matt Hadick User:Matt_Hadick
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Matt joined Wikia in 2013 and currently helps develop video game communities. He has been playing games since he was a kid and enjoys thinking, writing, and dreaming about all things gaming. He plays Netrunner with Jorge, makes a ton of video game music, and wants only to finally get his hands on The Last Guardian. His favorite game of all time is probably The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Or the original Metroid Prime. Or Ico. Or Rez. Or maybe Ikaruga. Wait, it's definitely Katamari Damacy. Actually, no, it's Earthbound. In addition to games, Matt likes weird music, science fiction, and riding his bike. (Note: He is infinitely better than Mike Grimm and Miguel Lopez at video games.)
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Ariana Snow User:Asnow89
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Ariana Snow joined Wikia's Community Development team in April 2013 as the Food & Drink representative. As you might be able to tell from her job title, she has a passion for food- whether it be baking pies at home, going out to her favorite neighborhood pizzeria, or browsing dozens of food blogs daily (her favorite is Smitten Kitchen). Aside from food, Ariana enjoys watching shows like Game of Thrones, True Blood, and The Mindy Project.
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Michael Grimm User:Pseudobread
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Michael joined Wikia in 2013, and is currently helping out with the Gaming side of things. This makes sense since he's a hopelessly addicted gamer who's been playing and writing about games as far back as he can recall. He loves music, automobiles/motorcycles, Earthbound, Dark Souls, and dark liquors. Enjoys making people laugh and disseminating funny links amongst the world.
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Chen Shen User:Cal-Boy
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Chen just recently joined Wikia (July, 2013) and works as a Chinese Community Development Associate. He was born in northern China and immigrated to the U.S. in 2008. Before joining Wikia, he worked in TV and fashion industry for a few years and then switched to digital media. When he is not at work, he loves art and likes creating stuff with wires and clay. He also loves coffee, tea and all kinds of desserts.
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Vladimir User:Vlazovskiy
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Vladimir joined Wikia in June, 2015 as a Russian Community Development Associate. During the nine years he has lived in the US, Vladimir has been to both East and West Coasts but chose to stay in Los Angeles and afterwards moved to Berkeley for school. At UC Berkeley, he majored in Mathematics and Women's Studies. Vladimir is a feminist and a gamer who also enjoys opera and symphony. A long-time Wikia user, Vladimir was very happy to take this position and turn his hobby into a job!
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Nico Faraguna User:Knakveey
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Nico started off his career at Wikia as an IT Assistant and quickly jumped at the opportunity to work with video games. He enjoys all types of games, but mostly sticks to the PC platform. Some of his current favorites are DOTA 2, CIV 5, and Path of Exile. When he's not playing games, he enjoys rock climbing, watching sports and tinkering with his motorcycle. Feel free to add him on Steam to play some games!
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Kim Deuel User:Pinkachu
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Kim joined the Community Development Team in October, 2014, and her area of expertise is video games. She prefers MMORPGs but has been playing games of many genres and platforms since the mid-80s. She took programming in college, but found she preferred PC repair and networking and pursued those areas as a career. She plays games with her husband, children and now grandchildren, and is joined at home by two small dogs and four ferrets. Her other hobbies include singing, amateur photography and painting ceramics. From 1998 to 2014, she owned and rode her own Harley. She no longer has the motorcycle, but still enjoys traveling and meeting new people.
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Keiko User:Charicocco
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Keiko joined the team as the Community Development Manager, Japan in November, 2014. She loves listening to music - rock, punk, classical and jazz; and plays trumpet, guitar and piano. As a native of Japan, she grew up watching anime and reading manga. Some of her favorites are ONE PIECE, Kuroko’s Basketball and Stein’s Gate. Feel free to ask her any questions about Japanese culture!
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Amanda User:Witnessme
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Amanda joined Wikia's Community Development team in July 2015. She can always be found reading a book and knows (almost) every line from the movie Back to the Future. Her favorite super hero is Ms. Marvel and she would potentially leave her boyfriend for Harrison Ford (Sorry Brian!). Get in touch with her if you need help building/editing wikias or if you just want to shoot the breeze.
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Tim Quievryn User:daNASCAT
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Tim Quievryn, Wikia's Director of Technical Support, has been editing wikis since 2004 and been working here at Wikia since mid-2009. Stock car racing, photography, and hiking are his main hobbies, but he loves staying to learn a little bit about the topic of each wikia he helps out. Seek him out via email support, talk page, or Community Central Chat. He'll be glad to talk to you!
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Joe User:JoePlay
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Before joining Wikia in 2007, Joe built and managed video game fansites and forums as a hobby while working in the retail industry. He also owned and operated a video game/tabletop game store in 2005-2006. These days, he is responsible for managing requests for help from admins.
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Kirkburn User:Kirkburn
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Kirkburn, sometimes known as George, joined the Community Support team in late 2012, having been a product manager at Wikia for several years. Kirkburn is not a recovering WoW-addict - indeed, he has not stopped playing since launch day in 2005, and it was joining WoWWiki a year later that got him into wikias. (He does play other games too.) He trained as a Civil Engineer, but is not going to make any jokes about 'building bridges with the community' here.
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CzechOut User:CzechOut
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Before there was a CzechOut, there was just some anonymous guy editing Wikia back when it was WikiCities. So he's been around for the whole Wikia story, but only started working here in 2014. When not undercover on some secret Special Operations project, he can usually be found feeding a life-long Doctor Who obsession at Tardis, internally debating whether he better likes Irish whiskey or a good single malt, getting lost in a new city, or digging deep into the latest Apple® product.
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Rappy User:Rappy 4187
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Rappy has been editing Wikia since 2008, and joined the VSTF in March 2012 and later hired on as a Community Support team member. You can find him playing Aion and editing at the Aion Wiki in his spare time.
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Mark van Alphen User:MarkvA
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Mark joined Wikia's Community Development Team in December 2009, after having edited various wikias the year before that. Mark's especially interested in western role-playing games, as well as stealth-focused action games. Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Hitman and Splinter Cell are among his favorite games. If you'd like to get in touch with him, feel free to leave a message on his wall.
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Isaac Fischer FishTank
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Isaac rose from the ranks of Wikia contributors to join the Community Technical team in late 2015. Isaac is a television and book fanatic, a sucker for the great outdoors, and a lifelong learner. He's been coding since before attending school, but didn't discover Wikia until 2010. Even now, he's hard-pressed to identify his favorite fandoms.
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