User:Kirkburn

kirkburn

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.

What's my class?

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 abilities do I have?

Normally I swoop in to help with one of several things:

• 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.

[edit] 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 normally catch me 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!

[edit] 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.

Why "Kirkburn"?

No particular reason. I've used it for about ten years, 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.

[edit] 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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