Wikia, Inc.
Wikia - creating communities
Wikia is operated by Wikia, Inc. with offices in San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, and Poznań, Poland. Remote staff are located in Chile, England, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and also in other locations in Poland and the US. Wikia's staff members have over 60 years of combined Wikipedia experience.
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History
Wikia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley in 2004. The company is incorporated in Delaware. Gil Penchina became Wikia's CEO in June 2006, at the same time the company moved its headquarters from Florida to California. In September, 2006, Wikia opened an office in Poznan, Poland. The New York office opened when Wikia acquired ArmchairGM in December 2006. Wikia has received two rounds of investment; in March 2006 from Bessemer Venture Partners and in December 2006 from Amazon.com.
Contact
See contact us for more details on contacting Wikia.
Board of Directors
- Jimmy Wales, Chair
- Gil Penchina, CEO
- Jeremy Levine, Bessemer Venture Partners
- Jeff Blackburn, Amazon
Staff
See Community Team and Technical Team for photos and details.
San Francisco office
- Gil Penchina, Chief Executive Officer
- Michael Davis, Chief Operating Officer
- Bill Kaufmann, VP, Community, Content and Product Marketing
- Artur Bergman, VP, Engineering
- Angie Shelton, GM, Gaming
- Danny Horn, Entertainment
- Justin Lynn, Community Team
- Christian Williams, Design/Front-End Development
- Nick Sullivan, Engineering
- Kyle Harmon, Gaming
- Greg Lanz, Advertising
- Douglas Kennedy, Gaming Marketing
- Diane Murphy, Office Manager
- Jason Cook, Operations
- Andrew Yasinsky, Technical
Poznań office
See also Technical Team
- Emil Podlaszewski, Product development
- Inez Korczyński, Product development
- Przemek Piotrowski, Product development
- Lucas Garczewski (TOR), Product development
- Maciej Brencz, Product development
- Bartek Łapiński, Product development
- Przemysław Malkowski, Operations
- Paweł Rein, Operations
- Krzysztof Krzyżaniak, Product development
- Piotr Molski, Product development
- Maciej Błaszkowski (Marooned), Product development
- Łukasz Gałęzewski, Quality assurance
- Adrian Wieczorek, Product development
New York Office
The New York Office is the Wikia design, technical and development division in New York. It has two primary focuses, Wikia Search and development of the social features used on such wikis as Age of Conan, FFXIclopedia, and Halopedia.
The team includes, but is not limited to:
- Jimbo Wales - "community design, search"
- Dan Lewis - "community management and outreach, partner development"
- David Pean -
- Jeff Tierney -
Remote
- Iowa, US: Jeremie Miller, Search
- Australia: Angela Beesley, Co-founder and Community Team
- England: Lisa Carter (sannse), Community Team
- Taiwan: 許瑜真 (Yuchen Hsu/ KJ), Community Team
- Chile: Juan David Ruiz (Zuirdj), Community Team
- US: Catherine Munro, Community Team
- Japan: Shun Fukuzawa (Yukichi), Community Team
- Germany: Tim Bartel (Avatar), Community Team
- Germany: Thomas Wenk, Community Team
- Texas, US: Dennis Kubes, Wikia Search
