I'm a co-founder of Wikia. We're supporting the creation and development of more than 10,000 wikis in 100 different languages, including many of the world's largest community-created wikis such as encyclopedias of Star Wars and Star Trek, the Marvel Database Project, the Psychology Wiki, the Wikipedia parody Uncyclopedia, and guides to all the best games including World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XI, and GuildWars.

I am chair of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation responsible for Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, the Commons, and the other Wikimedia projects. Prior to this, I was an elected trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. I have been a volunteer editor at Wikipedia since February 2003.

I contributed a chapter on managing wikis to the book Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration which was edited by Jane Klobas and published by Chandos, Oxford in June 2006. An Italian version was published in 2007 under the title Oltre Wikipedia.

I've given presentations about wikis in 11 countries to groups ranging from student activists to corporate audiences. I also serve as a member of the program committee for Wikimania.

My background before wikis was in psychology. I previously worked as an educational researcher and developer of student assessments.

I'm originally from East Anglia and moved to Australia in 2005.

To contact me, please send an email to wiki_@nge.la.

Links:

• my wiki blog
• my personal blog
• my facebook profile
• my profile on geekspeakr
• start a wiki