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  Wikia - Wikis from Wikia - Join the best wiki communities
Wikia is the place for communities to come together.
Learn more about who we are and why this is the best place to start your wiki.
Wikia® is a registered service mark of Wikia, Inc. All rights reserved.
www.wikia.com   (74 words)

  
 Wikia to offer free Web building software | ITVidya.com
The move follows the announcement last week that Amazon.com had become Wikia's first corporate investor and is acting as the sole investor in Wikia's second round of funding.
Wikia took $4 million in funding in March from Bessemer Venture Partners, Omidyar Network, high-profile Silicon Valley "angel" backers including Marc Andreessen, Dan Gillmor, Reid Hoffman and Mitch Kapor and Joichi Ito of Japan.
Wikia aims to become is a clearinghouse of free software.
www.itvidya.com /wikia_to_offer_free_web_building_software   (671 words)

  
 Terms of use - Wikia Central
Any content you upload or post to any Wikia, Inc. wiki must be compatible with the relevant license (for example, the GFDL for any Wikia, or the relevant CC license for other wikis), not violate another person's intellectual property or infringe on any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other proprietary rights.
Wikia, Inc. reserves the right to refuse access to their sites, or to refuse the creation of a Wikia, to any user, for any reason.
Wikia, Inc. shall not be held liable for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of any wiki, or of the service as a whole.
www.wikicities.com /wiki/Terms_of_use   (1342 words)

  
 Rescue your wiki - Rescuing wiki.com sites - a Wikia wiki
Wikia's offer to wiki.com users is still open and we are still happy to find you a new home at Wikia if you wish to move your wiki.
Wikia Scratchpad Wiki Labs is a project for personal wikis, temporary wikis, and wikis aimed at very small groups.
Wikia is a community-focused wiki and offers free support to help users create, build, develop, promote, and maintain their wiki.
rescued.wikia.com /wiki/Rescue_your_wiki   (678 words)

  
 As U.S. Election Nears Jimmy Wales' Voter Guide, 'Campaigns Wikia,' Grows To More Than 600 Articles In ...
Launched on July 4, 2006, Jimmy Wales created Campaigns Wikia to provide people on all sides of the political spectrum a central forum to gather and share their diverse political perspectives.
Wikia enables groups to share information, news, stories, media and opinions that fall outside the scope of an encyclopedia.
Wikia is committed to openness, inviting anyone to contribute web content.
prweb.com /releases/2006/11/prweb471722.htm   (621 words)

  
 globeandmail.com: It's a wiki world
Enter Wikia, a rapidly growing site for people who want to set up wikis of their own.
But instead of trying to embrace the universe, Wikia wikis are meant to provide a home for communities with a specific focus, be it a devotion to the TV show Lost, a Harry Potter fetish, or an interest in something as broad as the study of genealogy.
Wikia is still a young service; until mid-2006, it was known as Wikicities, which proved confusing to users.
www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/RTGAM.20070112.gtweb12/BNStory/Technology/home   (944 words)

  
 Wikia launches semi-private university wikis
Wikia, formerly Wikicities, has launched a section of their site dedicated to semi-private college and university wikis.
Taking a page from Facebook's humble beginnings, Wikia's motivation for limiting edits to those affiliated with member schools is to keep the editing community small and exclusive to each wiki.
Wikia is hopeful that the same feeling will spread over to the college wikis, where students can read and edit content about their beloved schools with the knowledge that only other students, faculty, and alumni have editing access.
arstechnica.com /news.ars/post/20061005-7914.html   (344 words)

  
 Wikia Community Chat and Support
Wikia chat is for help with a Wikia-hosted wiki, such as starting a wiki, editing, or dealing with problem users.
The #wikia channel is for wiki help, not for specific information related to the topic of any one wiki.
If you wish to access a channel that is not on the list, please use http://java.freenode.net/ instead.
irc.wikia.com   (131 words)

  
 Amazon invests in Wikia
In a statement, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Wikia, had "cracked the code for user-generated content." He said Amazon wanted to "support the continued growth" of sites like it.
Wikia founders Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesly raised some $4million to launch the site in November 2004, on which some 30,000 people have posted stuff.
Wikia also announced it had spent more than $2 million of that to buy ArmchairGM, this week.
www.theinquirer.net /default.aspx?article=36218   (195 words)

  
 wikia - TechCrunch
Wikia confirms that they currently have nothing more than a “default” deal with Google for text ads on their site.
Despite the fact that the original article reported that Amazon is involved in the project, Wikia is making it clear on the site that they are not invovled in any way (other than as a shareholder of Wikia).
It is also noteworthy that Wikia received an undisclosed amount of funding from Amazon just weeks ago, which is likely an important contributing factor to Wikia’s ability to do this.
www.techcrunch.com /tag/wikia   (1910 words)

  
 Access Granted: Followers Of The Hit FOX Show '24' Help Expand A Wiki Created By Fans, For Fans
If you are a new 24 fan, The Wikia 24 site has detailed information on the first five seasons of the show that is sure to get you up to speed.
Wikia enables groups to share information, news, stories, media and opinions that fall outside the scope of an encyclopedia.
Wikia is committed to openness, inviting anyone to contribute web content.
www.prweb.com /releases/2007/1/prweb497682.htm   (451 words)

  
 Tech2.com India > Wikia Offers Free Web-hosting > News on Internet
Wikia, Inc., provider of community resources for building free content, has announced OpenServing, the next step in founder and chairman Jimmy Wales'; vision for community-centered content and computing.
Wikia's OpenServing gives away hosting services and 100 percent of ad revenues to Wikia partners, providing entrepreneurial business models to bloggers and web site owners.
Wikia's OpenServing extends the essence of the open source model — free software and content — to all aspects of web-based computing.
www.tech2.com /india/news/internet/wikia-offers-free-webhosting/3251/0   (564 words)

  
 Wikia Launches New Community Websites, Adds Highly Interactive Features in On-Going Quest for Collaboration
NEW YORK (PRWEB) February 13, 2007 -- Wikia, Inc., the leading provider of community resources for building free content on every topic, today unveiled three new communities for entertainment, local and politics, in a move designed to significantly enhance the ability of passionate people to collaborate online.
Since Wikia's launch in November 2004, over 400,000 articles on 2,000 topics have been created and edited by over 65,000 registered users in 45 languages.
Currently, Wikia hosts a variety of sites including, the Music Wikia, the Marvel Comics Wikia, and the online travel guide, World Wikia.
prweb.com /releases/2007/2/prweb504206.htm   (821 words)

  
 Amazon Puts Faith -- and Money -- in Wikia - Technology - RedOrbit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Wikia will use the infusion of venture capital to buy more community sites, said Wikia Chief Executive Gil Penchina.
Wikia is less like an online Encyclopedia Britannica and more like a multipurpose version of the travel guide and opinion site TripAdvisor.
When Wikia readers click on advertisements provided by Google AdSense, the company doesn't have to pay a share to the writers.
www.redorbit.com /news/technology/758407/amazon_puts_faith__and_money__in_wikia/index.html?source=r_technology   (581 words)

  
 Amazon puts faith -- and money -- in Wikia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
On Wikia, communities gather virtually to create Web pages devoted to any subject ranging from the city of Calgary to television shows like '24.'
Wikia will use the infusion of venture capital to buy more community sites, said Wikia Chief Executive Gil Penchina.
When Wikia readers click on advertisements provided by Google AdSense, the company doesn't have to pay a share to the writers.
www.topix.net /content/kri/0823928800175346185637139708933177034350   (770 words)

  
 Marvel Database:Wikia - Marvel Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Marvel and DC Database Projects have entered negotiations with Wikia for services to be provided to the projects in order to move forward and remain competitive in the Comic Wiki niche of the Internet.
A partnership with Wikia would bring our projects into this realm of influence where it would be easier to secure partnerships and alliances to keep us moving forward.
One distinct advantage to a partnership with Wikia is that all of Wikia's membership, currently tens of thousands of users, would be instantly exposed to our project.
www.marveldatabase.com /Marvel_Database:Wikia   (1118 words)

  
 Wikia - Wikiversity
Wikia, formerly know as Wikicities are wikis for an array of special interest groups, colleges, universities, fan bases and a host of other club-type entities.
An effort is being put forth by MetaCollab Wikia to make the process of linking Wikiversity topics, and Wikia communities of interest through a new topical matrix program.
Wikiversity outreach: Wikiversity participants are invited to list their topics below to opt in to the Wikia collaboration process, without leaving the Wikiversity domain.
en.wikiversity.org /wiki/Wikia   (241 words)

  
 Wikia-inc Corporate Site
Wikia is a project with the aim of creating freely hosted wiki communities that was founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley in October 2004.
Wikia is run by Wikia, Inc., the company who have hosted Memory Alpha, a large Star Trek wiki since February 2005, and Uncyclopedia, a parody site, since May 2005.
Gil Penchina became Wikia's CEO in June 2006, at the same time the company moved its headquarters from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Menlo Park in California.
www.wikia-inc.com /wiki/About_Wikia   (189 words)

  
 Wikia - Build Your Own Wiki
Anyone is free to start a new Wikia in accordance with the creation policy and terms of use.
Wikia was founded by Angela Beesley and Jimmy Wales in October 2004.
They also prohibit users from adding their own advertising to a Wikia site unless it is expressly approved by Wikia.
mashable.com /2006/03/28/wikia-build-your-own-wiki   (727 words)

  
 Wikia Unveils Four Additional Open Source 'Magazine' Sites
NEW YORK (PRWEB) April 12, 2007 -- Wikia, Inc., the leading provider of community resources for building free content on every topic, today announced the addition of four new communities to its "open source magazine" project.
The new user-driven sites, which focus on restaurants, food, fitness and mortgages, continue Wikia's mission to give people the interactive tools needed to easily collaborate online with others around their favorite topics.
Since Wikia's launch in November 2004, over 400,000 articles on 2,000 topics have been created and edited by over 100,000 registered users in 55 languages.
www.prweb.com /releases/2007/4/prweb518486.htm   (668 words)

  
 wikia - SWiK
This strikes me as a risky move, being that large successful verticals will be a large risk as they may want to move out of wikia and into their own hosting.
The largest vertical wiki on wikia is the Wookiepedia, the main star wars universe wiki.
Wikia - Wikia Central - A Wikia wiki
swik.net /wikia?tagThis   (1398 words)

  
 paidContent.org: The Economics of Content - Amazon Sole Investor In Round 2 Funding For Wikia; Wikia Acquires ArmchairGM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In the release, Amazon Chairman Jeff Bezos explained the investment: “We want to support the continued growth of sites like Wikia, which has cracked the code for user-generated content.” Wales said Wikia will use the funding to expand internationally and to expand topics covered.
VentureBeat: “Part of Wikia’s round (amount undisclosed) includes the purchase of the sports community site, ArmchairGM for more than $2 million, underscoring how Wikia is having to reach out to acquire talent and technology.
Wikia says it will use the ArmChairGM technology to help it incorporate user-generated news and voting into future Wikia fan sites.
www.paidcontent.org /entry/amazon-sole-investor-in-round-2-funding-for-wikia   (476 words)

  
 Wikia Launches Free Social Media Platform
This time is was Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia, announcing that they’d (1) purchased super active social media site ArmChairGM.com, and (2) have released the foundational software that ArmChairGM runs on as a free Wiki and Social Media platform.
In his talk today Gil didn’t claim to have a business plan, but rather to be operating under the assumption that if they (the jabbering and photo snapping masses) share, one will come.
Wikia offers free MediaWiki hosting and is currently advertising supported.
www.cmswire.com /cms/micro-cms/wikia-launches-free-social-media-platform-000966.php   (495 words)

  
 Wikia Unveils OpenServing - the Mother of All Freebies
Wikia's OpenServing takes the unprecedented step of not only giving away hosting services, but actually giving 100% of ad revenues to Wikia partners, providing a whole new world of entrepreneurial business models to bloggers and web site owners.
To launch OpenServing, Wikia is offering-up the powerful, user-friendly technology from recently-acquired ArmchairGM.com as the first of hundreds of freely licensed software packages to be hosted in the near future.
Wikia hosts a broad selection of topics including: Politics at http://campaigns.wikia.com Psychology at http://psychology.wikia.com the Lost TV Show at http://lost.wikia.com the iPod wiki at http://ipod.wikia.com and Travel Guides at http://world.wikia.com
www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/-wikia-unveils-openserving-mother-all-freebies-/2006/12/11/2155290.htm   (1352 words)

  
 Wikia Announces OpenServing
Wikia, Inc., a community resources for building free content on topics, yesterday announced OpenServing, a next step in Jimmy Wales's vision for community-centered content and computing.
The Wikia's OpenServing offers free software, bandwidth, storage, computing power, content over the Internet and 100% of the ad inventory and revenue to bloggers and website owners who partner with Wikia.
Wikia plans to enhance the software with usability, spam prevention and community management, says the company.
www.webhosting.info /news/1/wikia-announces-openserving_1212062910.htm   (264 words)

  
 Main Page - Bungiepedia - a Wikia wiki
Bungiepedia is a fan-administered Wikia devoted to providing a vast amount of information about Bungie Studios.
The Bungiepedia Wikia is dedicated to providing information about Bungie.net, Bungie Studios, Bungie's fan base and its employees.
Be aware that this is not a Halo Wikia.
bungie.wikia.com /wiki/Main_Page   (299 words)

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