Wikia
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Wikia (formerly known as Wikicities) is a wiki hosting service created in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. It is a collection of wikis running on MediaWiki software and operated by Wikia, Inc. that target different communities. It is free of charge for readers and editors, and gets its income from advertisements. As of mid-2006 its Alexa Internet traffic ranking was around 3000. AdSense advertisements are present in most of its wikis.
[edit] Background
Wikia allows a broad range of requests to start a new community project. With the exception of ideas that might compete with the Wikimedia Project, which the Wikia founders are heavily involved in, most broadly scoped projects are acceptable. Wikia requires all content to be licensed under GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) or multi-licensed under GFDL and another free content license. Wikia also has some crossover with Wikipedia, with the communities of Wikia being linked on the relevant Wikipedia article in many cases.
Wikia runs on MediaWiki software on Linux servers. The project announced the creation of its one hundredth wiki on February 3, 2005. As of August 2006, it had over 1,500 wikis in 35 different languages. Wikia provides both technical and social support for all aspects of running a wiki community.
On March 27, 2006, WikiCities changed its name to Wikia to prevent confusion; some had mistakenly thought that WikiCities provided city guides. Following the change in name, Wikia announced that it had received US$4 million in venture capital from a group of investors.
[edit] Active Wikia sites
Wikia hosts a number of notable Wikia sites, including:
- Uncyclopedia, a satirical parody of Wikipedia Although Uncyclopedia states otherwise
- Wookieepedia, a Star Wars Wiki, along with a non-canon Star Wars fanon wiki and SW1ki, a Star Wars MUSH database
- Memory Alpha, a reference to the Star Trek series, and its non-canon partner (home)
- 香港網絡大典 (Hong Kong Network), an encyclopedia of virtual communities in Hong Kong
- WikiFur, an encyclopedia of furry fandom
- Dofus, a wiki dedicated to the MMORPG-like tactical game of the same name
- Muppet Wiki, a database on the works of Jim Henson, particularly The Muppets
- Cyber Nations Wiki, a wiki for players of the nation simulation game Cyber Nations
- RuneScape Wiki, a encyclopedia for the MMORPG RuneScape
- Teletraan-1, a fan-maintained database of Transformers knowledge
- Halopedia is usually ranked in the top 15 most active sites in page requests per day.
- Fallout 3, A fountain of knowledge for Fallout 3 information seekers and gamers.
