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Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia is focusing on accuracy...which will dictate the shape of Wikipedia's future and its capacity to grow. Mr Wales also dedicates a bulk of his time to growing Wikia, his for-profit site, which has thousands of wikis on thousands of topics - but with... In this article: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, Wikia, Arabic Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wikia Search, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Wikimedia Foundation, and Princess Caroline |
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TechCrunch | November 13, 2009
Craigslist's Craig Newmark Joins Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board
...draft of history. " Current advisory board members include: Angela Beesley Starling (Chair, Wikimedia Advisory Board; co-founder, Wikia) Ward Cunningham (Developer of the first wiki) Melissa Hagemann (Open access and open education...
In this article: Craig Newmark, Craigslist, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Global Voices Online, Aalto University, Mozilla Foundation, and Lotus Development
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PC World: Latest Technology News | November 10, 2009
Lyrics Licensed but With Limitations
...and lyrics are starting to reappear in licensed form. For example, LyricWiki has shut down under its former ownership and is now run by Wikia, which has a licensing deal with Gracenote for legally distributing lyrics. In the process the...
In this article: Iphone, Itunes, IPod, Gracenote, Apple, and Talking Heads
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CNET News.com | November 06, 2009
Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
...people think he's a hero or villain. With my tweet I'd been hoping to get a feel for opinion on the Wikipedia, Wikimedia and Wikia founder. Which is he then, I ask? Hero or villain? "Oh I would say both," he replies with a smile.
In this article: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, CNET News, Wikimedia, Twitter, and Microsoft
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eWEEK Technology News | November 06, 2009
Dynamic Network Services Offers CDN Manager
The company noted over the last few months, many current Dyn Inc. customers including Twitter, Homeaway, Zappos, Gigya, and Wikia have offered feedback and possible use cases of CDN Manager or field-tested the solution prior to today's...
In this article: Dynamic Network Services, All rights reserved, Homeaway, Gigya, Domain Name System, and Trademark
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PC World: Latest Technology News | October 27, 2009
Wikia Turns a Small Profit on Advertising
Wikia, the for-profit company built on user-contributed content, turned a small profit last quarter for the first time, said co-founder Jimmy Wales on Tuesday. Wikia "just barely" made a profit, but the results are encouraging, said...
In this article: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, and London
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VentureBeat | October 27, 2009
Wikia, site for user-generated topic pages, sees explosion of growth
...appears similar to the final output. In just the last two months, the number of global visitors to Wikia (see VentureBeat's profile of Wikia) has climbed to 24 million a month, up from 18 million a month. The site is seeing eight...
In this article: Jimmy Wales, Revenue, Wikipedia, Quantcast, Gourmet, Twitter, Wysiwyg, and Symbian
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Wired: Epicenter | October 21, 2009
Wikia/HP Tie-Up Makes Magazine Publishers Of Us All
...business is struggling? So amateur competition could not come at a better time, and it comes Wednesday in the form of a partnership between Wikia and Hewlett-Packard that will put a magazine printing press in the hands of anyone who wants to...
In this article: Gourmet, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, Quantcast, Bon Appetit, University of Michigan, Amazon.com, Twitter, and Google
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Reuters | October 21, 2009
Wikipedia founder in HP online magazine print deal
Jimmy Wales, founder of the user-edited Wikipedia, said users will be able to publish personal magazines using content from Wikia sites. Traditional magazine readership is in decline, with some closing, and the new initiative is...
In this article: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, Revenue, Wikimedia Foundation, Hewlett Packard, and Reuters
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Centre Daily Times | October 21, 2009
HP Brings Magazine Publishing to Wikia Through New MagCloud Collaboration
...on his blog. More information about how Wikia users access MagCloud is available at http://www.wikia.com/wiki/MagCloud. Wikia is now a top 100 site on the Internet, according to Quantcast (www. quantcast. com/p-8bG6eLqkH6Avk), and...
In this article: Jimmy Wales, HP Labs, RSS Feeds, Carrying cost, Fiscal year, Waste, Cloud computing, and Wikipedia
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VentureBeat | October 21, 2009
HP lets you print old books or Wikia pages as your own custom publications
...available about railroads that are available for printing on demand through the service. The Wikia idea stemmed from a talk that Wikipedia and Wikia founder Jimmy Wales gave at HP. Penchina said the talk led to discussions that led to the...
In this article: Gil Penchina, University of Michigan, Twitter, Google, Cloud computing, and HP Labs
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Description from Wikipedia:
Wikia (formerly Wikicities) is a free web hosting service for wikis (or wiki farms) operated by Wikia, Inc., a for-profit Delaware company founded in late 2004.
Wikia targets communities, both those established offline and those with a purely online following. Wikia is free of charge for readers and editors and licenses user-provided text content under the GNU Free Documentation License or, in the case of Memory Alpha and Uncyclopedia, a Creative Commons license (CC by-nc-sa). The wiki software used is MediaWiki.
Wikia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, respectively the Chairman Emeritus and Advisory Board chair of the Wikimedia Foundation.
- Name:
- Wikia, Inc.
- Type:
- Wiki farm
- Location City:
- San Mateo, CA
- Location Country:
- US
- Founder:
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- Angela Beesley
- Jimmy Wales
- Key People:
- Gil Penchina (CEO)
- Products:
- Wikia Search
- Revenue:
- ?
- No. of Employees:
- 42
- Motto:
- Creating Communities
- Language:
- Multilingual
- Status:
- Active
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