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Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia is focusing on accuracy...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 advertising around the entries. It turned a profit for the first... 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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CNET News.com | November 06, 2009
Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
...our interview, asking whether 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...
In this article: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, CNET News, Wikimedia, Twitter, and Microsoft
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Yahoo! News | October 21, 2009
Wikipedia founder in HP online magazine print deal (Reuters)
Add articles about technology to your My Yahoo! 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...
In this article: Reuters Limited, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, All rights reserved, Revenue, and Yahoo
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ResourceShelf | October 15, 2009
Wikia Acquires LyricWiki, Gets Lyrics License from Gracenote
...LyricWiki, Gets Lyrics License from Gracenote Wikia, the wiki-building company started in 2004 by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, has acquired the LyricWiki database of licensed song lyrics. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. As part...
In this article: LyricWiki, Gracenote, Wikipedia, Sony, and Jimmy Wales
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SignOnSanDiego.com RSS Feeds Business | October 21, 2009
Wikipedia founder joins HP in magazine project
...for niche online communities, generating revenue through ad sales. Wales says the 5-year-old Wikia service turned its first profit last quarter, a year ahead of schedule. Wales hopes Wikia can transform the magazine industry the way...
In this article: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, Jerusalem, Revenue, and Hewlett-Packard
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PC World: Latest Technology News | October 27, 2009
Wikia Turns a Small Profit on Advertising
...encouraging, said Wales, who founded Wikipedia, the user-contributed online encyclopedia. Wikia operates independently of Wikipedia, which is a nonprofit. Wales spoke at the Symbian Exchange and Exposition in London. Wikia describes itself as...
In this article: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, and London
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VentureBeat | October 21, 2009
HP lets you print old books or Wikia pages as your own custom publications
...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 collaboration.
In this article: Gil Penchina, University of Michigan, Twitter, Google, Cloud computing, and HP Labs
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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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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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