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Wikia

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Wikia is the definitive place for people to collaboratively pursue their interests and share their knowledge on the web. Using Wikia, anyone can form new communities around any subject they love or participate in over 250,000 existing communities by reading or contributing new content.

The Wikia Gaming Network maintains many of the largest gaming wikis, including WoWWiki, the World of Warcraft wiki with more than 95,000 articles. Wikia also hosts Wikianswers, a collaborate question and answer site.

With more than five million pages of rich content, Wikia’s communities are the most authoritative information about any topic on the Internet. Launched by co-founders Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, Wikia attracts more than 60 million global unique visitors per month and is a Top 40 Internet site according to Quantcast.

Wikia is independent of Wikipedia and uses a for-profit model with ad revenues, however the site uses the same wiki software application as Wikipedia, called MediaWiki.

Recent Milestones

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  Wikia received $10.8M in Series C funding. (11/30/12)
  Posted 11/30/12 at 6:17pm via techcrunch.com
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  Wikia added Mark Davis as VP Engineering. (8/31/12)
  Posted 9/7/12 at 4:53pm
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  Wikia added Craig Palmer as CEO. (10/1/11)
  Posted 11/22/11 at 9:44pm
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  Wikia added Alessandra Barlas as Marketing Solutions. (2/23/11)
  Posted 9/11/12 at 10:57am
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  Wikia added Mike Schwartz as SVP Engineering & Operations. (4/1/10)
  Posted 9/11/12 at 6:05pm
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  Wikia acquired Lyric Wiki. (1/1/09)
  Posted 10/20/09 at 3:49am via paidcontent.org
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  Wikia received $10M in Series B funding. (12/1/06)
  Posted 7/30/07 at 10:51pm via wikia.com
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  Wikia added Bill Kaufmann as SVP, Business Operations. (7/1/06)
  Posted 9/11/12 at 10:38am
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  Wikia added Gil Penchina as CEO. (5/1/06)
  Posted 7/30/07 at 10:22pm
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  Wikia received $4M in Series A funding. (3/1/06)
  Posted 7/30/07 at 10:27pm via wikia.com
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  Wikia added Angela Beesley Starling as Co-Founder. (1/1/04)
  Posted 7/30/07 at 10:25pm
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  Wikia received () in Angel funding. (1/1/04)
  Posted 8/17/11 at 2:34pm
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  Wikia added Jimmy Wales as Co-Founder.
  Posted 7/30/07 at 10:23pm
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  Wikia added Shahid Hussain as Product Manager.
  Posted 4/2/12 at 9:51am

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Sources

1. Wikia Buys Lyric Wiki As Part Of Music Expansion (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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3. wikia.com [edit]
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5. With 1B Pageviews Under Its Belt, UGC Giant Wikia Raises $10.8M From IVP, Bessemer & Amazon (techcrunch.com) [edit]