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Wikia (formerly Wikicities) is a free web hosting service for wikis (or wiki farm) which targets communities, both those established offline and those with a purely online following. It is free of charge for readers and editors, deriving its income from advertising, and publishes all user-provided text under copyleft licenses.
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Type of business | Private |
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Type of site | Wiki farm |
Available in | Multilingual |
Founded | 2004 |
Headquarters | , |
Founder(s) | Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley |
Key people | Gil Penchina (CEO) |
Products | Wiki hosting |
Employees | 42 (September 2008)[1] |
URL | www.wikia.com |
Advertising | Direct and ad networks |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 2004 |
Current status | Active |
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Wikia hosts several thousand wikis using the wiki software MediaWiki. Its operator, Wikia, Inc., is a for-profit Delaware company founded in late 2004[2] by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley—respectively Chairman Emeritus and Advisory Board chair of the Wikimedia Foundation—and headed by Gil Penchina.