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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 run by Wikia, Inc. that target different communities. It is free of charge for readers and editors, and gets its income from advertisements. Wikia allows a broad range of requests to start a new community project. With the exception of ideas that might compete with the , which the Wikia founders are heavily involved in, most broadly scoped projects are acceptable. Certain types of content are prohibited, including promotion of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. To gain approval for the creation of a Wikia, would-be founders are asked to formulate a mission statement specifying the objectives of the project. Wikia requires all content to be licensed under GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) or multi-licensed under GFDL and another Free Content licence. Wikia also has some crossover with Wikipedia , with the communities of Wikia being linked on the relevant Wikipedia article in many cases. Some popular communities on the site are the wikis for '''' {Link without Title} . Wikia runs on wiki on February 3 2005 . As of March 2006, it had over 1000 wikis in 35 different languages. Wikia provides both technical and social support for all aspects of running a wiki community. On March 27 2006 , following the change in name, Wikia announced that it had received $4 million in venture capital from a group of investors. {Link without Title} Wikiasari was a project run by Wales that attempted to create a Copyleft Search Engine . The Wikiasari project used to be called Wikia. EXTERNAL LINKS
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