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Wikia (no official pronunciation2; originally "Wikicities") is a selective company founded in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley .3 Wikia particularly targets Communities , both those established Offline and those with a Purely Online Following . Wikia is free of charge for readers and editors. Wikia, Inc. has close ties in terms of personnel and resources with the for Wiki s it hosts, except for Memory Alpha and Uncyclopedia , which use a Creative Commons license. Wikia changed its name from Wikicities on . As a result, senior VP of business development Jeff Blackburn joined the company board.6 In November 2006, Wikia claimed to have spent only $5.74 on marketing, while generating 40 to 50 million page views. Certain Wikia projects have independently spent money on advertising.7 The company spent $2 million on ArmchairGM , a previously independently hosted site on the MediaWiki software. TOPICS AND WIKIS Wikia covers a broad range of topics; most widely scoped community projects are accepted, with the exception of ideas that compete with the Wikimedia Foundation's projects, which the Wikia founders are heavily involved in. Wikia requires all content to be licensed under one of many Free Content licenses, such as the Creative Commons Attribution and Attribution-Sharealike licenses or the GNU Free Documentation License . The project announced the creation of its one hundredth wiki on February 3 , 2005 .8 As of July 2007, it had over 3,000 wikis in over 50 languages.9 As of December 2006, its Alexa Traffic Ranking was around 250010 ( Uncyclopedia , Memory Alpha and WoWWiki, three of their most popular wikis, are not included in this figure). The largest source of Wikia.com traffic is its hosting of Wookieepedia , the Star Wars fan information wiki, accounting for 17% of Wikia traffic as of May 2007. The Wikia-hosted World of Warcraft Wiki gets even more traffic on a separate domain name.[http://alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwowwiki.com SOFTWARE Wikia uses MediaWiki software on Linux servers, and claims to provide both technical and social support for all aspects of running a wiki community.11 SEARCH ENGINES Wikiasari Wikia Inc. initially proposed creating a Copyleft Search Engine ; the software (but not the site) was named "Wikiasari" by a November 2004 naming contest.The name was derived from the Hawaiian word for "quick" and asari, Japanese for "rummaging search". The proposal became inactive as of 2005. Search Wikia On December 23 , 2006 , Wales made a passing comment regarding the possibility of a wiki-based internet search.12 The result was extensive media coverage in multiple languages, in outlets like '' The Guardian '', the '' Sydney Morning Herald '', and online editions of '' Forbes '' and '' Business Week '' publishing the statement as an announcement, forcing the company to re-brand and relaunch its previous search engine proposal under the temporary name of "Search Wikia." About search In a later interview, Wales attempted to clarify several issues. He said that funding received from Amazon.com was not specific to the search project and also restated that Wikia and Wikipedia have separate management. When asked whether the project was "formally announced," he said it was partly planned and partly a response to news coverage.13 Details of current ideas and brainstorming on Wikia Search developments can be found at the Search Wikia/Wikia Search site search.wikia.com . On 2007 . Retrieved 9 March 2007 . On , 2007 COMPANY |
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