- Location Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Website
- http://www.wikia.com/
- Founded on
- 1 de Nov. de 2004
- Keywords
- search crunchbase wikia wiki techcrunch wikibasedsearch
Company Profile
Wikia provides hosting, support, and development for wiki-based communities. The <a href="http://gaming.wikia.com/" title="Wikia Gaming Network" rel="nofollow">Wikia Gaming Network</a> maintains many of the largest gaming wikis, including <a href="http://wowwiki.com/" title="WoWWiki" rel="nofollow">WoWWiki</a>, the World of Warcraft wiki with more than 75,000 articles. Wikia also hosts <a href="http://answers.wikia.com/" title="Wikianswers" rel="nofollow">Wikianswers</a>, a collaborate question and answer site.
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, founded Wikia with Angela Beesley. Wikia is independent of Wikipedia and uses a for-profit model with ad revenues. Its main competitors include <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/wetpaint" title="Wetpaint">Wetpaint</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/pbwiki" title="pbworks">pbworks</a>, and <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/socialtext" title="Socialtext">Socialtext</a>.</p>
<p>The site uses the same wiki software application as Wikipedia called MediaWiki. </p>