WikiApiary:Wikia

Farming information for Wikia

Current status: Farming

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Note: Wikia, currently branded as Fandom, and originally known as Wikicities (until 27 March 2006), is a collection of over 250,000 wiki sites. Known as a 'wiki farm', it is owned by its parent company Wikia, Inc. (now Fandom, Inc.). Wikicities was founded 18 October 2004 by American internet entrepreneur Jimmy 'Jimbo' Wales (who had previously founded Wikipedia), and his then British business partner Angela Beesley Starling (now known as Angela Starling). Its original tagline was "Create. Collaborate. Be Original."
Wikia / Fandom uses a unique and heavily modified customized creation of the MediaWiki wiki engine software. It is visually different from conventional MediaWiki sites (such as Wikipedia), in that it has its own exclusive custom skin, and most notably, is embedded with a range and variety of graphic and dynamic advertisements. The fundamental business model of Wikia / Fandom is the offering of free hosting for an individual or community to build a free content wiki-based website, on virtually any subject. The downside is that hosted wiki sites are covered in a plethora of adverts, and those adverts may be inappropriate, or even contradictory or damaging to the content of individual wiki sites.