Wikia Overview
Wikia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley with a mission to enable communities to create, share and discover content on any topic in any language. Wikia's consumer publishing platform has enabled passionate communities to collaborate on everything from the latest video games, and tv series to eco-friendly living and the world's best chocolate chip recipes. With over 75,000 enthusiast...More»
Wikia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley with a mission to enable communities to create, share and discover content on any topic in any language. Wikia's consumer publishing platform has enabled passionate communities to collaborate on everything from the latest video games, and tv series to eco-friendly living and the world's best chocolate chip recipes. With over 75,000 enthusiast communities attracting more than 25 million visitors each month, Wikia is the largest user-generated media company and a top 100 web property.
Part of the free culture movement, Wikia content is released under a license and operates on the Open Source MediaWiki software. Wikia has offices in San Francisco, California and Poznań, Poland.«Less
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| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
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| 03/2006 | Series A | 4M | Unknown | |
| 12/2006 | Series B | 10M | Unknown |
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| Name: | Wikia |
| Product URL: | http://www.wikia.com/ |
| Date Launched: | 11/2004 |
| Description: | Wikia provides hosting and support for the creation and development of large community-focused wikis. They host many of the world's largest community-created wikis including WoWWiki.com and Memory-Alpha.org. 9000 wikis in 100 different languages are under development. |
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| Name: | LyricWiki |
| Product URL: | http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page |
| Description: | Lyric Wiki is a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song, from any artist, without being hammered by invasive ads. |
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They've got the experience and backing from Wikipedia |
tburger 07/10/2008 |
100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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