News archive

This page is for news about Wikicities including announcements and historical milestones. For regular news about recent changes to the wikis, see the Wikicities recent changes blog.

January 4, 2005: Wikicities' first milestone: 50 wikis
Just two months since the creation of the first Wikicity, the milestone of 50 existing wikis was reached in the first week of 2005. The 50th wiki was the Translation Wikicity.

December 15 2004: First mention in the press
Wikicities is mentioned in the press for the first time. An article about Extreme Blogging at forbes.com says:
 * So Wales has recently started two for-profit wiki companies. The first, Wikicities, lets users develop collaborative communities around cities, schools or other interests, such as sports teams, celebrities, etc. This is similar to Yahoo Groups (formerly Geocities), MSN Groups and the new Google Groups. Like Yahoo's Groups, Wikicities' revenue model is purely ad-based.

November 2: The first Wikicity is created
The first Wikicity to be created is Wikianswers, following a request from Hemanshu.

October 18, 2004: Wikicities launches
Jason installs MediaWiki at the new Wikicities.com domain name and moves Angela's first revision of the main page from its temporary location to http://www.wikicities.com/index.php/Main_Page.

October 8, 2004: Wikicities.com is registered
Jimmy Wales re-registers the Wikicities.com domain name. He had previously owned this in 2001, when it redirected to Nupedia, a predecessor to Wikipedia.