Community Central:About

Wikia are wiki communities creating free content with the MediaWiki software. These are hosted for free by Wikia, Inc., the company which runs the project. Anyone is free to start a new Wikia in accordance with the creation policy and terms of use.

Wikia was founded by Angela Beesley and Jimmy Wales, originally under the name "Wikicities", in October 2004. It celebrated its first birthday on November 2, 2005. Wikicities relaunched as "Wikia" in March 2006 (see the press release for details).

News about the site can be found at news and press releases. See also the reasons to use Wikia, what Wikia is not, and then explore or browse the site.

Copyrights
The text of all Wikia sites is freely licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Reusers of the content must retain it under the same licence, ensuring it remains free. Please read the text of the GNU Free Documentation License for full details of this licence. See also Designated agent.

Database download
The MySQL database of every Wikia is available for download under the terms of the GFDL.

Statistics
See the Statistics page for details.


 * The Special:Statistics page on every wiki provides basic data on the number of pages on each wiki.
 * Wikistats has details on the number of edits, pages, users, site visits, and more, for every active Wikia site.
 * Alexa has details on the traffic rank of Wikia sites compared to other sites (toolbars for IE and Mozilla browsers).

Existing Wikia
See list of Wikia for a full list of wikis hosted by Wikia, Inc.

Advertising
Wikia is an advertisement-supported service. See advertising for details on the advertising policies, and for details of how you can advertise here.

Wikia is not a Wikimedia project
Contrary to misunderstandings in the press, Wikia is not a Wikimedia project (read more). The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization which manages Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. It is not affiliated financially with Wikia. We encourage you to donate to Wikimedia projects in the current fundraising drive of the Wikimedia Foundation. Give the Gift of Knowledge and  donate  at wikimediafoundation.org.

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