Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-20644-20141110180435/@comment-13301-20150104121505

Sorry, but no, it's not a wikia, because wikia is not even a word.

Every site being run with a wiki software (MediaWiki, tikiwiki, etc) is a wiki. If you want to specify what kind of wiki software runs, you can call it a MediaWiki wiki. If you want to specify what company hosts the wiki, you can call it a wikia wiki.

If wikia staff wants to call their wikis "wikias", that's up to them. But that doesn't change the fact that they are wikis (not wikias), powered by MediaWiki software, hosted by wikia.