Community Central talk:About

Founded in...
Is it correct that Wikia was founded in October 2003? I thought it was October 2004? --Spankart 20:45, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I am quite sure it was 2004, so I have updated the page. -- JamesTeterenko 22:53, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, definitely 2004. I've no idea why I wrote 2003. Angela (talk) 21:02, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Statistics
To justify my qualification of Angela's recent reversion, I produce the two lines that were at the top when I clicked on that stats link a few minutes ago:

Wikia Statistics Wednesday December 28, 2005

I'm a little wistful, but too respectful to complain. Others who see the unqualified "weekly" claim have a right to complain that it is "not true". We don't want to lose them.

Robin Patterson 03:09, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Rewriting history
Okay, I accept that Wikicities is now Wikia, although I have yet to read an explanation of why the name was changed. It's a little creepy to read all the statements about Wikia (e.g., date of founding) that are clearly referring to the Wikicities incarnation. Perhaps some explanation of the name change would be in order in this article? - dcljr 03:42, 20 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for pointing that out. I've added a note about the name change with a link to the press release explaining it. Angela (talk) 09:05, 20 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Hmm... "explaining" is a strong word for it. It mentions the name change, I'll give you that, but it doesn't explain it at all. I've since found the more informative Talk:Wikicities relaunches as Wikia. - dcljr 08:14, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Page "About Wikia"
Où puis-je trouver cette page en français ?


 * Je suis désolé, mais nous n'avons pas cette page en français encore. Egon 19:08, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation
Hi, is there any way we could get an ogg file of the pronunciation? A la Wikipedia? As, I've heard it pronounced both "wik-ee-a" and "wiki-a". 82.16.7.63 11:47, 31 March 2007 (UTC)


 * There is no official pronunciation. Neither of those are wrong, but there are also other ways of saying it which are equally correct. Angela (talk) 13:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

M.Motumbo
Bonjour, je suis extremement impressionné par l'histoire de M.Motumbo. Ce Monsieur est trés beau et j'aimerais savoir s'il a un SITE INTERNET...

Merci de votre attention,

Antonov

Wikipedia Affiliation
At a corporate level, there is none, right? Before I get expunged, is my new article OK with your policy? Nukeh 12:57, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Is Wikia a for-profit organization?
Do I understand correctly that Wiki – in contrast to WikiPedia – is a regular and for-profit organization and not a foundation? This would be a pity... Does this then mean that users will be confronted with ads, sponsored links etc. soon? --Chasimir 20:01, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, Wikia is for-profit. And, it already has ads. Congratulations on being blind if you couldn't see them in the 3+ clicks it took you to get to this page. -- Skiz zerz  20:11, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, that is exactly the problem: content and ads are mixed in such a way that users can't distinguish between them anymore. I hoped Wikia would offer an alternative here. Thanks for the compliments... --Chasimir 08:44, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Please keep stats fairly up-to-date for promotional purposes
I'm busy promoting Wikia on Squidoo and want to be impressive while remaining accurate. "About" currently says "We currently support over 6000 communities in more than 70 languages". Can I ask that someone update that, and confirm whether I can accurately say "over 9000 communities in more than 110 languages"? — Robin Patterson (Talk) 06:36, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


 * We don't currently have any way of automatically updating that number. Since it now goes out of date so quickly, I think my advice would be to stop saying the number of wikis we have. Angela (talk) 05:19, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Or perhaps say we have thousands of wikis (right now the number is over 13,000). BillK  (talk ) 05:45, 24 March 2009 (UTC)