User blog:Sarah Manley/100,000 wikis on Wikia

Today Wikia is celebrating the creation of its 100,000th wiki community!

We have come a long way since Angela Beesley Starling and Jimmy Wales created us as 'Wikicities' in 2004. It has been an amazing journey, and Wikia now has communities on topics ranging from Sewing to Pop Tarts, Call of Duty to Farmville, and Glee to Geek Feminism.

A couple of significant milestones...
 * Wikianswers was our first wiki and started in the Fall of 2004. Wikianswers now has approximately 520,000 questions and 148,000 answers.
 * Wikicities already had 100 wikis in 2005, and when the popular wikis Uncyclopedia and Memory-Alpha decided to join us.
 * With nearly 1000 wikis in 2006, we changed name from Wikicities to Wikia.
 * WoWWiki, EQ2, and FFXIclopedia joined Wikia in 2007.
 * By Fall 2008, nearly 50,000 wiki communities and 1 million users called Wikia home.
 * During Fall 2009, LyricWiki, with almost a million song lyrics, joined Wikia.
 * As of April2010, we have ranked the 71st most popular website in the US (according to quantcast)

With nearly 300 wikis being created a day, Wikia is excited for many future recording breaking days. Thank you to all of our users, community admins, and founders for the amazing content they create and expand each day.