User blog comment:Kirkburn/VisualEditor - the past, present and future/@comment-24944675-20140703084957/@comment-13918697-20140704005713

I plan to use Wikia for my students and one of the goals of this activity is to "produce Wikipedia contributors "

Just in case:  Wikia is not Wikipedia. The only similarity between them is the first four letters of their names.

Wikia (formerly Wikicities) is a free web hosting service and a wiki farm for wikis. It is normally free of charge for readers and editors, deriving most of its income from advertising, and publishes all user-provided text under copyleft licenses. Its operator, Wikia, Inc., is a for-profit Delaware company.

Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free-access, free content Internet encyclopedia that is supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

Creating a brand new wiki on Wikia just for your project may be what you intend to do. But if you're thinking about the student projects highlighted in the following article, I think that using Wikia may not be the ideal assignment you're aiming for.

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-wikipedia-20140615-story.html#page=1