User talk:Jamespeter

Wikia covers a broad range of topics; most widely scoped community projects are accepted, with the exception of ideas that compete with the Wikimedia Foundation's projects, which the Wikia founders are heavily involved in. Wikia requires all content to be licensed under one of many free content licenses, such as the Creative Commons Attribution and Attribution-Sharealike licenses or the GNU Free Documentation License. In comparison with Wikipedia, Wikia hosts specialized wikis that offer more detailed content. Also, because Wikia is not an encyclopedia, certain subjects that have no real world notability for inclusion on Wikipedia may be acceptable on the respective Wikia wiki. For example, a minor character in a certain video game may have its own article on Wikia but only a brief mention on Wikipedia.[11]

The project announced the creation of its one hundredth wiki on February 3, 2005.[12] As of July 2007, it had over 3,000 wikis in over 50 languages.[13]

As of February, 2008, its Alexa traffic ranking was about 400[14] (Uncyclopedia, Memory Alpha and WoWWiki, three of their most popular wikis, are not included in this figure as they have separate domain names). The largest source of Wikia.com traffic is its hosting of Wookieepedia, the Star Wars fan information wiki, accounting for 17% of Wikia traffic as of May 2007.[15] The Wikia-hosted World of Warcraft Wiki gets even more traffic on a separate domain name.[16]

Some domain names that are not included in the wikia.com figure stem from wikis that were founded separately from Wikia and incorporated into Wikia later. In the case of GuildWiki, this incorporation involved Wikia paying money and/or stock options to the previous owner of the domain name used for these wikis.[17]

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