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<big>'''Wetpaint'''</big> {{tag|Former wiki farm|was a wiki farm}} which offered free hosted [[wiki]] websites to anyone who wanted to create one.  Wetpaint's product offered visual (WYSIWYG) editing and threaded comments, using its own unique {{tag|wiki engine}}.  It was financially supported by contextual {{tag|advertising}}.  Wetpaint wiki sites were editable (obviously), but the [[edit]] button is in near the top left, unlike [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] wikis.  Wiki sites that utilised Wetpaint technology included [[wikiCancer]], [[wikiFido]], [[BobDylanwiki]], [[wikiGOP]], [[Independent Film Database]], [[Everything Wiki (Wetpaint)|Everything Wiki]], and a public testing site entitled [[wikiSandbox]].  Wetpaint licensed third-party use of the Collective Content and Submissions under a [[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike|Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 unported license]] (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).<ref>[[Archive.org:20130801081611/http://WetpaintCentral.com/terms#7._SUBLICENSE_UNDER_CREATIVE_COMMONS_LICENSE|Terms – 7. Sublicense under Creative Commons License]]; ''WetpaintCentral.com'' (via [[Archive.org]]); wetpaint.com, {{Cambridge-Dictionary|incorporated|inc.}}; dated 6 September 2010; accessed 25 September 2018.</ref>

The {{tag|wiki company}}, '''wetpaint.com, inc.''', was located in {{tag|Seattle}}, [[:Category:Washington|State of Washington]], United States of America.  It received its initial venture capital funding from [http://www.trinityventures.com Trinity Ventures] and [http://www.fraziertechnology.com Frazier Technology Ventures].

Wetpaint launched its private beta program in March {{tag|Founded in 2006|2006}}, and became publicly accessible in June 2006.  In March 2006, Wetpaint was named the winner of the 'Wikis (Hosted)' category by the [[SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards]].  The award stated: "Wetpaint promises to be a gorgeous wiki with easy to edit pages and a customizable look.  It's a community-oriented project that demonstrates a number of uses and great potential for growth."<ref>[[Archive.org:20060408205215/http://Web2.0Awards.org#Wikis (Hosted)|SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards – Wikis (Hosted)]]; ''Web2.0Awards.org'' (via [[Archive.org]]); SEOmoz; dated 28 March 2006; accessed 25 September 2018.</ref>

Sometime during July [[:Category:Founded in 2013|2013]], the entire collection of Wetpaint wiki sites were sold to a new company: {{tag|WikiFoundry|WikiFoundry, Inc.}}  Transition to this new company was scheduled for approximately one week, and all existing Wetpaint wiki sites would be transferred to the new <tt>WikiFoundry.com</tt> domain, continuing as a sub-domain in the same format as Wetpaint, ie; <tt>wikiCancer.Wetpaint.com</tt> moved to <tt>wikiCancer.WikiFoundry.com</tt>. Wetpaint hosted wiki site [[redirect]]s to WikiFoundry.com for one year. From late [[:Category:Founded in 2014|2014]], the Wetpaint wiki site, along with all wiki sites remaining on the Wetpaint.com domain were taken {{tag|Dead|offline}} for good.

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*[[Archive.org:20090905145059/http://Wetpaint.com|Wetpaint.com]] (via [[Archive.org]]) was the main site, but has now been taken over by a glossy fashion magazine blog

*[[Archive.org:20130106215107/http://wiki.Wetpaint.com|Everything Wiki]] — Wetpaints' WikiIndex-like wiki (via Archive.org)