Category:Wetpaint: Difference between revisions

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'''Wetpaint''' <s>is</s> was a {{tag|Organization|company}} or [[wiki farm]] which offered free hosted [[wiki]] websites to anyone who wanted to create one.  The company's product offered visual ("WYSIWYG") editing and threaded comments, using its own unique {{tag|Wiki Engine|wiki engine}}.  It is financially supported by contextual {{tag|advertising}}.  Wetpaint wikis are editable, but the edit button is in near the top left, unlike [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] wikis.  Sites utilizing Wetpaint technology include [[wikiCancer]], [[wikiFido]], [[BobDylanwiki]], [[wikiGOP]], [[Independent Film Database]], [[Everything Wiki (Wetpaint)|Everything Wiki]], and a public testing site entitled [[wikiSandbox]].  Wetpaint licenses 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 license]] (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0). [https://web.Archive.org/web/20130801081611/http://WetpaintCentral.com/terms#7._SUBLICENSE_UNDER_CREATIVE_COMMONS_LICENSE]

The company – '''wetpaint.com, inc.''' – was located in {{tag|Seattle}}, Washington, and 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|FoundedIn2006|2006}}, and became publicly accessible in June 2006.  Wetpaint was named Best Wiki (Hosted) by the SEOmoz [http://web2.0awards.org Web 2.0 Awards].

Sometime during July [[:Category:FoundedIn2013|2013]], the entire collection of Wetpaint wikis 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 wikis would be transferred to the new <tt>WikiFoundry.com</tt> domain, continuing as a subdomain in the same format as Wetpaint – ie; <tt>wikiCancer.Wetpaint.com</tt> moved to <tt>wikiCancer.WikiFoundry.com</tt>.  Wetpaint hosted wiki redirects to WikiFoundry.com for a year.  From late [[:Category:FoundedIn2014|2014]], the Wetpaint wiki site, along with all wikis remaining on the Wetpaint.com domain were taken offline for good.

;External links

*[http://press.Wetpaint.com/page/More+Than+1%2C000%2C000+Free+Social+Websites+Created+To+Date+on+Wetpaint?t=anon one million wikis!] {{deadEL}}

*[[Archive.org:20060514193011/http://demo.com/demoletter/011372.html|Social software: Control the community or just let go?]] — DEMOletter, March 6, 2006 (via Archive.org)