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In late 2016, at the same time as the global rebrand from Wikia to Fandom, its parent company, Wikia, [[Cambridge-Dictionary:incorporated|Inc.]] also launched a non-profit sister site [https://Wikia.org Wikia.org].  '''Wikia.org''' also acts as a [[wiki farm]], and uses the identical custom-modified MediaWiki software as Wikia.com, but the most obvious difference is a lack of [[:Category:Advertising|advertising]].  Wiki sites hosted on Wikia.org continue to use the {{tag|Wiki Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike|Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license}} (CC-BY-SA 3.0), so whilst Wikia itself will not profit from hosting sites on Wikia.org, there is the potential to reuse content from Wikia.org on another external website (as is allowed under terms of the CC-BY-SA 3.0), and those external sites are able to monetise from said re-hosted Wikia.org content.
In late 2016, at the same time as the global rebrand from Wikia to Fandom, its parent company, Wikia, [[Cambridge-Dictionary:incorporated|Inc.]] also launched a non-profit sister site [https://Wikia.org Wikia.org].  '''Wikia.org''' also acts as a [[wiki farm]], and uses the identical custom-modified MediaWiki software as Wikia.com, but the most obvious difference is a lack of [[:Category:Advertising|advertising]].  Wiki sites hosted on Wikia.org continue to use the {{tag|Wiki Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike|Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license}} (CC-BY-SA 3.0), so whilst Wikia itself will not profit from hosting sites on Wikia.org, there is the potential to reuse content from Wikia.org on another external website (as is allowed under terms of the CC-BY-SA 3.0), and those external sites are able to monetise from said re-hosted Wikia.org content.


Retired November 2021.
Retired November 2021.<ref>[https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Wikia.org_domain_migration Help: Wikia.org domain migration]; ''community.fandom.com''; [[Wikia Community Central (en)]]; accessed 14 January 2023.</ref>


==Acquisitions==
==Acquisitions==