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 Wikia is a collection of over 7000 wikis (a [[WikiFarm]]) run by Wikia, Inc, founded by [[wikia:user:Jimbo_Wales|Jimmy Wales]], one of the founders of [[Wikipedia]], and [[Angela Beesley]] in October 2004.
-Wikia offers free {{tag|MediaWiki}} hosting for a community to build a free content wiki-based website.  Hosting is free but users have little say over  the advertisements their website displays.  Requests for new wikis which have the potential to appeal to a wide audience are welcomed. Support on both the technical and community aspects of running a wiki community is provided.
+Wikia offers free {{tag|MediaWiki}} hosting for a community to build a free content wiki-based website.  Hosting is free but users have little say over  the advertisements their website displays.  Requests for new wikis which have the potential to appeal to a wide audience are welcomed. Support on both the technical and community aspects of running a wiki community is provided.  Wikia janitors have [[sysop]] powers throughout Wikia help deal with vandals and spam on individual Wikis when needed.  Thiscan be helpfulfor controversial wikis like [[Liberapedia]] that attracts vandals.  The janitors also deter vandals though the extent of this can't be measured.  Wikia has a controversial Monarco skin which displays advertisements effectively.  Wikia claims Monarco encourages new users by making editing easier.  Logged in users don't have to see the advertisements unless they choose to.  [[User:Proxima Centauri|Proxima Centauri]] chooses to see advertisements on Wikia in order to see how a page looks to other users.
 In 2006, [[wikia:user:Gil|Gil Penchina]] became the CEO and hopes to take Wikia to a new level as he did with eBay.