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'''Wikia''', formerly '''Wikicities''', is now a collection of over 12,000 [[wiki]]s (a [[:Category:WikiFarm|WikiFarm]]) run by Wikia, Inc, and founded by [[wikia:user:Jimbo Wales|Jimmy Wales]], one of the founders of [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]], along with [[Angela Beesley]] in October 2004.  In 2006, [[wikia:user:Gil|Gil Penchina]] became the CEO, and hopes to take Wikia to a new level as he did with eBay.

[[Wikia]] is based on the {{tag|MediaWiki}} {{tag|Wiki Engine|wiki engine}}, but is different from regular MediaWiki sites in that it has its own {{tag|custom skin}} complete with embeded advertisements.  Wikia offers free hosting for a community to build a free content wiki-based website.  New wikis can be created instantly at http://create.wikia.com.  Hosting and 24-hour customer support is free, in return for advertising placed on the pages, but users have little say over the advertisements their website displays.  Support on both the technical and community aspects of running a wiki community is provided.  All Wikia wikis are released under only one [[:Category:Wiki License|Wiki License]] – the {{tag|Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike}} (CC-BY-SA).

Wikia staff and helpers have [[sysop]] powers throughout all Wikia wikis, as well as several types of automated detection and blocking tools to help deal with vandals and spam on individual wikis.  This can be helpful for controversial wikis like [[Liberapedia]] that attract vandals.

Users with new messages on ''any'' Wikia wiki they will get a note about the message on ''any other'' Wikia wiki where they have a window open.  If a user has different usernames for different Wikia wikis, then logging into a different account for one can change the account for all.