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'''Wikia''', currently branded as '''Fandom''', and originally known as '''Wikicities''', is a {{tag|Wiki farm|collection}} of over 250,000<ref name=About>[https://about.Fandom.com/about Fandom {{!}} About Us]; ''about.Fandom.com''; Wikia, Inc.; {{tag|San Francisco}}, [[:Category:California|CA]] 94107, [[:Category:United States of America|U.S.A.]]; accessed 25 October 2021.</ref> [[wiki]] sites.  Known as a '[[wiki farm]]', it is owned by its parent company '''[[WikiaSite:community:Community Central:Wikia, Inc.|Wikia, Inc.]]'''<ref name=Terms>[http://www.Wikia.com/Terms_of_Use Terms of Use | Fandom powered by Wikia]; ''www.Wikia.com''; Wikia, Inc.; dated 22 May 2018; accessed 25 September 2018.</ref>  [[Wikicities]] was founded in October {{tag|Founded in 2004|2004}} by [[:Category:American|American]] internet entrepreneur [[Jimmy Wales|Jimmy 'Jimbo' Wales]] (who had previously founded [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]), and his then [[:Category:British|British]] business partner [[Angela Beesley Starling]] (now known as Angela Starling).<ref name=About/>  Its original tagline was ''"Create. Collaborate. Be Original."''  In 2006, [[WikiaSite:community:User:Gil|Gil Penchina]] became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and hoped to take Wikia to a new level as he did with [[:Category:eBay|eBay]].  In late 2011, [[Craig L. Palmer]] was appointed as new Wikia CEO.<ref>[[WikiaSite:community:Forum:Craig Palmer, new CEO of Wikia|Craig Palmer, new CEO of Wikia]]; ''community.Wikia.com''; Wikia, Inc.; accessed DD Mmmm YYYY.</ref>  In late 2016, the entire Wikia site was rebranded from 'Wikia' to 'Fandom',<ref>[http://community.Wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Craiglpalmer/Wikia_is_now_Fandom_powered_by_Wikia User blog:Craiglpalmer / Wikia is now Fandom powered by Wikia]; ''community.Wikia.com''; Wikia, Inc.; accessed 26 May 2018.</ref> and also launched the non-profit sister site [https://Wikia.org Wikia.org].  As of October 2021, the current Fandom CEO is [[Perkins Miller]].<ref name=About/>

'''Wikia, Inc.''' is a {{tag|Wiki company|company}} registered in the {{tag|Delaware|State of Delaware}}, [[:Category:United States of America|United States of America]] (corporate number C2935209).  Its registered office is at 360 3rd Street, Suite 750, {{tag|San Francisco|San Francisco County}}, [[:Category:California|State of California]] 94107, United States of America.<ref name=Terms/>

The overwhelming vast majority of Wikia wiki sites are currently released under one primary [[:Category:Wiki license|wiki license]]: the {{tag|Wiki Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike|Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license}} (CC-BY-SA 3.0), as explained [[WikiaSite:community:Community Central:Licensing|here]].  However, other licenses are available on Wikia; these include the [[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial|Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial]] (CC-BY-NC), as used by [[Memory Alpha]], and the [[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works|Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative Works 3.0 unported]] (CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0) licenses.<ref name=Licensing>[http://www.Wikia.com/Licensing Licensing {{!}} Fandom powered by Wikia]; ''Wikia.com''; Wikia, Inc.; accessed 25 September 2018.</ref>

The entire Wikia project consisting of all Wikia wiki sites used to be available as a globally combined backup file [https://S3.AmazonAWS.com/wikia_xml_dumps/w/wi/wikiaglobal/pages_full.xml.gz here] .  Individual Wikia wiki sites may also backed up, and their backup files are available near the bottom of their relevant <tt>/Special:Statistics</tt> page, as explained [[WikiaSite:community:Help:Database download|here]].  However, whilst all Wikia wiki sites have a Statistics page, complete with the 'Database dumps' section containing appropriate placement for their backup file links, those Wikia wiki sites which show 'unknown' for where the actual URLs are expected definitely have <u>not</u> been backed up!  Local administrators do have the option to request a new, or updated dump.  The reality is that a vast proportion of Wikia sites do not have individual dumps available, and for those sites that do have live URLs to their backup files, they are invariably outdated, typically by many months, though some are outdated by many years (mid-2017 is frequently found to be the last time any backup was created, as of July 2021).  Originally managed internally by Wikia and found at <tt>WikiStats.Wikia.com</tt> or <tt>Dumps.Wikia.net</tt>, as of 2018, Wikia backups are provided by [https://AWS.Amazon.com/s3/ Amazon S3] from [https://AWS.Amazon.com Amazon Web Services, Inc.] (AWS).

*[[GreenReaper]] used to produce some very interesting and geeky [[Archive.org:20210729120758/https://GreenReaper.co.uk/stats/wikia/wikia.php|##Wikia IRC statistics generated by GreenReaper]], last updated 2013;

*[[Wikistatistics.net]] used to produce graphical [[Archive.org:20160220134326/https://www.Wikistatistics.net/wikia|Wikia Interactive Statistics]], last available 2016;

*{{U|mutante}}, creator of WikiStats by [[S23-Wiki|S23.org]], has a tabular list of Wikia wiki sites (previously at [[Archive.org:20180618144502/https://S23.org/wikistats/wikia_html.php|list of top 250 Wikias]]), currently found at [https://WikiStats.WMCloud.org/display.php?t=wi 410,703 Wikia sites].

The exact date of founding of individual Wikia wikis used to be at <code>/Special:WikiStats</code>.  Alternative methods to age a Wikia site can be sought at <code>/Special:AncientPages</code>, or by examining the earliest edit version of revision history of its [[Wiki main page|main page]] at <code>/Main_Page?dir=prev&action=history</code>.  The latter example will also be a good place to determine the [[founder]] of the individual Wikia site.

Unlike other {{tag|wiki farm}}s, Wikia will generally <u>not</u> [[:Category:Dead|close]] a wiki site if requested by the wikis' creator / [[founder]], and / or community of [[editor]]s.  Wikia prefer to maintain inactive and [[:Category:Goal abandoned|abandoned]] wiki sites in a [[:Category:Dormant|dormant]] state, and actively seek other [[Wikian]]s to '[https://Community.Fandom.com/wiki/Adoption:Requests adopt]' said wiki sites.  This will happen even when former wiki [[owner]]s copy or '[[fork]]' their entire wiki project and [[:Category:Ex-Wikia|re-host]] it on another provider or [[wiki farm]].  Wikia wikis are only usually [[:Category:Dead|closed]] in exceptional circumstances, typically if the content or intent of the wiki breaches Wikias' [[Wikia:Community:Community Central:Closed Wikis|terms of service]].<ref name=Community>[http://www.Wikia.com/Community_Creation_Policy Community Creation Policy | Fandom powered by Wikia]; ''www.Wikia.com''; Wikia, Inc.; accessed 25 September 2018.</ref>

For those registered [[:Category:Wikia people|Wikia users]] having problems logging into Wikia, a solution is to disable scripts from Wikia, then clicking on the 'sign in' link which will send you to [[Wikia:Special:UserLogin|sign-in webpage]].

When Wikia was originally founded (as Wikicities), it used '{{tag|Monobook}}' as its default [[:Category:Skins|skin]]; identical to the [[:Category:MediaWiki skin|MediaWiki skin]] that [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] (and all related [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] wiki sites) then used at that time.  Subsequently, Wikia developed their own unique [[:Category:Custom skin|customised skins]], with an emphasis on accommodating various in-wiki on-screen [[:Category:Advertising|adverts]].

Following this change of skin, previously,{{When}} registered [[user]]s of Wikia who understood how to use their wiki preferences could choose which [[:Category:Wikia skin|skin]] they used.  This option was however, subsequently changed, so not even registered users are able to change the skin on their <u>own</u> wiki site.

*[[Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance]]

*[[Square Enix Independent Wiki Alliance]]

*[[Gaming Wiki Network]]

*{{Wikidata|Q17459|Fandom (Q17459)}} — at [[Wikimedia Wikidata]]

*{{Wikidata|Q20466202|Fandom, Inc. (Q20466202)}} — at Wikimedia Wikidata

*{{Wp|Wikia}} — at the [[English Wikipedia]]

*{{Wn|Potential Wikia mass exodus}} — at the [[English Wikinews]], Friday 1 August 2008

*[https://archive.is/P6YVo Web Numbr - Number of active wikis on Wikia (377,007)] — from [[Wikia Answers|Wikianswers]], via WebNumbr.com, archived by [[archive.is]] on 2013-11-05

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