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- Wikia Begins Next Growth Phase With Two Key Executive Hires, October 2011
- Wikia Community Wins Grimme Online Award, June 2011
- Wikia Vaults into Quantcast Top 50, June 2011
- Fans Shifting to Content with Deeper Engagement in 2010, December 2010
- Wikia Does Not Own Wikileaks Domain Names, December 2010
- "Wiki 2.0" Debuts at Digital Hollywood, November 2010
- Wikia Opens London Office and Hires European Sales Director to Meet Increased Demand From International Brand Marketers, August 2010
- Wikia Attracts Largest Gaming Audience on the Internet, March 2010
- Wikia Acquires Valuewiki and Calls on Financial Gurus to Join the Budding Investment Research Community, February 2010
- Wikia's Acquisition of Websitewiki Accelerates Goal of Organizing All Information in Europe, January 2010
- Mikhail Gorbachev and Jimmy Wales Call on the World to Rally Together in Wikia Green, December 2009
- Wikia Launches New French Question and Answer Service - Wikiresponses, November 2009
- HP Brings Magazine Publishing to Wikia Through New MagCloud Collaboration, October 2009
- Wikia expands into music category, October 2009
- Profitability and triple digit growth, September 2009
- Wikia re-launches Wikianswers, February 2009
Wikia in the NewsEdit
In June 2010, MediaPost's OMMA magazine included Wikia/Wikimedia as #3 on its list of "The 100 Most Important Online Publishers," highlighting that it is proof that "people could collaboratively produce valuable content . . . on a consumer publishing platform."
- Wikia's future lies in 'second screen' content Cnet
- Wikia Says It’s the Biggest Site Nobody — Including Its Millions of Readers — Has Ever Heard Of Allthingsd
- Men More Likely to Visit Wikia (survey) ZDNet
- Jimmy Wales on Engagement and Why the "Like" Button Isn't Enough Adweek
- Glee Wikia Trumpets TV Show, 'Engagement' Mediapost
- Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Takes Wiki Work Seriously USA Today
- Wikipedia Founder's Advice to Brands. Fast Company
- Wikipedia sister Wikia undergoes major redesign BBC Technology
- Jimmy Wales makes Wikia stickier with social revamp The Guardian
- Wikia Gets Easier, More Social Forbes.com
- Jimmy Wales to announce "wiki 2.0" ReadWriteWeb
- Wikia, site for user-generated topic pages, sees "explosion of growth" Venturebeat
- Wikipedia founder joins HP in magazine project Google.com Hosted News
- HP lets you print old books or Wikia pages as your own custom publications Venturebeat
- HP Bets on Print-on-demand Services PCWorld
- New HP service undigitizes books Good Morning Silicon Valley
- HP and Wikia to launch MagCloud Ubergizmo
- HP bets on paper books and magazines in digital age San Jose Business Journal
- Wikipedia Founder In HP Online Magazine Print Deal Reuters - NYT/International Herald Tribune
- Wikia expands into lyrics Venturebeat
- Wikia, which focuses on obsessions, turns a profit San Jose Mercury
- Wikia CEO claims profitability, 3x growth. Venturebeat
- Warcraft and Twilight fans make Wikia profitable. ReadWriteWeb
- Wikia Hits Profit Target Early Wall Street Journal