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In July 2012, Forbes highlighted the power of collaborative publishing noting that "Hollywood has increasingly seen the value in accessing the passion of Wikia’s ultimate fan audience..."
Furthermore, 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."
- Could sites like Wikia be the future of fandom?November 2012
- Flash Drives Replace Disks At Amazon, Facebook, June 2012
- Wikia.Com Launched Fellowship Dream Team Tournament NerdSpeak Media
- Look Out Reddit, Wikia Is On The Rise As Hollywood Turns To Community For The Dark Knight, Forbes
- Twilight's Final Comic-Con 2012: Kristen Stewart, Rob Pattinson, Taylor Lautner (Hosted by Wikia's Eric Moro), Examiner
- At Comic-Con, A Cousing of Wikipedia Tries to Expand Its Reach, New York Times
- 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
- 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
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