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WIKIA’S ACQUISITION OF WEBSITEWIKI ACCELERATES GOAL OF ORGANIZING ALL INFORMATION IN EUROPE Largest European Internet Deal of 2010 Doubles Wikia’s German Audience

(DLD CONFERENCE) MUNICH, Germany, January 25, 2010 – Wikia, Inc. today announced the company’s largest German acquisition with the purchase of WebsiteWiki http://websitewiki.wikia.com making Wikia Germany profitable. WebsiteWiki, the largest wiki in the German language, and one of the five biggest wikis worldwide, offers the richest resource of information about the technologies and technical attributes of websites in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. With nearly 1.3 million pages of content, visitors to WebsiteWiki can access comprehensive information regularly updated by an active community focused on websites in these three countries.

“By bringing WebsiteWiki on board, we are expanding our existing international online resource communities which include Frag Wikia http://frag.wikia.com Wikiréponses http://reponses.wikia.com and WikiRiposte http://risposte.wikia.com ” said Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikia. “Wikis provide an ideal online forum for people to share their firsthand experiences and learn from each other, as we see people flock to our knowledge service sites. With WebsiteWiki’s dedicated community and rapid growth over the past two years, our goal is to make WebsiteWiki available in other languages to support more people around the world.”

“The acquisition of WebsiteWiki is a significant step for Wikia Germany,” said Tim Bartel, country manager of Wikia Germany. “With the integration complete, I’m pleased that we can offer readers and authors new functions to further improve and build upon their user experience and the existing content.”

About WebsiteWiki
WebsiteWiki was created in 2007, and attracts more than 14,000 editors. Visitors to WebsiteWiki can add an article about a website, collect information, categorize and add descriptions and comments. The technical information available to the community includes which web server or character set is used, or if the website uses frames, PHP or blogging software. A screenshot of the website is created automatically and is represented as a thumbnail to each article.

About Wikia
Wikia recently became one of the top 75 sites on the Internet according to Quantcast (http://www.quantcast.com/p-8bG6eLqkH6Avk), and was founded by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, as the place where millions of passionate people come to discover, create and share a shocking abundance of information on thousands of topics. Wikia’s community written sites range from video games, TV and movies to health and environmental sustainability. Wikia attracts more than nine million unique visitors in the U.S. per month to its 70,000 enthusiast communities and nearly three million pages of content.