Hi everyone! With the Fall season about to wrap-up, it's time for another update!

In October, a record 54,000 editors made a record 1.6 million edits to a record 3.1 million content articles! Do you sense a record breaking theme?! More than 26 million people visited Wikia, making it the 75th most popular website in the United States. Furthermore, Wikianswers skyrocketed from 50,000 questions in the last update to over 400,000 questions today. Wikianswers is now one of the five most-visited sites on Wikia. Have you seen it?

To make sure you know what's going on at Wikia, we created the Wikia Staff Blog and invited staff members from various positions to post updates. More to come, so be sure to check back on a regular basis. While we are working o(…)

• Use the magazine creator widget on the left to access the MagCloud toolbar. Just browse the wiki and add any articles you'd like in your magazine by clicking the “add” button.
• Rearrange your articles in the perfect order - Klingon weapons, favorite NASCAR drivers, best COD weapons or whatever you like!
• Design a cover, either by using our easy cover generator or uploading an image of your own.
• Then, publish your magazine directly to MagCloud. From there you can order as many copies as you like for you and your friends!

Magazine Creator is live for most English-language wikis that use the Monaco skin. As always, if you have any thoughts / questions, please leave a comment below!

Hi everyone,

This Wednesday, we are tentatively planning to release a new search for Wikia called Lucene Search. This is the search engine that Wikipedia has been using for quite some time, and provides a number of significant advantages:

• Short words are properly indexed (the old search ignored words with fewer than 4 letters).
• Numbers are indexed.
• "Common words" are indexed (words such as "from", "with", and "what" were previously ignored).
• Search is no longer case sensitive.
• Relevance should be dramatically improved--results are ranked by how the search terms are used within the page, number of incoming links to the page, and a number of other factors to provide the best possible results.
• Results display the rendered text of the pages rathe(…)

Hi everyone,

Today we are making a small change to our privacy policy, and wanted to take a moment to explain the changes.

Wikia, along with several of the ad networks that Wikia uses, uses cookies that are left on your computer to:

1. Track how many times you have seen a given ad: Many advertisers specify that they only want you to see a given ad one or two times per 24 hours. Sometimes Wikia sets similar restrictions to improve user experience as well.
2. Provide better-targeted ads: Some advertisers collect anonymous data to provide you with ads that might be more relevant to your interests. For example, I recently did a search on Google for "toshiba battery", and now I'm seeing more Google ads on Wikia for toshiba.com.

Neither Wikia nor any of i(…)

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to drop a quick note to let you know that we will be upgrading most of Wikia to MediaWiki 1.15.1 on Wednesday morning. Most users shouldn't see any significant changes with this upgrade, as most of the changes are bug-fixes or tweaks to existing features. You can view a full list of all of the changes here.

On Wednesday, August 26th, we plan to roll out MediaWiki 1.15.1 to every wiki on Wikia except for the following wikis, which will instead be upgraded to the new version on Monday, August 31st:

• answers.wikia.com
• aoc.wikia.com
• fallout.wikia.com
• gta.wikia.com
• guildwars.wikia.com
• lostpedia.wikia.com
• naruto.wikia.com
• runescape.wikia.com
• starwars.wikia.com
• starcraft.wikia.com
• tibia.wikia.com
• unanswers.wikia.com
• uncyclopedia.w(…)