Jimmy Wales - What is Wikia?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/07/18/Wikipedia_Founder_Jimbo_Wales

Wikimedia founder Jimmy Wales discusses Wikia, his for-profit web-hosting service for wikis.

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Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales in conversation with Chris Shipley.

Best known for his major role in the founding of Wikipedia, Wales has changed the way we access information. Wales opened collaborative authorship software, called wiki, to the world's Internet users to create a web site with boundless encyclopedic information called Wikipedia. Recently, Wales rushed headlong into a battle against Google to fight for our attention with his launch of Search Wikia, emphasizing transparency and promising less spam. Wales talk about what's next on his agenda, his opinions on the politics of the Internet and his thoughts on the accuracy of Wikipedia posts. - The Commonwealth Club of California

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama) is the founder, board member and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates the Wikipedia project, and several other wiki projects, including Wiktionary and Wikinews. He is also the co-founder, along with Angela Beesley, of the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.

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[Gildyshowss]

Wikia IS HUGE PIECE OF TOTAL SHIT!Jimmy wales king pedo n his pervs aka slaves!Only censorship IS ON WIKIPEDIA AKA WIKIPEDOIA!WiKIPEDIA aka WIKIPEDOIA IS4WIKIPEDOS BOOKMARK WIKI-watch.de

[SUPERMARIOROCKSYES]

@Thespidey665 100% agreed!

[SUPERMARIOROCKSYES]

Wikia in one word: FUCK

[digerpaji]

wikia is a pretty good blog killer

[MrInhibitor]

Also overtime the whole fipping website got overrun by ads there were always at least 5 ads on every page sometimes there were even 7. I complained and they said. "The only ad you should be seeing is the big one on the top of the page." OH I was seeing it alright along with the two ads squezed on the right and the 3 on the bottom. Good thing I bearly go back there. There's only one wikia I want to go back to and only 4 that they still own I might consider only to get updates about what I'm into.

[Thespidey665]

what is Wikia? A fucking battleground.

[DerEchteGangsterFan1]

Wikia is a place to get a virus. Seriously you get Windows XP/Vista/7 Antivirus 2011 or 2012.

[MrInhibitor]

Yeah wikia used to be good once they changed the skin then went to totally bad. They actually are just as bad as here.

[UnknownFork]

Thumbs up if you think wikia sucks now because of the oasis skin