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World of Warcraft: The Magazine still coming later this year
by Alex Ziebart on Nov.16, 2009, under blizzard, blizzcon, blizzcon-2009, email, features, late-2009, magazine, official, pages, questions, release, subscription, twitter, updates, wow, wow-themagazine
A few readers have sent us notes asking what happened to their World of Warcraft: The Magazine subscription, and so here’s a quick followup to the magazine you might not have heard about since BlizzCon. As far as we know, it’s still on track for release in “late 2009″ — the website went live a while back, and they’re updating on Twitter. The first issue should almost be done, and it’s supposed to have a feature on the WoW TCG, something about Inscription, and memories of the game for the 5th anniversary, as well as lots of other stuff, we’re sure.
Additionally, even if you haven’t ordered a subscription yet (I haven’t, actually, but I meant to), there will be previews of the issue online at some point. Or, on the other hand, if you’re tired of waiting, you can contact them with support help and questions via email as well. But as far as we’ve heard, it’s still coming before the end of the year, so keep an eye on your mailbox. It’ll be a little different from some of the news you’ve seen online (it’s completely official, which means everything in there is approved by Blizzard before it goes out, not to mention that they’ll have some nice access in terms of news about upcoming content), but it definitely seems like it’ll be an interesting read.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Instances
World of Warcraft: The Magazine still coming later this year originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Wikia turns a profit, thanks in part to WoWWiki
by Alex Ziebart on Sep.11, 2009, under 70000, cooking-wiki, making-money, money, pages, profit, reports, twilight, user-generated-content, wall-street-journal, wiki, wikia, world-of-warcraft, wowwiki
Wikia has been doing a little bit of press lately — they’re the for-profit company that has spun off of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation that runs the huge Wikipedia website. Wikia has announced, as reported in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, that they’ve hit profit early. While they didn’t expect to actually make any money running ads next to user-generated content until next year, they’ve actually made some money this year already. They credit the growth of all of their miniwiki sites, which has expanded greatly over the last year.
So why are we reporting all of this here? You may have already guessed: one of their largest sites, if not the largest, is the World of Warcraft-related wiki, WoWWiki (which we definitely read and use here at WoW.com all the time). WoWWiki is mentioned in a few reports as having 70,000 pages (almost 1/3 more than the next-biggest site in the network, a cooking wiki). In fact, at least one reports credits WoWWiki, along with the Twilight-related wiki, for the growth entirely. We’re not sure how much of a part they actually played in the new reported profits, but they are definitely growing, and are a terrific resource for those of us in the WoW community.
Filed under: Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Lore, NPCs, Making money
Wikia turns a profit, thanks in part to WoWWiki originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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