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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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Twisted Nether Wiki compiles a nice list of WoW utilities
by Alex Ziebart on Jul.02, 2009, under addons, be-imba, bluetrackers, bookmark, character-development, character-tracking, edit, edits, kalibans-loot-lists, list, resources, sites, tools, twisted-nether-wiki, utilities, web, wiki, wowbash
A few folks over at the Twisted Nether Wiki have done a great thing and compiled a nice full list of all of those little online WoW utilities that we talk about every once in a while. From character improvement tools like Be Imba! to resources like Kaliban’s Loot Lists and even humor sites like WoWBash, if it’s online, WoW-related, and worth visiting more than once, it’s on this list.
And of course it’s a wiki, so even if it’s not on that list, you can add it. But it is cool to have all of those resources in one place — we mention them, obviously, when there are updates to share, but if you don’t bookmark them when you hear about them, they might have fallen off your radar. There are so many great and well-designed tools out there for players to use that something like this, tracking them all, is great to have.
Filed under: How-tos, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, AddOns, Raiding
Twisted Nether Wiki compiles a nice list of WoW utilities originally appeared on WoW.com on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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