Wikia, a wiki site for information on various topics written by a community of contributors, has completed Series B financing with a strategic investment from Amazon.com.


Wikia, a wiki site for information on various topics written by a community of contributors, has completed Series B financing with a strategic investment from Amazon.com.

Wikia received $4 million in Series A funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Omidyar Network and a select group of angel investors including Marc Andreessen, Josh Kopelman, Joichi Ito, Mitch Kapor, and Ron Conway, according to Amazon.

Wikia supports the development of open source software that runs Wikipedia, Wikia, and other wiki sites.

Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com, said: “Amazon has always believed in giving the customer as much information as possible so that they can make the purchase that’s best for them,

Over the years, we’ve enabled customers to post a wealth of information on our sites through features such as Customer Reviews, Customer Image Uploads, Wish Lists, Listmania and Discussion Boards. We want to support the continued growth of sites like Wikia, which has cracked the code for user-generated content”. [source]

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About Wikia

Wikia is a wiki site for information on thousands of topics written by a community of contributors. Since the site’s launch in November 2004, over 400,000 articles on 2,000 topics have been created and edited by over 30,000 registered users in 45 languages.

 

 

 

 

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