Wikia Finds A Small Following And Some Profits

Are normal people finally starting to warm to wikis as publishing tools? Wikia , which hosts 50,000 enthusiast sites on the same wiki software as Wikipedia, is claiming profitability of sorts on strong growth. Over the past six months, Wikia sites (which also includes Wikianswers ) have increased unique visitors 76 percent in the U.S. to 6.5 million in July, 14.2 million worldwide (comScore). The orange line in the chart above is just Wikia.com, which had 5.9 million visitors in July, and the blue line is all Wikia sites combined. The company deadpooled its Wikia Search product last March. TechCrunch50 Conference 2009 : September 14-15, 2009, San Francisco