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Wikia continues the profitable thrust of Jimbo's first website, the porn engine Bomis.
Wikia continues the profitable thrust of Jimbo's first website, the porn engine Bomis.
Wikia is prone to vandalism. Ownz0r3d!
Wikia is prone to vandalism. Ownz0r3d!

Wikia is the for-profit tentacle of Jimbo's TOW octopus. He uses it to make some cash on the side, mostly for hookers and blow. The whole reason for deletionism on Wikipedia is to feed this ad-ridden monster with some topics for Jimbo and Angie to get parasitic on and make more money. If it were not for deletionists DELETING EVERYTHING fucking stupid things like Wookiepedia or Hot Wheels Wikia would not even exist.

It was originally founded by him (Wikipedia aka Wikimedia Foundation prez) and Angela Beastly (Wikipedia vice-prez at the time) as Wikicities (y'know, cyberspace, an', like, y'got all these Wikicities floatin' roun' in cyberspace, an' people'll rilly wanna be in these Wikicities in cyberspace, join in, y'know, yeah, like, yeah, rilly suck em in!) in 2004. Super-sekrit market research on two or three wikipedophiles at Wikimania showed that people assumed Wikicities to be an information site for urban sex tourists. So Jimbo and Angie just cut four letters out of Wikipedia to emphasize the brand association they were relying on.

By 2006, a few people started to notice the anomaly of a well-known non-profit foundation having the same president and vice-president as the floundering and related for-profit they'd set up on the back of the same software and volunteers. Over desperate wailing and teeth-gnashing from Wikipedoes, they both tried to evade reality by stepping down, although Jimbo's chosen Wikipedia titles of Spiritual Leader and Chairman Emeritus heavily imply some kind of, aaaah, control? Angie also continues in gainful employment with the Wikimedia Foundation.

Some argue that the view from the basement they get by using Wikipedia means that everything Jimbo does should be trusted. This is pure bullshit, because Wikia makes a shitload of cash, with Wikipedia providing the free advertising.

Last Thursday, Wikia forced all of it's wikis to upgrade to the their new "skin", which basically means a huge advertisement jutting into the top of every page accompanied by a big fat Wikia logo. This was done, they claim, at the behest of their venture capitalists, but it drove at least one of their most popular wikis away.

Even better, the Jews at Wikia refused to set up a redirect without getting free advertising in exchange, and GreenRaeper gained everyone's respect by absolutely refusing to go along with the crap. Furries may well be everybody's lolcows, but they sure showed the way for Wikia wikis. Jimbo's thoughts on this loss of furfaggotry on his servers are unknown, but there's no doubt it caused a hissy fit.

Staff

Plan for cash

  • Create non-profit organization
  • Non-profit organization becomes e-famous
  • Start for-profit organization on the side and constantly beg for money for non-profit
  • Host lots of shit websites on for-profit with as many advertisements as you can squeeze on the page
  • Using said non-profit organization's e-fame to promote said shit websites
  • ????
  • PROFIT!

Search Engine Magnates

Jimmy and Angie made a bold play to become big search engine magnates off the backs of Wikia fucktards but trod carefully because they knew they had a conflict of interest the size of John Holmes' dong.

All turned out to be a massive failure but not before Jimbo had the chance to use it for date rape on Rachel Marsden (hey, I'll fly you to the moon on the Wikia-search jumbo jet if you just do that little thing for me).

How you can help

Show your support by adding the following to your Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Dramatica user page:

{{subst:Userbox|border-c=#007700|border-s=3|id-c=#FFFFFF|info-c=#9cc800|info-s=8| id=[[Image:Wikialogo.png|40px]]|info=This user enjoys [[Wikipedia:Vandalism|vandalising]] [[Wikia]] [[All your base are belong to us|for great justice]]}}

The Anus

Wikia Anus
Wikia Anus

At the beginning of 2008, Wikia announced the Anus. This is described as "a place where Wikipedia fiction articles that are too detailed for Wikipedia can be kept until they find a new home." The Anus has features like "Getting a Wikipedia Article into the Anus" and "Bringing Many Wikipedia Articles at Once". On Wikipedia, at WP:FICT, the use of this Wikia feature is suggested as a way to move articles out of Wikipedia: "Fictional material unsuited or too detailed for Wikipedia can be transwikied to the appropriate Wikia, such as Final Fantasy Wikia and Wookieepedia. Other sites, such as Gaming Wiki, may also accept material. Transwikied material should be edited to meet the guidelines of specific wikias; do not just copy and paste. The Wikia Anus is a staging area for transwikied material and a place for non-notable fictional material that does not have another home; the original Wikipedia versions will also be stored there.

According to John Doe, "This is a clear statement of affiliation between Wikia and Wikipedia. It explicitly establishes a mechanism by which Wikia directly benefits from its connection to Wikipedia. Enough of one to put Wikipedia's tax-exempt status at risk. When the same people are involved in the management of both a nonprofit and a profit making organization, US tax law prohibits the nonprofit from taking actions that directly benefit the profit-making organization. See IRS publication 1023, part V. --John Nagle (talk) 17:53, 1 January 2008 (UTC)"

Of course, if you try to argue this conflict of interest on TOW, you'll be accused of having your own conflicts of interest, plus making legal threats (which is forbidden) and being paranoid. Because you can't interfere with Jimbo Wales' bank accounts.

Good articles in Wikia?

There are some articles which are almost a little lulzy on Wikia sites. More typical is this unfunny patent nonsense on Encyclopedia Dramatica, and Wackypedia's take on Grawp. Most articles on Wikia sites are tragically unfunny, although a couple are useful if you don't want to read one of the crappy books the fans are on about (plot synopses of hated literature) or walked out on a shitty movie but still want to know how it ended.

List of Wikia wikis

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