Everybody’s heard of and uses Wikipedia, but what about the for-profit company founded by Wikipedia’s own Jimmy Wales? Wikia is one of the biggest internet companies around, but it’s likely not on ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

If you haven’t heard of Wikia, you’ve probably landed on one of its sites while googling something. In the same way that Wikipedia lets its community create and collaborate on content, Wikia does the ...

Search Wikia, a new search engine site, has launched publicly after two weeks of private testing. coverage). We spoke with Wales under embargo last week about his plans. This time, Search Wikia is a ...

Describing people who are into Star Wars or Marvel or Batman as “nerds” these days is a bit of a misnomer–you could just as easily call them “people who are into the most popular movies on the planet.

Anyone who’s anyone in the Fallout community knows Pawel “Ausir” Dembowski. Founder of The Vault wiki which contains over 15,000 pages of Fallout lore, Pawel is a human encyclopedia of gaming’s ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More What happens when you combine the Wiki model of open, collaborative ...

This morning, Wikia is rolling out cool features on the controversial Wikia Search engine (previous review). Starting today, if you do a search on the engine and don't like the results, you'll be able ...

A question of confusion has no simple answer, as shown by an argument over the names of wiki-based sites dedicated to providing answers to questions. Wikia Inc's "Wikianswers" site is ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' open source, human-powered Google killer died a quiet death Tuesday, making Wikia.com the latest object lesson in the futility of trying to unseat Google as the king of ...

Hold on to your compasses amateur cartographers, for there's an exciting new online tool at your disposal. Jimmy Wales' profit-making wiki-hosting service Wikia, sibling to the not-for-profit ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. The ...