
By September 2006, Wikia had approximately 1,500 wikis in 48 languages. Nine months later, invested $10 million in Series B funding. In the month before the move, Wikia announced a US$4 million venture capital investment from Bessemer Venture Partners and First Round Capital. The name of the project was changed to Wikia on March 27, 2006. Wales' original idea was to use his Wikipedia idea for a place where people from the same city or other geographical place could come together. History 2004–2009: Early days and growthįandom was launched on October 18, 2004, at 23:50:49 (UTC) under the name Wikicities (which invited comparisons to Yahoo's GeoCities), by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, and Angela Beesley Starling-respectively chairman emeritus and advisory board member of the Wikimedia Foundation. Fandom wikis are hosted under the domain, which has become one of the top 50 most visited websites in the world, ranking the 47th most visited website in the world as of April 2023, according to Similarweb.

The company also runs the associated Fandom editorial project, offering pop-culture and gaming news. derives its income from advertising and sold content, publishing most user-provided text under copyleft licenses. įandom uses MediaWiki, the open-source wiki software used by Wikipedia. and Jon Miller through Integrated Media Co. The privately held, for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.).

Wiki created on June 2018 by AlphaOmega496. Hey! This wiki is a guide to all monsters from the Epics category of Monster Legends.
