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'''Wikia'''<ref>http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia</ref> (formerly '''Wikicities''' and currently known as Fandom <ref>http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Wikicities - see the URL</ref>) is a [[wiki farm]] founded and formerly run by Wikipedia co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]] and Wikimedia Foundation board member Angela Beesley.<ref>http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/wikia_adds_new_.html</ref>  It has raised millions in investments and used to enjoy preferential treatment by Wikipedia.<ref>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/28/wikipedia-special-treatment-for-wikia-and-other-wikis/</ref> At one point Wikia was slowly declining, to where many wikis were abandoned and received few edits. Over the years Wikia has improved through its reasonable policies without being too strict or overly micromanaging, like Wikipedia is. Presently, in many ways, it is preferable than [[Wikipedia]], but with some drawbacks. It has changed its domain to fandom.com as of early 2019. However, Fandom's TOU was updated recently to ban "deadnaming" (ie, giving the original birth-given name of) people suffering from gender confusion (called trans people on the site), as well as banning across the entire Fandom network even long-standing editors if they disagree with gender confusion being promoted.

'''Wikia''' (formerly '''Wikicities''' and rebranded to '''Fandom''' since 2019) is a [[wiki farm]] founded and formerly run by Wikipedia co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]] and Wikimedia Foundation board member Angela Beesley.<ref>http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/wikia_adds_new_.html</ref>  It has raised millions in investments and used to enjoy preferential treatment by Wikipedia.<ref>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/28/wikipedia-special-treatment-for-wikia-and-other-wikis/</ref> At one point Wikia was slowly declining, to where many wikis were abandoned and received few edits.

 

As of early 2019, Wikia entirely rebranded to Fandom, and their url was updated to fandom.com. Around the same time, the company acquired Curse LLC and their services, one of them notably being another wiki host, Gamepedia.

 

In 2021, Fandom's TOU was updated recently to ban "deadnaming" (i.e., referring to someone the original birth-given name of) people suffering from [[gender confusion]] (i.e. [[transgender]]s), and blocking anyone who dares to refer to someone by their birth gender.<ref>https://archive.ph/sW0ll</ref>

== Wikis ==

== Wikis ==

==Advantages over Wikipedia==

==Advantages over Wikipedia==

* Upload images of their own or from somewhere else without having to through the difficult process of obtaining permission to use many of the images.

* Upload images of their own or from somewhere else without having to through the difficult process of obtaining permission to use many of the images,

* Can create blogs on whatever topic as they please (depending on the policies of each wiki).

* Can create blogs on whatever topic as they please (depending on the policies of each wiki)  

* Helpful contributions to articles (depending on the wiki) are not automatically reverted.

* Has a [[WYSIWYG]] layout, making it easier for beginners to use, as well as the traditional "source editor."

* Helpful contributions to articles (depending on the wiki) are not automatically reverted  

* Much simpler for the average man to edit on Wikia without facing harsh penalties

* Censorship on Wikia and certain wikis, especially if one creates their own is considerably low.  

== References ==

== References ==