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Wikia's Got A Truck Full of Servers -- 1,000 To Be Exact
- downer 19y agoI hope they can get over their PHP addiction.
- inovica 19y agoHow do they make money?
- breily 19y agoIt seems the only way would be ad support, but that seems very un-Wikipedia. However they make money, I just wonder how they expect to get developers to contribute to it when Wikia will be trying to make money off the developer's work. I know I wouldn't be eager to work on a project that somebody else will profit from.
- mechanical_fish 19y agoNever underestimate the bandwidth of that truck.
- pchristensen 19y agoFrom Jimmy Wales' talk at the Tools of Change conference (http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/toc/view/e_sess/13441 http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/toc/view/e_sess/13441) in June, here are some quick facts about Wikia: 1) a completely different company and organization from Wikipedia 2) it is for-profit and will be ad-supported. The deep content in each subject should provide a more profitable, targeted audience for advertising than general ads 3) revenue will be used to pay for computing, hardware, bandwidth, and development. All content is created for free by volunteers and will remain under open licenses. 4) Since quality web searches are becoming a commodity, they want to develop an open source search engine to give power back to content creators (from aggregators like search engines)