From 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/vi

From 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)