Fandom

Also known as Wikia, Wikicities, Farm:Wikia, fandom.com

wiki hosting service and domain

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Fandom is a website hosting service that allows fans to create and maintain wikis dedicated to movies, TV shows, video games, books, and other media properties. It matters because it provides a free platform where fan communities can collaboratively document and discuss the fictional worlds and characters they're passionate about.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Employees: 160
Official website: wikia.com
Image: Fandom (Wikia).png

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inception: 2004-10-18
Commons category: Fandom (website)
Alexa rank: 65
minimum age: 16
number of registered users/contributors: 28154471
date of official opening: 2004-00-00
terms of service URL: fandom.com/terms-of-use
privacy policy URL: fandom.com/privacy-policy
hashtag: Wikia
search formatter URL: www.fandom.com/?s=$1
social media followers: 18500
official jobs URL: about.fandom.com/careers
review score: 2.2

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Fandom (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia) is a media conglomerate backed by TPG, a private equity firm. The website offers a platform for hosting wiki pages with social media features on various topics such as video games, movies, books, and TV series. The company also owns several entertainment outlets such as GameSpot and TV Guide, multimedia databases such as GameFAQs, Metacritic and ComicVine, as well as online retailers such as Fanatical.

The privately held for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley Starling. Fandom was acquired in 2018 by TPG Inc. and Jon Miller through Integrated Media Co.