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wikiaWikia is the new free Web-hosting site dedicated to giving growing wiki communities a place to share whatever they are passionate about. They currently support 4,700 communities in more than 70 languages and use open source MediaWiki software. What makes Wikia unique is that it allows all users to edit any Wikia web page for absolutely free – you don’t even need an account, although one is recommended. In short, hosting your wiki on Wikia saves users the time and technical know-how it takes to maintain a wiki site.

If having a wiki site wide open for free to the public sounds like you’re subjecting yourself to major problems, fear not. Wikia prides itself on having excellent spam control and cross-wiki vandal blocking allowing you to focus on content rather than correcting bad edits. Wikia also boasts of having Youtube integration, notifications via email, the use of calendars on the page, and parser function. If that wasn’t enough, Wikia also offers skins for a more customized look, widgets, and the ability to import images from Flickr. You can also automatically publish your articles to blogosphere.

What the Wikia site lacks in flare it certainly makes up for in usability. I have never been to a site this easy to navigate. With so many features and a seamless and easy to use interface all for free, Wikia claims to be the best place to start a wiki site and in my opinion it’s true. It will be interesting to see how quickly Wikia takes off when they officially launch on Jan 7th.

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