Fast Chat: Craig Palmer
Wikia's new CEO on scaling the company, keeping up with the social Web
Wikia, the for-profit younger sibling of Wikipedia, is growing up. And it’s getting a new CEO to help it on its way.
Co-founded in 2004 by Wikipedia-founder Jimmy Wales, the community-created content site—which is particularly popular among entertainment and gaming fans—has more than 3 million registered, who have created about 14 million pages of content. This summer, a Nielsen study listed it among the top 10 social networks and blogs in the U.S., but among just two (LinkedIn was the other one) which boast a larger percentage of male visitors than the percentage of total active male users on the entire Internet.
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