Wikia, a San Mateo company that allows groups to share information about their interests with wiki technology, has raised a second round of funding — all of it coming from Amazon.com.

It is not clear how much traction Wikia company has gained. The company says more than two thousand wiki sites have been created on its platform, edited by 30,000 registered users. Wikia wants to users do everything outside of Wikipedia’s collaborative encyclopedia process.

Source: VentureBeat

Wiki’s offer a great opportunity to build unique communities. I’m sure this is a great opportunity for people to build communities. Wikis offer a great platform for New Media Producers to take part in building news based and community based information organization.

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