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A source who has seen Wikia's numbers says the company is experiencing "a hemorrhaging of cash circa 1999" — losses, in other words, like the first generation of dotcoms.


Everybody's doing layoffs these days, but venture capital is becoming scarce....It's probably not a good sign.

Jimbo really needs to have some professional stills done by a good photographer and ditch these candid shots. The one on this article is particularly bad.
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El Reg provokes a response - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/21/wikia_layoffs/. Obviously someone thinks they're a "reliable source".

Less than 10% sacked is now the claim. That would be 4 people, then.

I'd like to work out which heads are rolling, but I can't get the page at http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Staff to load. Probably just a network hiccup, I'm sure...
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QUOTE(UseOnceAndDestroy @ Tue 21st October 2008, 11:52am) *

El Reg provokes a response - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/21/wikia_layoffs/. Obviously someone thinks they're a "reliable source".

Less than 10% sacked is now the claim. That would be 4 people, then.

I'd like to work out which heads are rolling, but I can't get the page at http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Staff to load. Probably just a network hiccup, I'm sure...

Cade Metz is just beautiful: "Sad news for Jimbo Wales: He may not get that personal jet." (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/biggrin.gif) The wikia staff-page loads fine for me- Is the whole technical team located in Poland?
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the fieryangel   Wikia meltdown: layoffs  
One   Offices in San Francisco and New York--and Poland...  
Krimpet   Offices in San Francisco and New York--and Poland...  
EricBarbour   (I can't fathom at all why the Foundation dec...  
Piperdown   (I can't fathom at all why the Foundation de...  
Somey   Hmm... I guess this might explain their recent dec...  
GlassBeadGame   Hmm... I guess this might explain their recent de...  
UseOnceAndDestroy   Wikia "communities" would be well advise...  
everyking   Wikia "communities" would be well advis...  
Crestatus   Sometimes, the "prestige" of a city is m...  
Alison   Sometimes, the "prestige" of a city is ...  
UseOnceAndDestroy   Jimbo really needs to have some professional stil...  
Milton Roe   Jimbo really needs to have some professional sti...  
Somey   Somey: Wikia does have a business plan, as they ru...  
dogbiscuit   I didn't say they didn't have a business ...  
anthony   Somey: Wikia does have a business plan, as they r...  
GlassBeadGame   That quote explains the real business plan. ...  
dogbiscuit   As an old colleague of mind used to say (amusingl...  
Krimpet   We already saw the rise and fall of dozens of adve...  
tarantino   Perhaps their investors were browsing Wikia, and a...  
the fieryangel   Check out the comments on the CNET Article : 1. ...  
sarcasticidealist   1. Greg Kohser 2. Jimbo 3. Rachel Marsden, who win...  
cyofee   Looks like another source is rapidly descending fr...  
UseOnceAndDestroy   Looks like another source is rapidly descending f...  
GlassBeadGame   "recently let go less than 10% of its salari...  
Milton Roe   [quote name='UseOnceAndDestroy' post='137286' dat...  
anthony   [quote name='UseOnceAndDestroy' post='137286' da...  
GlassBeadGame   "Well, just a second there, professor. We,...  
Milton Roe   [quote name='anthony' post='137381' date='Tue 21s...  
dogbiscuit   If it is all venture funding, they may take a look...  
cyofee   The Marsden account may be a troll, but Jimbo...  
sarcasticidealist   The Marsden account may be a troll, but Jimbo...  
The Joy   Are all their technical staff Polish? :huh:  
GlassBeadGame   Are all their technical staff Polish? :huh: Ma...  
Unrepentant Vandal   Are all their technical staff Polish? :huh: M...  
maiawatatos   Cost of living in poland is fantastically low thou...  
The Wales Hunter   Given Green Wikia was launched with something of a...  
UseOnceAndDestroy   Given Green Wikia was launched with something of ...  
EricBarbour   That crap has been pulled by Silicon Valley comp...  
Milton Roe   [b] That crap has been pulled by Silicon Valley ...  
cyofee   Looks like all the interesting comments on the CNE...  
UseOnceAndDestroy   One step further up the wikipedian ladder of relib...  
the fieryangel   One step further up the wikipedian ladder of reli...  
dogbiscuit   It seems that the 10% figure has been confirmed (...  
Somey   Traffic numbers for the search engine seem to be h...  
flash   Today is supposed to be the Big Day when Uncyclop...  
Emperor   Classic Jimbo, changing the rules in the middle of...  


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