The secret location of Wikia headquarters Options Rating

[thekohser]

What is up with this edit by Angela Beesley?

The exact location is private information that has no place in an article. 2nd Ave S is not an office address and Wikia never owned an office in Menlo Park. The move to San Mateo was approximately November 2006, but please don't use this talk page as a source. If that's not been written elsewhere, it shouldn't be added to the article. [[User:Angela|Angela]][[user talk:Angela|.]] 04:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Is it customary for private companies with about $14 million in investment round capital to keep "private" their office location? This is really bizarre.

And, from the Wikia "About Wikia" page:

Wikia is operated by Wikia, Inc. Wikia has offices in San Mateo and New York in the US, and in Poznań in Poland. Remote staff are located in Chile, England, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and also in other locations in Poland and the US. Wikia's staff have over 60 years Wikipedia experience among them! Wikia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley in 2004. The company is incorporated in Delaware. Gil Penchina became Wikia's CEO in June 2006, at the same time the company moved its headquarters from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Menlo Park and later to San Mateo in California. A new office was launched in Poznan, Poland in September 2006 and Wikia moved out of St. Petersburg at the end of 2006. The New York office opened when Wikia acquired ArmchairGM in December 2006. Wikia has received two rounds of investment; in March 2006 from Bessemer Venture Partners and in December 2006 from Amazon.com.

They really don't give you an easy way to mail them a legal notice, do they?

Google Maps says they are at:

60 E 3rd Ave
San Mateo, CA 94401

(650) 548-0400

And the Street View feature of Google Maps says that the Wikia headquarters is approximately here:



Do they seriously have office space above an antique shop? Google's Street View may be off a tad... could be the office space above the shop to the northeast.

Anyway, it's just more wikisecrecy, which makes the curious even more likely to "wikisleuth" what's going on.

P.S. Notice that Wikia trumpets, "Wikia's staff have over 60 years Wikipedia experience among them!" But, remember everyone, Wikia and Wikipedia are independent and not related! Also remember that Jimmy Wales advised me by e-mail from a Wikia.com address that Wikipedia Review.com was not entitled to use the word "Wikipedia" in our advertising communications. It's just too, too funny!

Greg

[Cedric]

Actually, there are a lot of valid addresses that Google and Yahoo have yet to enter into their database. I encounter this problem a lot when looking up directions to a local business I haven't been to before. You basically work from a known address nearby to find what you want. In this case, I used the St Regis Tower, to work out that 300 Third Street must be here, right across the street from the Moscone Center. On Google, it was even easier. Note that the building appearing at the bottom and toward the right on this map has the number 304. That pretty much cinches it.