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Wikia acquires ArmchairGM

Posted by Angela Beesley on December 6, 2006 (Wiki, Wikia)

As leaked on TechCrunch, Wikia has acquired ArmchairGM! The sports site is running a heavily adapted MediaWiki and includes the traditional wiki features as well as blogs, easy commenting and voting functionality which allows the community to select the best content to automatically feature on the site’s home page. The site was created by Robert Lefkowitz, Aaron Wright, Dan Lewis and David Pean who we are really pleased to have joining Wikia. They seem to have a great sense of community which they’ve been able to apply to ArmchairGM. They’ve also developed some interesting features which we hope to integrate into some of our existing wikis. See the Head Scout page for example, which tracks the site activity (including votes, edits, and comments) in real time with no need to refresh. We’ll be releasing a related site very soon which will allow bloggers to make use of ArmChairGM content on their own sites.