Wetpaint is a company that provides social network service and wiki hosting service (or wiki farm). Wetpaint was founded in October 2005. Site URLs are often a subdomain of "wetpaint.com", but custom URLs are also available. Wetpaint targets non-technical internet users who want to collaborate online, and therefore attempts to include easy to use features, such as a three step wiki creation wizard. Wetpaint is free of charge and supported by contextual advertising. Established educational sites are ad-free upon request.
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In March 2008, Wetpaint added social networking features.
Company history
Pie is located in Seattle, Washington, USA and received its initial A round of venture capital funding of USD5.25 million from Trinity Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures in October 2005. Wetpaint closed a USD9.5 million 'B' round of funding in January 2007, adding Accel Partners to the list of investor. Incorporated in Delaware, Wetpaint was originally named Wikisphere.
Wetpaint was a sponsor of Wikimania 2006 and named by Time Magazine as one of the 50 Best Websites of 2007.
Notable Wetpaint partners include Fox Entertainment Group, HBO, Showtime, IGN, NY Giants, Houston Rockets, T-Mobile, HTC, Oracle Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Discovery Channel, and Lucas Arts.
Over one million wikis have been created on Wetpaint.
Permissioning
Wetpaint uses a simple permissions system to give various users different rights. Site administrators can set permissions levels for their entire site, individual pages, and individual users. For example, an administrator may restrict the editing of a page to registered users only; anonymous users who have not logged in and joined the site will not be able to edit the content.
The highest rank of any Wetpaint wiki is the creator. This is the person who originally created the wiki and has the right do anything they want. Directly beneath the creator are the administrators, who can do everything a creator can do except for demote the creator. Registered users of a site may be promoted to writers or moderators at the discretion of the administrators.
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