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Wikidot Inc. is a Polish wiki hosting corporation which owns, operates and supports the community of wiki-based web projects at Wikidot.com, a social networking service and wiki hosting service (or wiki farm), developed in Toruń, Poland. Wikidot.com was launched on August 1, 2006 and in 2009 it was the world's third-largest wiki farm,〔 with 570,000 users running 150,000 sites with 5.6 million pages of user-created content (as of September 24, 2010). Wikidot.com grows by about 900-1,000 new users each day. Wikidot.com roughly doubled in size during 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wikidot Stats Archive )〕 Following their migration to Amazon Web Services in September 2012, Wikidot became a finalist and first prize winner in the AWS Global Start-Up Challenge of 2012 under the category of Consumer Applications.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wikidot wins First Prize at AWS Global Startup Challenge 2012! )〕 Wikidot Inc. released Wikidot.org in January 2008, the official FOSS version of the Wikidot.com software project with an Ajax-based interface.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wikidot.org/start )〕 It is meant as a stable and free software for a single Wiki install or a Wiki farm on a GNU/Linux computer. The FOSS Wikidot.org software is licensed under the AGPL v3. There are Debian/Ubuntu ( *.deb) packages for the free Wikidot.org software, which are considered experimental, as of October 2011, and may break existing Wikidot installations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wikidot.org/debian-packages )〕 Wikidot Inc. is incorporated in Delaware, USA, Division of Corporations, file no. 4326793. ==Company history== Wikidot.com is owned and operated by Wikidot Inc., incorporated in Delaware, USA in 2007 by Wikidot.com founder Michał Frąckowiak and a group of private investors. Wikdot.com was developed in Poland and was published as open source in January 2008. Wikidot Inc. derives revenue from opt-in advertising and services including support licenses. The company's operational offices are located in Toruń, Poland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About us )〕 The officers of the company were Pieter Hintjens (CEO) and Michał Frąckowiak, who is also a General Manager of Polish operating office. Pieter Hintjens is CEO of iMatix Corporation, past President of the FFII, and has been active in the free and open source software field since 1991. Michał Frąckowiak is a former astrophysicist, certified software developer and the architect and lead developer of the Wikidot.com project since 2006.〔 However, as of February 26, 2010, Pieter leaves the CEO position in Wikidot to continue his work in iMatix〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Big Cheese Moves )〕 Wikidot has been consistently placed in the top 10,000 web sites by Alexa since the beginning of 2008, and is currently ranked in the top 4,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alexa statistics data for Wikidot )〕 From March 2008, Wikidot.com began offering pro account features to beta testers, and on December 17, 2008, Wikidot.com rolled out Pro accounts to all users.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Michał Frąckowiak: Pro accounts and a few ideas )〕 Starting with January 2011 Wikidot.com began offering multilingual model on an experimental wiki-basis, by inviting the world-wide community to translate most used commands, help-text and other literals from English to "every wished" language. After a week some languages like German, French and Serbian were translated 100% by the community, and Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Finnish, Italian are following now and growing in their completeness. This is now on a site basis and planned for the future is user-based translation so that whoever wants to build a wiki in a special language can do so, even in Klingon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wikidot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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