Category:Wetpaint

Wetpaint is was a or wiki farm which offered free hosted wiki websites to anyone who wants to create one. The company's product offers visual ("WYSIWYG") editing and threaded comments, using its own unique. It is financially supported by contextual . Sites utilizing Wetpaint technology include wikiCancer, wikiFido, BobDylanwiki, wikiGOP, Independent Film Wiki, Everything Wiki and a public testing site entitled wikiSandbox. Wetpaint wikis are editable, but the edit button is in near the top left, unlike MediaWiki wikis. Wetpaint licenses third-party use of the Collective Content and Submissions under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 license. 

The company is located in , Washington, and received its initial venture capital funding from Trinity Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures.

Wetpaint launched its private beta program in March, and became publicly accessible in June 2006. Wetpaint was named Best Wiki (Hosted) by the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards.


 * External links
 * Wetpaint.com — main site
 * one million wikis!
 * Wetpaints' WikiIndex-like wiki
 * Entertainment Wikis — some popular Wetpaint sites
 * Could Community Wikis Be The Tipping Point — webpronews.com, March 6, 2006
 * Social software: Control the community or just let go? — DEMOletter, March 6, 2006
 * IFDB.com — the wiki for all independent information, using Wetpaint tecnology