User blog comment:Darkman 4/So, what's a wikia?/@comment-65693-20100507043901

Wikia, our host company, is in no way synonymous with "Wikipedia" nor "wiki". Wikipedia is a website owned by the non-profit Wikimedia corporation (notice the M). Wikia is a for-profit company that hosts thousands of small wikis and makes money off of the ad space they sell.

The reason the ".wikia" is in the URL is so that this website remains part of both the wikia.com mother website and part of the Wikia company.

Referring to this website as the "Call of Duty Wikia" is an inaccurate and incorrect thing to do. It is the Call of Duty Wiki because it is the wiki about Call of Duty. You wouldn't call Salt Lake City "Salt Like Paris" because Paris is another city and that word is in the name already.