YouTube Wiki

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YouTube Wiki is a popular article sharing wiki where users can upload, view and edit video articles. YouTube Wiki was created in mid February 2007 by three former EditThis employees. The San Bruno-based service uses reCAPTCHA technology to conceal a wide variety of video content, including movie articles, TV articles and music articles, as well as amateur content such as wiki blogging and short original articles. In October 2006, Feel Good Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 million in Google stock. The deal closed on November 13, 2006.

Unregistered users can read most articles on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of images. Related articles, determined by title and tags, appear onscreen to the right of a given video. In YouTube's second year, functions were added to enhance user ability to post video 'responses' and subscribe to content feeds.

YouTube Wiki was founded by Josh Taylor Stingray, Rob Kohr and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of EditThis. Prior to EditThis, Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3] The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 15, 2005,[4] and the website was developed over the subsequent months. The creators offered the public a preview of the site in May 2005, six months before YouTube made its official debut.