FYI, Wikia taps eBay exec as CEO San Francisco Business Times - 2:41 PM PDT Monday Wikia Inc., a for-profit company founded 18 months ago by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, hired Gil Penchina as its CEO on Monday. Penchina was vice president and general manager at eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). Wales and Angela Beesley started Menlo Park-based Wikia to allow for subscription and advertising supported "wikis" or user-created communities similar to Wikipedia, which is based in St. Petersburg, Fla. Popular communities created on the site include several devoted to analyzing and discussing television shows, particularly those with Byzantine plots like ABC's "Lost." Wikia has about eight employees and raised $4 million from Bessemer Venture Partners in March. Jeremy Levine of Bessemer sits on the company's board. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2006/06/05/daily9.…