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48-1067: (Redirected from Watty ) Wattie or Watty is a masculine given name or nickname, often a diminutive form of Walter , and a surname. It may refer to: Given name or nickname [ edit ] Walter Aitkenhead (1887–1966), Scottish footballer Walter Watty Allan (1868–1943), Scottish footballer Walter Wattie Buchan (born 1957), Scottish punk rock lead vocalist and musician Derrick Watty Burnett (born 1950), Jamaican reggae vocalist and musician William Watson Watty Clark (1902–1972), American Major League Baseball pitcher Wattie Cooper ( fl. 1927 ), New Zealand footballer Wharton Wattie Davies (1873–1961), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer Peter Watt Wattie Dick (1927—2012), Scottish footballer Walter Wattie Dunphy (1896–1972), Irish hurler Walter Watty Friend (1898–c. 1983), Australian rugby union player Roscoe Wattie Holm (1901–1950), American Major League Baseball player Walter Wattie Jackson , Scottish footballer in
96-422: A threat actor from an unknown source was responsible for the breach, along with the sourcing of over 278 million password credentials and email addresses, with breakdown analysis suggested that Gmail , Yahoo , and Outlook accounts were mostly affected. The Wattpad Corporation has since investigated and patched the issue. In January 2021, Wattpad announced that it was to be acquired by Naver Corporation in
144-546: A $ 600 million cash-and-stock deal. In an interview, Lau states "it’s also been very clear from Naver, and we agree, that we should operate as independently as possible." Wattpad will remain headquartered in Canada and under its current leadership. In April 2024, Wattpad announced that it would be removing a private messaging (PM) feature from the platform in response to a report on sexual grooming in PMs. Wattpad has stated that
192-643: A Turkish court, the Ankara 10th Penal Court of Peace, ordered that access to Wattpad be blocked. As of July 18th, users within Turkey have been unable to access the site without use of a VPN. This makes Turkey the first country to officially restrict access to the site. As of September 2020: In 2018, nearly 300,000 writers from 35 countries take part in its yearly writing competition, The Watty Awards. Famous authors such as Margaret Atwood and R. L. Stine have also joined Wattpad. Atwood has posted poetry and judged
240-559: A Wattpad account. During the summer of 2012, Wattpad in collaboration with Margaret Atwood , Canadian poet/novelist/literary critic, held the "Wattys": the first major poetry contest offering a chance to poets on Wattpad to compete against each other in one of two categories, either as an "Enthusiast" or a "Competitor". It has been going ever since, and now the contest is open to books of all genres. Wattpad has formed ties with publishing houses to try to help Wattpad authors to receive compensation for their works. A new branch, Wattpad Studios,
288-405: A group of venture funds led by Khosla Ventures . In April 2014, Wattpad announced $ 46M in a Series C of funding led by OMERS ventures. In January 2018, Wattpad announced USD $ 51M in funding from Tencent Holdings Limited , BDC, Globe Telecom's Kickstart Ventures, Peterson Group, Canso, and existing investor Raine. In December 2011, Wattpad was selected as the hottest Digital Media company in
336-574: A guest attempts to view replies to a comment, or wishes to give feedback themselves, they will be prompted to create an account or log in to do so. Early in its history, some large volumes of user-uploaded material hosted on Wattpad was copyrighted material created by authors who did not grant republication rights. In May 2009, an article in The New York Times noted, "Sites like Scribd and Wattpad, which invite users to upload documents like college theses and self-published novels, have been
384-509: A mix of machine learning algorithims and human editors. The acquisitions team looks to Wattpad's large and existing digital library (over half a billion titles) in order to select notable material for publication. According to Wattpad Books leader Ashleigh Gardner, this is in an effort to combat bias inherent in human editors. Gardner says that this technology analyses the data behind each title, looking at story structure and word use in addition to levels of reader engagement per title. This data
432-597: A partnership with Anvil Publishing, Inc., one of the Philippines' leading publishers, to create Bliss Books, a YA imprint with Filipino Young Adult and romance fanatics as their target market. Netflix film The Kissing Booth was written in 2011 by author Beth Reekles . It originated as a story on Wattpad where it won a Watty Award for "Most Popular Teen Fiction" in Wattpad's annual writing contest. By 2012 it had amassed over 19 million reads on Wattpad and, in 2013,
480-634: A pen name of Arnold Munk, author of the best-known version of the children's story The Little Engine That Could Surname [ edit ] Elsie Wattie Lackey (1901–1992), American bacteriologist Harry Wattie (1893–1916), Scottish footballer James Wattie (1902–1974), New Zealand company manager, industrialist, philanthropist and race-horse owner, founder of Wattie's John Wattie , Episcopalian Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1948 to 1953 Nora Wattie (1900–1994), Scottish public health medicine and ante-natal pioneer In fiction [ edit ] Bessie Watty and Mrs. Watty, characters in
528-488: A poetry contest on the platform. Stine has used Wattpad to post chapters of his books and done interactive events with readers. Wattpad has increased in popularity among many fandoms , who take to the platform to craft their own fan fiction . One of the most notable stories on the platform is the After series by Anna Todd , which was originally published as a Harry Styles fan fiction. After its large popularity amongst
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#1732794486361576-401: A vehicle for user-generated e-book infringement) Wattpad announced an "Authors In Charge" program, designed to allow authors or their representatives to identify and directly remove infringing content from the site, but this program is designed specifically for "authors with published books for sale." Authors may begin their stories on Wattpad and then choose to publish their work. In most cases,
624-660: A writing competition on Wattpad [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share the same given name or the same family name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wattie&oldid=1252975171 " Categories : Given names Surnames Masculine given names Hypocorisms Nicknames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description with empty Wikidata description All set index articles Walter (name) Walter
672-504: Is Beautiful Publishing Company, launched Wattpad Presents , a series of Wattpad stories turned into TV dramas. Wattpad stories aired on the show are usually those that were published by LIB Publishing. ABS-CBN also made several adaptations of Wattpad stories such as "My App Boyfie" by Noreen Capili (noringai), starring James Reid and Nadine Lustre , and the coming-of-age series Bagito starring Nash Aguas , Alexa Ilacad and Ella Cruz . Pop Fiction's best-selling book, She's Dating
720-428: Is a German and English masculine given name of Germanic origin, composed of the elements walt- ( Proto-Germanic *wald- ) "power", "ruler", and hari (Proto-Germanic *χarja ) "army". The name was first popularized by the epic German hero Walther von Aquitaine , and later from the name of the writer Walther von der Vogelweide . The name is first recorded in the 6th century, with Walthari son of Wacho , who
768-694: Is based in Toronto , Ontario. In February 2007, Wattpad had announced the addition of over 17,000 e-books from Project Gutenberg , making them available to mobile users. According to a June 2009 Wattpad press release, the application had been downloaded over 5 million times. In March 2009, an iPhone version was released. This was followed by the launch on BlackBerry App World in April 2009, Google Android in June 2009 and Apple iPad in April 2010. In December 2015, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile Version
816-453: Is the third-largest category on Wattpad, closely behind Romance and Teen Fiction, many of which are also fan fictions. Wattpad hosts a number of writing contests each year, including the annual Watty Awards, the largest writing competition in the world. In 2011, The Watty Awards introduced three entry levels (Popular, On The Rise, and Undiscovered) to allow greater chances of winning for every type of writer. Contests are open to anyone who has
864-647: Is then compared to analyses of other books on Wattpad and in the public domain. Once all the data has been collected and engagement has been looked at, human staffers read the titles and create their list. All published titles are a combination of international hits and notable but known material from their digital library. These titles are distributed by Macmillan in the United States of America, Raincoast Books in Canada, and Penguin Random House in India and
912-456: The After and The Kissing Booth series. In January 2019, Wattpad launched its own publishing division named Wattpad Books to ease the effort for its authors. In January 2021, Naver Corporation announced that it would be acquiring Wattpad and the deal was completed in May 2021. Wattpad was developed in 2006, as the result of a collaboration between Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen. The company
960-484: The One Direction fandom and the app's readers, the story became the most read book on Wattpad, having achieved just under 10 million unique readers on the platform and been read more than one billion times. The series went on to be published by Gallery Books and became a New York Times Best Seller . By crafting a spot for fanfiction alongside its other genres, Wattpad prioritizes its teen readers and gives
1008-662: The 1920s Walter Watty Keay (1871–1943), Scottish footballer Wyatt Watty Lee (1879–1936), American Major League Baseball outfielder and pitcher Watson Watty Moore (1925–1967), English footballer Walter Watty Shirlaw (born 1902), Scottish footballer George Walter Watty Wallace (1900–1964), Australian politician Bill Watkins (1858–1937), sometimes known as "Wattie" or "Watty", Canadian-born Major League Baseball player, manager, executive and team owner Craig Watson (triathlete) (born 1971), New Zealand triathlete Walter Wattie Wilson (1879–1926), Scottish footballer Pen name [ edit ] Watty Piper ,
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#17327944863611056-490: The Gangster , written by Bianca Bernardino (SGWannaB) as a Wattpad original, became the first Wattpad story adapted into a full-length motion picture starring Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla . The movie adaptation was produced by ABS-CBN's film production arm, Star Cinema. Liza Soberano and Enrique Gil also starred on the film Just The Way You Are , based on the Wattpad story "The Bet" by Ilurvbooks. "Chasing Red"
1104-615: The United Kingdom, with their Fall 2019 list available in leading North American retailers. Outside North America, Gardner has sold the rights to Hachette (France) for Deanna Cameron's What Happened Last Night. Additionally, Lauren Palphreyman's rights to Cupid's Match have been sold in French (Hachette) and German (S. Fischer Verlag). Wattpad's first list consisted of six young adult novels. The QB Bad Boy & Me by Tay Marley (28.8 million reads) will be their lead title and
1152-664: The chance to earn money through their work and to provide support for readers. Wattpad planned a fast-follow launch for Next in Spanish-speaking regions and to expand the program. The program was available in Latin America and Spain beginning May 27, 2019, before expanding worldwide on July 11 the same year. On September 17, 2019, the Wattpad Team announced the ending of the Next Beta program after results from
1200-727: The country at the Canadian Innovation Exchange. In the same year, co-founder and CEO Ivan Yuen was also recognized as a top Canadian entrepreneur at the Impact Infused Awards, sponsored by Deloitte . In March 2014, Wattpad signed a contract with Pop Fiction, an imprint of Summit Media , to print Filipino Wattpad stories in the Philippines. Other publishers from the Philippines also publish stories from Wattpad. Since then, some Wattpad stories have also been adapted into teleseryes . Filipino television network TV5 , in partnership with Wattpad and Life
1248-490: The feature has "only been relevant to a small percentage of our user base" and removing it could foster "transparent dialogue." However, proponents of retaining private messaging have stated that private messaging allows for collaboration among other things. Access to Wattpad from within mainland China is restricted. Censorship in China covers topics such as LGBT+ content, which censors consider to be immoral. In July 2024,
1296-527: The first few weeks after the launch. On July 28, 2017, Tap launched "Tap Originals", a series of original stories produced by writers every week, with some of these series working on an episode-by-episode basis. On November 13, 2018, Wattpad introduced "Next Beta" to a few select countries for early testing. The launch of the Next Beta featured over 50 stories that were to be paid for with Watt Coins, which could be earned by having readers spend coins to unlock participating Next Beta stories. This offered writers
1344-596: The frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:643) in the following states: Watty Awards Wattpad is a website for reading and publishing original written fiction and connecting with fellow writers and readers. Its most popular genres are romance , teen fiction , and fan fiction . As of November 2021, Wattpad has more than 90 million monthly users (the majority of whom are younger women) and there are over 665 million story uploads in total. Some of its stories have been transformed into mainstream novels and TV series and movies, such as
1392-831: The god of war, Ziu or Eor , and that the circumstance that the hero of the Waltharius poems loses his right hand in battle may be significant, linking him to the Norse tradition of Tyr . As of 2014, 43.5% of all known bearers of the surname Walter were residents of Germany (frequency 1:643), 23.4% of the United States (1:5,374), 5.0% of Nigeria (1:12,307), 4.0% of France (1:5,814), 2.0% of Austria (1:1,467), 1.9% of England (1:10,157), 1.8% of Brazil (1:38,529), 1.6% of Australia (1:5,113), 1.4% of Angola (1:6,511), 1.3% of Canada (1:9,641), 1.3% of Switzerland (1:2,176), 1.2% of Ghana (1:7,682), 1.1% of Argentina (1:13,353), 1.0% of Poland (1:12,776) and 1.0% of South Africa (1:19,181). In Germany,
1440-517: The interactive margin commenting. Registered readers can add comments and feedback by individual lines and paragraphs as they are reading rather than after the chapter or story is finished. These comment sections are available to be viewed by all readers (guests and non-guests alike, so far as of 2021). Registered users can also use them for reacting to the chapter, offering feedback, or just for personal input, allowing readers to see what others are thinking and writers to see how readers are responding. If
1488-598: The most-watched movies in the country, and maybe in the world". The Kissing Booth was the fourth most-popular movie in IMDb 's popularity rankings in June 2018. Wattpad has also signed deals with Asian distribution partners, such as pan-Asian streaming platform Iflix to co-produce dozens of original movies based on Wattpad stories out of Indonesia, and Singapore's Mediacorp , to bring Wattpad stories to Mediacorp's FTA channels such as Channel 5 (with exception of CNA ) and its streaming service Toggle. On December 8, 2021, it
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1536-535: The name is Wouter . The German name has also been adopted in a number of languages in the spelling Valter . The Latinized form is Waltharius , the title of a poem of the late 9th or early 10th century on the legendary Gothic king Walter of Aquitaine . A fragmentary Old English poem on the same character is known as Waldere . Jacob Grimm in Teutonic Mythology speculates that Walthari , literally "wielder of hosts", may have been an epithet of
1584-416: The platform a twist. Deputy General Manager, Ashleigh Gardner, added the following about the genre: "What’s unique about Wattpad is that fanfic is treated like any other genre, living alongside other forms of fiction. This makes it more fluid for readers of an original fiction to discover a new fanfic, or inspire a fanfiction writer to start a new story and bring their audience along with them." Fan fiction
1632-484: The play The Corn Is Green and its 1945 film adaptation See also [ edit ] Watty, a nickname for the city of Watford , England Wattie's , an American-owned food processing company in the New Zealand market Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards , presented from 1968 to 1993 Wat (given name) , another short form of Walter George McWattie (1875–?), Scottish footballer Watty Awards ,
1680-598: The program showed that "Wattpadders are ready for a program that funds writers". The program was later rebranded to "Paid Stories". In June 2020, Wattpad suffered a huge data breach that exposed almost 270 million records. The data was initially sold before being published on a public hacking forum where it was widely circulated. The incident exposed extensive personal information including names and usernames, email and IP addresses , genders, birth dates and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes . Later that same year on July 14, researchers at Risk Based Security discovered that
1728-441: The stories are longer. In February 2015, Wattpad launched a second standalone app called "After Dark". The app focuses specifically on the romance genre and is intended for adult readers. On February 21, 2017, Wattpad launched a chat stories app called Tap , which offers stories in the form of text messages as if reading a private conversation on someone else's phone. The app was an early success, with over 240 million taps in
1776-607: The study aims to show how constructive criticism affects their writing process. Most participants prefer serious feedback over subtle critiquing, based on the results. Wattpad as well as similar online writing communities help young authors build and construct their self perception as writers, as well as establishes an audience and interact with readers. It acts as a gateway into the publishing realm and offers hands-on experience with digital writing. This type of experience helps writers develop personal authorship. Wattpad offers unique features that other writing platforms do not, such as
1824-497: The target of industry grumbling in recent weeks, as illegal reproductions of popular titles have turned up on them". The Wattpad website notes, "We do not welcome upload of material that violates its copyright terms," but also states "it is simply not possible to screen and verify all posted content." In response to industry criticism, in April 2009 (before the publication of the New York Times article that named Wattpad as
1872-427: The website to serve as a springboard into the more traditional publishing industry. Author Anna Todd , whose work After has received over a billion reads on the site, was given a publishing deal with Simon & Schuster to turn her online work into a multiple-book published saga. A film version starring Josephine Langford , Hero Fiennes Tiffin , Selma Blair, Jennifer Beals, Peter Gallagher, and Shane Paul McGhie
1920-403: The work on Wattpad is only a sample to ensure funds going to them in regard to their writing. Bookmate and the long-established and popular sites FanFiction.Net and Fiction Press (a spin-off site for original fiction) also serve as hubs for online prose. An alternative site which is free and open source is Archive of Our Own , or AO3. Monogatary.com [ ja ] is named after
1968-527: Was king of the Lombards during 539–546. Old Germanic forms are recorded as Walthari , Waltari , Walthar , Waltar , Waltere , Waldheri , Waldhere , Waltheri , Walthere , Walther , Walter , Waldher , and Valter . The Old English equivalent is Wealdhere , Old Norse has Valðar and Valdarr . The name entered the French language as Gauthier , Spanish as Gutierre , Portuguese as Gualter and Italian as Gualtiero . The modern Dutch form of
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2016-411: Was announced that ViacomCBS would be partnering with Wattpad to produce some of its original stories. Wattpad, with AwesomenessTV , produces Hulu 's popular Light as a Feather . According to a study, online writing communities like Wattpad help young writers learn and grow their craft from constructive feedback and criticism. Composed of students and their experiences on online writing platforms,
2064-406: Was developed to connect popular writers to both the publishing and film industries. Wattpad has, in the past, teamed up with publishing groups such as Sourcebooks to help Wattpad authors receive book deals, and get their work into hard copies. More traditional publishing houses such as Random House and HarperCollins have approached popular Wattpad writers to negotiate publishing deals, allowing
2112-408: Was published by Penguin Random House . In an interview with Forbes , Reekles explains what drew her to Wattpad: "I loved the feeling of community on the site, and when I began to share, I liked the anonymity of it because I was so self-conscious about my writing and hadn't shared it with anyone before." Since The Kissing Booth premiered on Netflix on May 11, 2018, Ted Sarandos called it "one of
2160-415: Was published by isabelleronin, a Filipino-Canadian writer which got more than 200 million views. In 2021, He's Into Her , a novel written by Maxinejiji (Maxine Lat Calibuso), will premiere on iWant TFC , starring Belle Mariano and Donny Pangilinan . GMA Network has also started making adaptations of Wattpad stories via Luv Is , a series of stories turned into dramas similar to that of TV5 but
2208-419: Was released by Aviron Pictured on April 12, 2019. On January 24, 2019, Wattpad launched publishing division Wattpad Books led by Wattpad Studios' Publishing Deputy Manager Ashleigh Gardner, with operations managed by Wattpad Studios' Publishing Director Deanna McFadden. According to CEO Allen Lau, this project was in an effort to take the "guesswork" out of publishing. The Wattpad Books acquisitions team uses
2256-521: Was released. Currently, Wattpad has more than 90 million users who collectively spend 15 billion minutes each month using Wattpad. As of 2018, there are more than 400 million fanfiction uploads on Wattpad. As of January 2018, Wattpad had received almost USD $ 117.8M in funding from investors. In 2011, Wattpad announced that it received $ 3.5M in total funding from its current investors, and from W Media Ventures, Golden Venture Partners, and Union Square Ventures . Then in June 2012, Wattpad raised $ 17.3M from
2304-518: Was slated for release on August 13, 2019. The remaining five books will be released between September and October 2019 and include: Trapeze by Leigh Ansell (2.5 million reads), What Happened That Night by Deanna Cameron (over 1 million reads), Saving Everest by Sky Reads (17.2 million reads), Cupid's Match by Lauren Palphreyman (46.4 million reads), and I'm a Gay Wizard by V.S. Santoni (404,000 reads). Wattpad hopes to publish 18 titles in their 2020 list. Besides Wattpad Books, Wattpad announced
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