[Foundation-l] the annual advertisement discussion

[Arlen Beiler]

I thought someone was saying that Wikia gets all kinds of special treatment,
or something like that.

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 8 November 2010 13:03, Arlen Beiler <arlenbee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For one thing, we have always been proud of how Wikipedia and its sister
> > sites have been ad-free. Why don't we get those half-breeds with their
> ads
> > and everything to do the revenue making? I mean, of course, Wikia. Having
> > ads on Wikipedia (or anywhere else) would be awful.
>
> Wikia is doing lots of revenue making (I believe it is even turning a
> profit now, which is impressive given its age). That doesn't really
> benefit us, though. It benefits the shareholders of Wikia (although
> Wikia has donated to the WMF in the past and probably will the future,
> so we get a little out of it, I suppose). Wikia has nothing to do with
> Wikipedia except for running on the same software and sharing a board
> member. It certainly doesn't exist to raise money for the Wikimedia
> movement.
>
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