Anthony wrote:
On 9/22/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Anthony wrote:
Wikia is in the San Francisco area. Any chance they'd be willing to donate some office space to Wikipedia?
Even if they had, we should not accept it (and I doubt they would propose).
Why wouldn't they propose? Wikia wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for the success of Wikipedia [sic]. A donation of some office space is the least they could do.
The issue is not one of offering, but of accepting. Whether such an offer is made is entirely within Wikia's control; whether it's accepted is entirely within WMF's control. It's important to maintain an arms length with the for profit company. Potential liabilities or conflicts of interest ned to be avoided.
We have gone through great efforts to fully separate from them and we now have no more financial/legal/technical relationships. Only love relationships, which is just fine.
Well, there still a lot of person-overlap, between the board, the advisory board, employees, arb com, etc. And there's still the whole interwiki linking mess. And now, they're gonna be in the same metropolitan area (which surely will help with the whole people-overlap part).
At least this "relationship" would be to the benefit of the WMF.
But only in the very short term while WMF is trying to establish itself in a new city. We need to look further than that.
Ec