Anthony wrote:
On 9/22/07, Florence Devouard
<Anthere9(a)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