Hoi, The accountant states that there are no financial ties between Wikia and the Wikimedia Foundation.
The Wikimedia Foundation clearly develops for its own purposes. Wika does develop MediaWiki and MW extensions. Their software is licensed GPL as well and their code is available. They are much more sophisticated in fostering communities then we are in the WMF. If we choose to, we can use the functionality that Wikia developed.
PS as it is open source, Wikia software is localised at translatewiki.netjust like MediaWiki itself. Thanks, GerardM
On 8 November 2010 14:34, Arlen Beiler arlenbee@gmail.com wrote:
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@gmail.com
wrote:
On 8 November 2010 13:03, Arlen Beiler arlenbee@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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