On 6/7/06, Selina . wikipediareview@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/06/06, Tim Starling < t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
Andrew Lih wrote:
FYI,
Wikia taps eBay exec as CEO San Francisco Business Times - 2:41 PM PDT Monday
Wikia Inc., a for-profit company founded 18 months ago by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, hired Gil Penchina as its CEO on Monday.
Penchina was vice president and general manager at eBay (NASDAQ:
EBAY).
Penchina was *a* vice president of eBay. eBay is one of these
companies
with lots of division presidents, senior vice presidents and vice
presidents.
http://pages.ebay.com/aboutebay/thecompany/executiveteam.html
-- Tim Starling
Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
It's disturbing to think how much money donated to the charity Wikimedia
is
used for running commercial organisation Wikia...
-- Selina - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mistress_Selina_Kyle?oldid=55639088 / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mistress_Selina_Kyle?oldid=41845454 http://wikipediareview.com/?showuser=1 "I *do* think criticism is good for Wikipedia [...] Good quality
criticism
is valuable, and Wikipedians should listen to it, and actually make
changes
based on it. Are there corrupt administrators, then we should get rid of them." --Jimmy Wales ( http://wikipediareview.com/?showtopic=1693 ) _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
On 07/06/06, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, What does make you say that?
When you read the stuff well, Wikia has been provided capital to expand its operation. There is no money from the Wikimedia Foundation
involved. People have a day job you know..
Thanks,
GerardM
Read what stuff well? Wikipedia has http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising but I can't find anything about how Wikia gets it's money. http://wikia.com/wiki/About_Wikia for example has absolutely nothing Go to https://sos-res.state.de.us/tin/GINameSearch.jsp and search for "Wikia" and it says it's "NOT IN GOOD STANDING" - I don't know what that means, but it doesn't sound like a good thing.
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=192 has some stuff, apparently there is no paper trail which is bad compared to the openness with Wikimedia, especially when the two organisations are so closely related.
I'm not saying anything bad is going on at all, but there's no way for the public to know if everything's kept secret.