Hi Angela,
2008/1/2, Angela Beesley angela@wikia.com wrote:
I'm happy to host this for you at Wikia.
Thanks for the offer but I think I'd like to wait until I find alternative ad-free hosting. This is because having ads can lead to a slight loss of editorial freedom. Or would you cut me a special deal: no ads at first? Then you get the benefit of this nice, useful resource (Extrapedia) having "wikia.com" in its domain name and all the Wikia branding on the sides of the screen and on the start page.
What do you think?
You might also like to check out annex.wikia.com which is a project aimed at rescuing deleted articles from Wikipedia.
Hmm. Interesting wiki but different in that want to be just a temporary holding area for articles until they are moved to other Wikias.
Now I wonder in general: why do there need to be multiple Wikias? Why can't all articles from all Wikias be one wiki?
Cheers, -Jason
P.S. If someone here knows how to set Reply-To headers, could they crosspost this to WikiEN-L and set Reply-To so that all future replies will go there, not here?
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:13:36AM +0000, Jason Spiro wrote:
2008/1/2, Angela Beesley angela@wikia.com wrote:
I'm happy to host this for you at Wikia.
Thanks for the offer but I think I'd like to wait until I find alternative ad-free hosting. This is because having ads can lead to a slight loss of editorial freedom. Or would you cut me a special deal: no ads at first? Then you get the benefit of this nice, useful resource (Extrapedia) having "wikia.com" in its domain name and all the Wikia branding on the sides of the screen and on the start page.
What do you think?
Since I am entirely unofficial, and not in charge of anything anywhere, I can afford to tell you what *I* think:
If this was such a cool idea, you'd have had half a dozen Really Important People jumping all over it by now, and you wouldn't have to be asking for special favors.
And given what you want to do with it, I don't see where the "editorial freedom" you're concerned about actually applies.
So I -- as I suspect, many others -- will assume there's something... odd going on here.
I'm pretty sure you need Wikia more than they need you.
Cheers, -- jra
Jay R. Ashworth <jra@...> writes:
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Since I am entirely unofficial, and not in charge of anything anywhere, I can afford to tell you what *I* think:
If this was such a cool idea, you'd have had half a dozen Really Important People jumping all over it by now, and you wouldn't have to be asking for special favors.
Fair point.
And given what you want to do with it, I don't see where the "editorial freedom" you're concerned about actually applies.
Another fair point. I guess my main goal is to have no ads. But I do believe that those companies who advertise on Extrapedia would :)
So I -- as I suspect, many others -- will assume there's something... odd going on here.
What do you mean "odd"? I am just suggesting Extrapedia as an idea. I do agree this is the wrong place to discuss it. But: Maybe WikiEN-L would be an appropriate place? How can I set future emails in the thread to move to a different list? (I use Gmail.)
I'm pretty sure you need Wikia more than they need you.
I'll see how they respond.
Cheers, -- Jason Spiro: corporate trainer, web developer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your needs and get a free estimate. +1 (613) 668-6096 / Email: info@jspiro.com / MSN: jasonspiro@hotmail.com
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