[Foundation-l] the annual advertisement discussion

[Gerard Meijssen]

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 at 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 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On 8 November 2010 13:03, Arlen Beiler <arlenbee at 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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