Is that just a guess, or is Wikia in a financial bind?
About Jimbo, that's crazy. There are tons of CEOs that are also on non-
profit boards that have similar areas of interest. Jimbo's for-profit
companies are what originally helped fund Wikipedia in the first
place. For a guy who was so willing to put that money into Wikipedia
instead of into his own pockets, I find it hard to believe there is
any kind of conflict simply because his latest venture also uses
MediaWiki software, or that it is even a viable business strategy.
-- Ned Scott
On Jan 7, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Anthony wrote:
On Jan 7, 2008 7:55 PM, Steve Bennett
<stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Would such a move benefit Wikipedia? I doubt it.
If we had to choose
between Jimbo and Angela working on both projects, or working only on
Wikia, we would be crazy to choose the latter.
In a year or two it probably won't matter anyway, as Wikia won't
exist any more.
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