Please re-read the context below - of course, you're right that "wiki" is not equal to wikip/media - but that's not what Andre or Ruth were saying
How were they saying otherwise? They thought wikia = wikipedia?
-Bop
Are you being deliberately obtuse? Nowhere did anyone say "Wikia - Wikipedia" apart from you.
Ruth mentioned the following:
"On July 4, 2006, Jimmy Wales opened a new wiki devoted to political topics. You can find it at"
Andre mentioned:
"So? So nothing. Ruth is just warning people who expect to get to some kind of Wikipedia as to what to actually expect."
Now, I don't see anywhere there where they say "Wikia is Wikipedia".
I think it is quite a reasonable thing to announce on the list and we would have saved everyone a lot of time if you hadn't have gone off on one over something you thought you read.
Incidentally, Ruth is right, it is not "just another Wiki", it is "just another Wiki run by the guy who runs/owns/$your verb here$ Wikipedia". Hence interesting, but another Wiki, say "Wikiporn" (recent AfD candidate) would /not/ be interesting because it isn't run by Jimbo Wales.
Fran.