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