On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:07:01PM -0500, Jason Spiro wrote:
2008/1/3, Samuel Wantman sam@wantman.net wrote off-list and later gave me permission to reply on-list: ...
I agree with you that this should not be on a commercial site. It should be part of Wikipedia. Anything outside of Wikipedia is a backwater. I ask everyone I meet if they've been to Wikipedia. They all say they have. Then I ask them if they have ever been to Wikinews, Wiktionary or Wikia. Not a single person I have asked has even heard of Wikia. A very large majority have never been to any of the other Wikimedia projects. Anything moved from Wikipedia is moved into obscurity.
I agree 100%. Like you say, if it's not on Wikipedia, it doesn't exist.
I suspect that you'd get a lot of hits on Memory Alpha... from people who don't even realize it's now hosted by Wikia.
Cheers, -- jra