Delirium wrote: > Tim Starling wrote: >> Brock Weller wrote: >> >>> Don't know how linked we still are with wikia... >>> >> What do you mean "still"? Wikimedia has never been linked with Wikia to >> the extent where this topic might be relevant on foundation-l. It's no >> more relevant than Wikitravel, Jimmy's objectivist mailing lists or >> Answers.com. >> >> What Wikimedia's volunteers do outside of Wikimedia is their own business. >> > I'm pretty sure Wikitravel, Jimmy's objectivist mailing lists, and > Answers.com have never been widely confused with Wikimedia to the extent > that multiple news articles referred to them as the "commercial > counterpart" to Wikipedia. > They also did not share office space or > bandwidth with Wikimedia, or have debts to Wikimedia mentioned in > independent financial audits. They also did not use advertising slogans > that made prominent use of the Wikipedia trademark and implied a > relationship, such as Wikia's former slogan, "Wikipedia is the > Encyclopedia. Wikia is the rest of the library."
I'm not seeing anything in that rant that contradicts the point I was making. They might be different to Wikitravel in other ways, but they are the same in terms of the lack of relevance of a content-related complaint to foundation-l. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l