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."
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