On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Bobby S <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps this isn't the forum for this, but I wanted to pose it to you > all anyway to spark some debate and discussion. I understand this may > not be popular with some... > > Why isn't Wikimedia or some other non-profit organization creating the > "library" as Jimmy Wales likes to describe Wikia? Aren't the sites on > Wikia knowledge and information just like Wikimedia's sites?...while > you could argue that Wikimedia's sites are more easily classified as > educational, the sites on Wikia do have information that educates on > specific topics. > > Why then should we let a commercial company control the "library" > instead of a non-profit? I understand some will argue that the fact > that Wikia is copyleft means they are the good guy in the fight, but I > would argue that they have no skin in the game to make their content > easily accessible for other purposes and make their content easily > digested without a bevy of ads in order to pay for the servers. > > Wondering what your thoughts are on this topic. > > Bobby >
Definitely not the right place for this. mediawiki-l is for help and support with installation and usage of Mediawiki itself. The fact that both Wikia and Wikimedia use it doesn't make this list more relevant to your questions :) -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
