http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2007/02/death-of-wikipedia-funding-woe/ Web Analytics, Social Media and Search Marketing Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:53:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2007/02/death-of-wikipedia-funding-woe/comment-page-1/#comment-797 funding Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:35:38 +0000 http://www.webmetricsguru.com/2007/02/death_of_wikipedia_funding_woe.html#comment-797 <p>Um, Wikia is not a "for-profit sister" of Wikipedia/Wikimedia. It's a completely separate organization - your phrasing implies it's a for-profit subsidiary, like Mozilla Corporation/Mozilla Foundation. This is not the case, even though the press keep getting this wrong. (I figure another six to twelve months of corrections every time from both Wikimedia and Wikia may alleviate this.)</p> Um, Wikia is not a “for-profit sister” of Wikipedia/Wikimedia. It’s a completely separate organization – your phrasing implies it’s a for-profit subsidiary, like Mozilla Corporation/Mozilla Foundation. This is not the case, even though the press keep getting this wrong. (I figure another six to twelve months of corrections every time from both Wikimedia and Wikia may alleviate this.)

]]>