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Attention please, attention please!
GreenReaper:
--- Quote from: Schneelocke on 15.09.2006, 22:08:02 ---Not technically the same people, actually... Wikia and the Wikimedia Foundation happen to share a number of members, but they're otherwise completely separate entities. But of course, I have no doubts that the FIA is secretly controlling the latter, too. ;)
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Now who's spoiling the conspiracy? ;)
In truth, they are separate organizations, but there are several top people involved in both. In fact, there is a discussion about this that just started at Wikipedia. I spend quite a lot of time with the Wikia staff (they paid for me to present at Wikimania), and I happen to know that Wikipedia and Wikia were both started on the very same server, ross.bomis.com (at different times, obviously). If that's not suspicious I don't know what is! *grin*
GreenReaper:
--- Quote from: somewolf ---btw: nice you are here, when will YOU attend EF ?
i'm eager to meet you IRL :-)
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I should really have dropped by when I lived in the UK, but I didn't know about it. Maybe next year, if I have the time free. Alas, there is not as much holiday here in the US as in Europe!
Schneelocke:
--- Quote from: GreenReaper on 15.09.2006, 22:20:40 ---In truth, they are separate organizations, but there are several top people involved in both. In fact, there is a discussion about this that just started at Wikipedia. I spend quite a lot of time with the Wikia staff (they paid for me to present at Wikimania), and I happen to know that Wikipedia and Wikia were both started on the very same server, ross.bomis.com (at different times, obviously). If that's not suspicious I don't know what is! *grin*
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Oh? Interesting - I don't remember the absolutely earliest days of Wikipedia (I only did my first edits - that I can still find, at least - at the very end of 2001 and didn't sign up until in May 2003), but wasn't Wikia founded much later, after Wikipedia was already occupying several servers? (It was on three when I started in 2003...)
Of course, I don't actually *know*, but I always was under the impression that Wikia was only started long after Bomis was not directly involved with Wikipedia anymore. :)
somewolf:
can we maybe go back to the topic:
blaming me for conduction those anouncements in this specific matter
and finding a solution on who'll do this ugly job next year
*trying to distract from the fia*
*wag*
just
somewolf
psst! o'wolf could you please do your job and spread some of this 'truth(tm)' again
GreenReaper:
--- Quote from: Schneelocke on 15.09.2006, 22:27:46 ---
--- Quote from: GreenReaper on 15.09.2006, 22:20:40 ---In truth, they are separate organizations, but there are several top people involved in both. In fact, there is a discussion about this that just started at Wikipedia. I spend quite a lot of time with the Wikia staff (they paid for me to present at Wikimania), and I happen to know that Wikipedia and Wikia were both started on the very same server, ross.bomis.com (at different times, obviously). If that's not suspicious I don't know what is! *grin*
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Oh? Interesting - I don't remember the absolutely earliest days of Wikipedia (I only did my first edits - that I can still find, at least - at the very end of 2001 and didn't sign up until in May 2003), but wasn't Wikia founded much later, after Wikipedia was already occupying several servers? (It was on three when I started in 2003...)
Of course, I don't actually *know*, but I always was under the impression that Wikia was only started long after Bomis was not directly involved with Wikipedia anymore. :)
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Yes, this is the case. It moved off Bomis servers after it started getting significant funding. Wikia was initially just the name of Jimbo's company that created Wikiasari, a "user-directed search" project, something like a directory. That project never really got going (like Nupedia). In late 2004 they started Wikicities instead, once it became clear that Wikipedia could not fulfill the needs of all wiki users. I joined on Christmas 2004, about a month after they started their first wikis, and have been involved since then. Earlier this year Wikicities became Wikia instead, as people got confused as to whether it was wikis about cities.
Hehe, sorry somewolf . . . I should get going now, I have work to do. ;)
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