Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25330335-20161229155836/@comment-25101690-20161229220312

MrHobit1234 wrote: SamwiseFilmore wrote:

MrHobit1234 wrote:

SamwiseFilmore wrote:

Matsumii wrote: I think Lysurus should be promoted as a content moderator because as SamwiseFilmore said he added alot of images to the wikipedia, and seems a decent person. Is this a troll? Wikipedia and this wiki are two very different things...

Tbh, Wikia is owned by Wikipedia, I think Wikia is a for-profit company that runs ads in order to make money. Wikipedia is a non-for-profit organization that sustains itself on donations. Since when could a non-for-profit own something?

The owner of wikia created Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales is co-founder of both the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikia, and is still working for both afaik. Wikipedia is owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. But the two organisations have no other relation to each other, apart from wikia using Wikimedias opensource software as a basis for their own software. Although Jimmy Wales co-founded the Wikimedia foundation, he does not own it, since it's a non-profit. He is bound to the non-profit guidelines of the organisation.