QUOTE(Somey @ Mon 4th February 2008, 12:45am)
Can they not say "no"? I assume they just don't bother with minimum-content rules, things like that?
They also don't do a very good job of
managing the vandalism, either.
It's odd, because Wikipedia itself has a bunch of rules about which external links are "
normally to be avoided":
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Links to open wikis, except those with a substantial history of stability and a substantial number of editors. Wikis that meet this criteria might also be added to Meta:Interwiki map.
Think about the couple thousand links from Wikipedia to the Wikia Proteins Wiki. Do you think Wikia Proteins has a
substantial number of editors? Sure doesn't look like it. But, nobody will touch those links, because Wikia is owned by Jimbo and Angela and Mike, and the Wikipediots love that crew.
To close, I'd like to share with you some excerpts from what Wikia CEO Gil Penchina wrote to me yesterday, when I pointed out that SpankingArt.org was
improperly associating itself (still) with Wikia, Inc.:
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...you need to talk to them yourself, as we're unfortunately neither responsible for, nor able to help when you have a concern.
...Contacting us about their new site is pretty silly. It's not ours and It's a wiki. If you don't like something there, feel free to edit it. I'm moving on.
...I'm assuming good faith as they took a copy of the wiki when they forked, so there's some content that came over accidentally and I am sure they will clean it up eventually.
It would seem in the hippie-dippy world of wikis, protecting against misuse of your corporate brand, even on another entity's "Legal terms" page, is something that will "eventually" get cleaned up, and preferably by someone else.
Wikia is a joke. Wikipedia is a joke. And the people who founded and operate both are a joke.
Greg