Wikia leasing office space to WMF, Greg Kohs wants answers Options

[LaraLove]

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/01/21/a-not...ity-initiative/

In the latest Wikimedia blog post, Naoko Komura states that "Daniel [Phelps] collected a dozen bids for the
space in [South of Market area of San Francisco], and Wikia matched the best offer." Gregory Kohs takes "best offer" to mean "lowest offer" and asks for some answers.

Erik Moller says, among other things, "We've suggested to Wikia a fair market rate based on the average of the other options we obtained; After some negotiation, Wikia accepted." This prompts David Levy to ask, "To clarify, did Wikia match the lowest bid?" Erik says no. They used "averaging" to determine a number based on the cost and advantages of other spaces. And not only did the WMF not match the lowest bid, but they're actually a little higher than a comparable space.

Then Thomas Dalton starts asking questions, believing this does not look good for a non-profit and that it isn't something that would fly under UK law. Komura responds, saying "W[ikia's] asking price was more than X [the "best offer"], but we said our offer price would not be more than the price quoted by X. So, W evaluated if they can rent out space higher than our offer price. As there was no higher bidder than us, W had agreed to offer the space at our offer price."

So Erik says Wikia's offer was more than the comparable space, which is assumed to be "X", which contradicted the blog post by Komura, who then responds again stating that it was a match in price. David noticed this as well and again asked for clarification.

And then it degrades into name-calling and other middle school-like crap typical of the project.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/found...ary/049340.html

[Doc glasgow]

And I'm wondering why wikipedia is promoting wikia over any other comparable service provider.

[Random832]

And I'm wondering why wikipedia is promoting wikia over any other comparable service provider.

Feel free to create Template:Nn-wikipediareview

[Doc glasgow]

And I'm wondering why wikipedia is promoting wikia over any other comparable service provider.

Feel free to create Template:Nn-wikipediareview

Ha.

I think that would constitute a WP:POINT