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Wikia is not a satisfactory alternative to Wikipedia, at least in terms of ethical status of the host (Wikia is a company and there are ads on Wikia wikis), in
by a3_nm 12y ago
Wikia is not a satisfactory alternative to Wikipedia, at least in terms of ethical status of the host (Wikia is a company and there are ads on Wikia wikis), in terms of internal consistency, and in terms of content licensing and of availability of dumps.
- jiggy2011 12y agoThere are open source wiki platforms so wikia is not the only option.
- a3_nm 12y agoThe problem is not the license of the software. I think Wikia also uses MediaWiki which is free software. For the other points that I mentioned, I'm not sure I know many wiki hosts which are free as in free beer, run by a nonprofit, sustainable through donations, show no ads, have their content under a free license and dump it in a way comparable to http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/.
- abvdasker 12y agoThe quality is also much, much worse.
- cbd1984 12y agoRight. Which is why Wikipedia is the way it is.
- cbd1984 12y agoIf you want internal consistency, you have to have some centralized way to enforce that, and you're back where you started.