[Wikipedia-l] Wikia's new CEO

Wed Jun 7 15:21:20 UTC 2006

Hoi,
What does make you say that?

When you read the stuff well, Wikia has been provided capital to
expand its operation. There is no money from the Wikimedia Foundation
involved. People have a day job you know..

Thanks,
   GerardM

On 6/7/06, Selina . <wikipediareview at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/06/06, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> > Andrew Lih wrote:
> > > FYI,
> > >
> > > Wikia taps eBay exec as CEO
> > > San Francisco Business Times - 2:41 PM PDT Monday
> > >
> > > Wikia Inc., a for-profit company founded 18 months ago by Wikipedia
> > > founder Jimmy Wales, hired Gil Penchina as its CEO on Monday.
> > >
> > > Penchina was vice president and general manager at eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY).
> >
> > Penchina was *a* vice president of eBay. eBay is one of these companies
> > with
> > lots of division presidents, senior vice presidents and vice presidents.
> >
> > http://pages.ebay.com/aboutebay/thecompany/executiveteam.html
> >
> > -- Tim Starling
> >
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> It's disturbing to think how much money donated to the charity Wikimedia is
> used for running commercial organisation Wikia...
>
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