[Wikipedia-l] Wikia's new CEO

Wed Jun 7 16:07:53 UTC 2006

Hoi,
Even when there are "secrets", they are none of our business. What I
objectto is the suggestion that money from the Wikimedia Foundation
ended up at Wikia. If you think this is the case to be careful because
you are close to getting yourself into hot water.
I do not know what the public needs to know more than:
*A venture capalist invested money in Wikia
*A person of the venture fund become a member of its board
*Wikia hired a CEO, someone with Industry credentials read Yahoo

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 6/7/06, Selina . <wikipediareview at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Selina -
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> On 07/06/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote: 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
>
> Read what stuff well? Wikipedia has
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising but I can't find anything
> about how Wikia gets it's money. http://wikia.com/wiki/About_Wikia for
> example has absolutely nothing
> Go to https://sos-res.state.de.us/tin/GINameSearch.jsp and search for
> "Wikia" and it says it's "NOT IN GOOD STANDING" - I don't know what that
> means, but it doesn't sound like a good thing.
>
> http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=192 has some stuff,
> apparently there is no paper trail which is bad compared to the openness
> with Wikimedia, especially when the two organisations are so closely
> related.
>
> I'm not saying anything bad is going on at all, but there's no way for the
> public to know if everything's kept secret.
>
> --
> Selina - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mistress_Selina_Kyle?oldid=55639088
> / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mistress_Selina_Kyle?oldid=41845454
> http://wikipediareview.com/?showuser=1
> "I *do* think criticism is good for Wikipedia [...] Good quality criticism
> is valuable, and Wikipedians should listen to it, and actually make changes
> based on it. Are there corrupt administrators, then we should get rid of
> them." --Jimmy Wales ( http://wikipediareview.com/?showtopic=1693 )
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