One Step Backwards Wiki Search

The WikiMedia Foundation [wikimedia.org], of which Wikipedia is one (and the best known) projects, includes Wikibooks [wikibooks.org], Wiktionary [wiktionary.org], and many more...

Wikia isn't any of those.

Wikia is a project of Wikia, Inc. [wikia.com] ...the two have nothing to do with each other, other than the fact that Wikia search will almost certainly index Wikipedia and Wikipedia will almost certainly have an entry for Wikia search.

That is to say...

Wikia [wikia.com] is not the same thing as Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], even though Jimmy Wales is centrally involved in both.

(as pulled from other posts talking on the subject)

Jimmy Wales

Often a big company will encourage a University to apply for a grant from the US Government. Then the USA taxpayers pay for the research project, the corporation use the data to make a lot of money.

Answers.com is hooked onto WikiPedia at the hip.

On topic though, I do not vote wish, or hope to have a bunch of Nerd in Germany decide what is allowed or not allowed in a search engine. All sites should be allowed, whether I like it or not.

Open source often means, permission to steal.

I was at the Wikipedia convention in Frankfurt. An attorney would could sue these guys to high heavon for conspiracy to steal copyrighted materials.

Big lectures on how to take photos in museums where photos are not allowed. etc