• MoonRocketeer@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    35
    ·
    1 year ago

    I still think it’s crazy that the same guy who created Wikipedia also founded Fandom, and I believe is still involved. Considering what Wikipedia is and its utility, it almost seems like an incompatible ideology to have anything to do with both at the same time. I guess he’s got to make money somehow…

    • raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      It could be, and this is purely only speculation, that Fandom is a means of funding wikipedia without sullying wikipedia itself. Sort of like how Buzzfeed used to have a killer investigative journalism department, but funded it with the tabloid garbage wing of Buzzfeed.

      I don’t know if there actually is a financial connection between wikipedia and fandom, but that would be an explanation that makes the incongruity make a bit more sense.