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…
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.
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…
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.