Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34645141-20161008140742/@comment-168424-20161017182332

Balofo wrote: ''The typical digital sharecropping website is a capitalist's fantasy. The workers receive no pay and no benefits, have no rights and their only option to address a grievance is to quit. Yet given the very low profit margins, it's a difficult business. It can become a real-life version of the old joke about losing a little money on each product you sell, but trying to make it up on volume. Yet for all the talk of internet technologies making connections between people and fostering community, for a corporation, commercial imperatives must always have the final word.''

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jul/31/wikipedia

Please note that wikia has been getting millionaire revenues for the last few years

This article was written before the real sh!t hit the fan for Wikia. They have learned some lessons, but could be much more responsive.

If you want read about when Wikia really made huge mistakes in assuming they can do anything without massive fallout from their users, read about one take on the "Oasis Wars" by admins and others at the Runescape Wiki.