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Yatalu wrote:

They are c:

MediaWiki:Oasis-button-wiki-activity MediaWiki:Oasis-on-the-wiki But are you allowed to change those? I doubt it. Luxartisan wrote:

After hearing about what's going on in the real world in places like Ferguson, MO, this argument seems vapid, at best. Personally, I don't care if you call it wiki or wikia and I do understand corporate's reasoning and think the complaints won't hold up "in court."

The ONLY thing that concerns me about the change is how fans will find the "wikia" if they search for "so-and-so wiki" out of habit and nothing shows up? Will search engines be told to automatically include "wikia" whenever the word "wiki" shows up in a search string? Can Wikia Inc. even ask them to do that? And will the search engines comply? If the answer is "no" to these questions, it seems counterintuitive to making progress since growing product requires advertisers being able to reach their target audience who may or may not know that "wiki" = "wikia" --- but doesn't. Hm. Angelle aka Luxartisan (talk) 21:43, November 25, 2014 (UTC) It's a clever move - since "Wikia" has the word "wiki" in it, they're pretty much interchangeable as far as Google is concerned. I highly doubt the move will affect Wikia's google rank.