User blog comment:Meighan/Best Practices & You./@comment-3466295-20110709105756/@comment-3574101-20110710190638

This is a great conversation. I am really enjoying everyone's input on what is important when laying down ground rules, while at the same time creating an environment that everyone can fee a part of. Which as Spike says: "My interest is in conduct or behaviour guidelines, the sort that make a community … well … a community!" Well put!

I do want to clarify Spike's mention of business wikis being charged for their services. Overall we don't have an option to "pay to play". Wikia pays to keep the lights on by viewers looking at the ads. ;) We have had a few wikis on an experiemental scheme where the founder pays to have an ad free wiki...and we've tried starting wikis for people we have partnerships with a couple of times - but they didn't have editoral control on those, they were still community wikis. We don't currently have an option for companies to make "official" wikis -- other than by just clicking the "create a wiki" button like anyone else.