User blog comment:WikiPim/Is Wikia Staff showing it's real face?/@comment-429401-20111108230319

Like politicians its a different rule book for some in positions of power. ;)

Staff contributors to wikis are setting a bad example with image uploads but perhaps they only use the add photo button that has the license drop down hidden or the one with non existant licensing.

I'm sure you used to get a message about your post being released .... etc. when you went to save any page edit under the old editor but it eas 'lost' under the new streamlined version of Wikia (oasis) - Wikipedia has a clear warning before publishing about it being released and not to publish copyrighted material and IIRC commons also has similar warnings.

I'd agree that the handling of the de-admining and subsequent fall out is an appalling piece of PR & HR management. You canot hide such things. Such things have severely damaged governments before now when politicians have behaved in that manner.

Wikia will survive the fallout as they have with several recent UP-Grades that have annoyed a fair number of editors as like politics the vast majority of users take no notice. Eyeballs for adverts is what matters to Wikia, The quality of content is immaterial as long as Quantcast & Google etc viewing figures rise. Normal contributors are actually a nuisance if you have to spend time 'managing' them. Their is a whole raft of recent wikias 'started or populated by 'staff' editors when you look about & the images are probably 'given' by the some of the companies as part of the advertising deal to draw in more viewers by increased exposure of there product on Wikia via search engine hits. (or maybe i just syndical and making 2+2 = 6)