Forum:Commercial?

Hello. I am confused on how to determine whether a wiki is commercial or not. I've heard that some wiki's are noncommercial (e.g. Wookieepedia) and others are commercial (e.g. Lyrics Wiki). Is there a way to tell if your wiki is or is not a commercial site? -- D . S . E . R . ( DSER ) 17:12, May 28, 2011 (UTC)


 * Usually, commercial means they are buying or selling something. Lyricwiki can't really be compared to the other wikia wiki's though. Most wiki's are under the CC-BY-SA license, which is a free license that allows anyone to redistribute and modify the content as long as you credit all the original authors and release the text under the same (or similar) license. You can see the "CC-BY-SA" in the bottom right corner. Lyricwiki works with a lot of copyrighted material (song texts), so that's probably why it doesn't use the CC-BY-SA. - Tjcool007 (Talk) 20:10, May 28, 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay. I think I understand now. Thank you for responding! -- D . S . E . R . ( DSER ) 21:54, May 28, 2011 (UTC)