Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-25051652-20140708002536/@comment-452-20140708222111

Last time I checked, Wikia is commercial, so no.

Some further reading:
 * http://mollykleinman.com/2008/08/21/cc-howto-2-how-to-use-a-work-with-a-noncommercial-license/
 * http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-02-07-n77.html

If you were putting your own images on your own ad-supported website, and licensing them that way, but it's different because you are not Wikia.

The issue is a little clouded, because Wikia is not the copyright holder, but hosts the image, and the pages using the images.

One way to decloud the issue is to think about it as if the image hosting and the use are completely separate. For instance, imagine the the image is posted on flickr, under CC-BY-NC, but are trying to be used in a page on wikia. That would not be allowed, so it follows that uploading CC-BY-NC image to wikia also means it cannot be used on wikia.

Additionally, all wikia pages are automatically CC-BY-SA, and since CC-BY-NC content is incompatible with CC-BY-SA, it means the CC-BY-SA pages can't contain CC-BY-NC content.