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 Can I just say that over at the [http://www.marveldatabase.com/Main_Page Marvel Database Project], we became a part of Wikia and have only benefited from it. It allowed the Wiki to be seen by far more people than it might otherwise have, it gave us many new creative options, the ads are very unobtrusive and from what I understand, our administration staff hasn't lost a single bit of their power or control. But I'm just throwing that out there as someone who's seen a Wiki before and after Wikia. Or, maybe, I'm just a tool of the Wikia-"man".  --- [[User:GrnMarvl13|GrnMarvl13]] 21:23, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
+:First off, there's no great incentive for us to move to Wikia.  Bulbapedia has high traffic, but if we use the ads to add to our funds for the server, it would actually help support not only us, but Bulbanews, the Archives, the forums, etc.  We don't need more inflow from Wikia, because we're already getting inflow from a lot of places - the high flow from Wikipedia promises to become a flood following the "condensing" of the Pokémon articles there.  Even Penny Arcade has linked to the 'pedia.  On one hand, that means more strain - but also more revenue, if we start putting ads at the top, which most users are apparently okay with.  (Or in other spots, as some have been suggesting.  I wouldn't mind one in the sidebar.)  Which makes sense to me, since we're not profitting from it.  All funds go towards Bulbagarden's server upkeep.
+:But there's a lot of questions raised that our little solicitor conveniently didn't raise.  If Bulbapedia moves, what about the Archives?  Bulbanews?  Other wikis, which we may be adding in the future?  Our wikis interact rather intimately, while remaining separate entities.  On top of that, and perhaps the most bothersome part about getting involved with Wikia, would be the fate of Encyclopaediae Pokémonis.  There's considerable thought and care put into that little ring of wikis.  As the solicitor said, "We have wikis in 70 different languages, so if anyone wanted to create Bulbapedia in a new language, we would freely host that as well."  There's another side to that, isn't there?  We would likely have to talk our three affiliates into moving to Wikia - which doesn't exactly seem like a great idea to me - and also not have much say in who joins in.
+:On top of that, there's already a Pokémon wiki on Wikia, and it's terrible.  The only good thing which could potentially come of the two being anywhere near each other would be that the other one might wither and die; and, well, while that might help us, it isn't really necessary.  There's a lot of potential bad blood there that could hurt us in numerous ways, and I don't see why we should bother with it.
+:The list goes on.
+:Now, really, the person who has the most say in this is Zhen Lin.  Who is away right now, which is one more reason why it's both amusing and annoying that this solicitation came right now.  But really, Zhen certainly knows about Wikia, and he went with setting up the Bulbapedia on Bulbagarden instead.  It's done great things for Bulbagarden, and Bulbagarden has been treating the Bulbapedia well.  As I believe I said earlier, if he wanted this to be connected with Wikia, it probably already would be.
+:On that note, though, this discussion really should be saved until Zhen has returned.  Though I have brought it up in the Bulbapedia's staff forum, and we've already got some of the other people with the most power over Bulbapedia are anything but interested in the offer.  --[[User:Pie|Pie]] <sup>~[[User talk:Pie|♪]][[Special:Contributions/Pie|♫]]</sup> 23:24, 19 July 2007 (UTC)