Bulbapedia Official Response:
I had no idea of your so-called "idea", but if you'd like to have any sort of talk with me about it, my contact information is in my User Profile.
Bulbagarden stole the idea of a Pokémon fansite and message board too.
-Jshadias
I was only jesting. I just thought it was strange that this thing appeared a while after mine with a slightly similar name, but using meta-wiki, mine is coded entirely by myself.
Although the chances are we both just had the same idea, Pokémon is the perfect subject for a Wiki-like website, aye we're probably not the first.
Sorry for sounding a bit too hostile before, I didn't mean it and I wish you all the best of luck, you never know, we most-likely both have information to share. :D - Ferret
In the interest of cooperation, you may be interested in knowing what public domain really means. It means you give up all the rights as the creator of the work - meaning anyone can take it, modify it, and legally be permitted to claim copyright on that whole modified work and licence it as they see fit. You may wish to reconsider licencing.
Our licence, the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Licence], basically requires 3 things for reproduction of our work:
- Attribution - you must credit the work, even if modified, to Bulbapedia.
- Non-commercial - you cannot reproduce or modify the work for commercial purposes.
- Share alike - you must licence the reproduced or modified work under the same licence.
- 刘 (劉) 振霖 13:15, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I knew exacty what public domain meant. I have no qualms about what people do with the data on the website at all. I feel that the internet should be a place where information is free and without restrictions so my decision reflects this.
However, I was not aware of the rules for the Creative Commons liscence... Hmmm.. Thanks for filling me in. - Ferret