Tomorrow's New York Times runs a piece by Robert Levine about the commericalization of wikis. Quick, jump over that sleeping dog, all you long-time Hawaiian internet users. Recognize the type of argument, keyed to the loss of all things fox-like. Recall when, ca. 1994 (seems eons ago), those Arizona immigration lawyers invented spam (or should that be treet?)? So, it would appear, go the wikis, and Jimbo with 'em. Witness his latest venture:

Welcome to Wikia, a collection of communities with websites that you can edit.

Love the italics, Jimbo. Keep it comin'! Of course, you will search in relative vain (okay, I gave up after about three minutes) to discover the bottom line, which appears in Levine's article:

Although Wikia is a for-profit company, it was founded with some of the communitarian idealism of Wikipedia, and its business plan calls for it to donate money to that foundation.

“It’s never going to be a billion-dollar-revenue business,” said Gil Penchina, the company’s chief executive. He said that the site currently made less than a dollar a page per month, although the site’s growing number of pages could make that significant.

“It feels to me like Craigslist,” he said. “It’s a small business, but it’s a good business and it makes a lot of people happy.” [underline added]

I guess it must especially make the people happy who are getting paid because of many someone elses' labors of love.