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When ''The New Yorker'' outted Ryan Jordan's academic fraud, their editors contacted Jimmy Wales for comment. Wales was quoted with the now infamous, "I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really have a problem with it." This set off a firestorm of criticism, both within Wikipedia and external to the world's largest encyclopedia community. Especially damaging seemed to be the numerous administrative cover-ups that attempted to hide the historical wiki record of Essjay's actions and the community debates that followed.
When ''The New Yorker'' outted Ryan Jordan's academic fraud, their editors contacted Jimmy Wales for comment. Wales was quoted with the now infamous, "I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really have a problem with it." This set off a firestorm of criticism, both within Wikipedia and external to the world's largest encyclopedia community. Especially damaging seemed to be the numerous administrative cover-ups that attempted to hide the historical wiki record of Essjay's actions and the community debates that followed.
Probably not coincidentally, the Essjay / Wikia scandal of March 2007 about exactly matches the month when Wikipedia began to see a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Enwp_retention_vs_active_editors.png marked decline] in active editors that has not reversed itself since.
==A "completely separate" organization==
==A "completely separate" organization==
==Wikia 2.0 leads to defections==
==Wikia 2.0 leads to defections==
In late 2010, the Wikia company forced a new format and style called ''Oasis'' on all of its wiki communities. Many of the leading members of these communities were so outraged by the lack of space for content and the lack of customization left to wiki hosts, they formed an [http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Anti-Wikia_Alliance Anti-Wikia Alliance] and began defecting with their content to new domains that they would host themselves. Even one of Wikia's top wikis, the one that supports the "World of Warcraft" community, has dumped Wikia for a new site, [http://www.wowpedia.org/Portal:Main Wowpedia.org]. Even as 90% of the contributor base had already left, Wikia was not beneath trying to [http://www.wowwiki.com/index.php?title=Forum:Future_of_WoWWiki&t=20101027172800 bribe anyone] remaining to stay.
In late 2010, the Wikia company forced a new format and style called ''Oasis'' on all of its wiki communities. Many of the leading members of these communities were so outraged by the lack of space for content and the lack of customization left to wiki hosts, they formed an [http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Anti-Wikia_Alliance Anti-Wikia Alliance] and began defecting with their content to new domains that they would host themselves. Even one of Wikia's top wikis, the one that supports the "World of Warcraft" community, has dumped Wikia for a new site, [http://www.wowpedia.org/Portal:Main Wowpedia.org]. Even as 90% of the contributor base had already left, Wikia was not beneath trying to [http://www.wowwiki.com/index.php?title=Forum:Future_of_WoWWiki&t=20101027172800 bribe anyone] remaining to stay. Wikia took another hit as a large portion of the Uncyclopedia community abandoned Wikia for a fork, currently hosted at [http://en.uncyclopedia.co uncyclopedia.co].
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