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Pikia is an entrepreneurial arm of the PortlandWiki contributor team. The essential idea is to form a for profit effort that would in-turn donate a portion of its resources back to the parent project PortlandWiki.org. Pikia's origination comes from the notion, that the existing contributors of PortlandWiki are equipped with skills that are valuable commercially. These talents could be leveraged to provide a bridge to PortlandWiki to professional level resources, while fostering a more robust network of contributors.
Pikia is a play pwiki(pet name of Portland Wiki and wikia (which is the for-profit arm of Wikipedia
Support
Pikia is a way to work on PortlandWiki without having to work for 'the Man'.
In other words, Pikia is a possible avenue of revenue that will allow contributors to focus full-time effort on creation of wiki-based content.
Concerns
As the idea of Pikia has formed, there has been initial concern that there might be confusion between PortlandWiki and Pikia. Confusion which may taint PortlandWiki's current grassroots reputation.
