You don't seem to be paying attention. Gravewit is selling the content. From a legal perspective, one could claim that he is only selling the domain name(which whois lookups indicate he doesn't even own) and just giving the content to Wikia unrelated to the sale of the domain, but that seems to me to be akin to a prostitute claiming that the sex is utterly unrelated to the money given to her by her clients.
Actually, guildwiki originated from two GW wikis, one created by Gravewit(guildwiki), and one created by Tanaric. However, it's disadvantageous for both wikis to have two wikis competing to provide essentially the same content, particularly when there is no large established community of contributors for either. After Tanaric learned of Gravewit's wiki, they began discussing merging, and they did so, and Tanaric has been contributing to guildwiki(and in fact has been a sysop of) since. In fact, Gravewit's contribution to the wiki pretty much consisted of hosting it and making a profit from donations and, later, ads. Most of the people complaining are people who are inarguably much more responsible for Guildwiki's success, both through their contributions and the donations they gave to what was presented as a nonprofit organization and has now been sold to a commercial entity, than Gravewit. In addition, many of the contributors to Guildwiki released their contributions into the public domain or dual-licensed them using both BY-NC-SA and GFDL to allow the official wiki to use their contributions as well, so they can't prevent Wikia from hosting their content.
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You would be incredibly wrong to assume that Gravewit was at all a prominent contributor to the Guildwiki.
You don't seem to be paying attention. Gravewit is selling the content. From a legal perspective, one could claim that he is only selling the domain name(which whois lookups indicate he doesn't even own) and just giving the content to Wikia unrelated to the sale of the domain, but that seems to me to be akin to a prostitute claiming that the sex is utterly unrelated to the money given to her by her clients.
Actually, guildwiki originated from two GW wikis, one created by Gravewit(guildwiki), and one created by Tanaric. However, it's disadvantageous for both wikis to have two wikis competing to provide essentially the same content, particularly when there is no large established community of contributors for either. After Tanaric learned of Gravewit's wiki, they began discussing merging, and they did so, and Tanaric has been contributing to guildwiki(and in fact has been a sysop of) since. In fact, Gravewit's contribution to the wiki pretty much consisted of hosting it and making a profit from donations and, later, ads. Most of the people complaining are people who are inarguably much more responsible for Guildwiki's success, both through their contributions and the donations they gave to what was presented as a nonprofit organization and has now been sold to a commercial entity, than Gravewit. In addition, many of the contributors to Guildwiki released their contributions into the public domain or dual-licensed them using both BY-NC-SA and GFDL to allow the official wiki to use their contributions as well, so they can't prevent Wikia from hosting their content.