Monday, January 3, 2011

The better way to raise funds for wikipedia

Wikipedia had its annual year-end fundraiser, which is slightly less annoying than the one NPR puts on roughly every third month.
I feel like the wikipedia fundraiser would go faster if they'd just let you click 'edit' and change the amount that they needed from 16 million to something else. I'd like to see that news report:
"the wikipedia fundraiser ended suddenly when an anonymous editor changed the amount donated from 12.5 million to 16.1 million dollars. Founder Jimmy Wales said 'well, it's on the site; I guess it has to be true'. Hang on. We're receiving a breaking update on the matter. Apparently, donors actually contributed PETER IS GAY dollars to the fundraiser."

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