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- VanceXT, on 10/12/2007, -7/+430I can't think of a more deserving site.
- twtmc, on 10/12/2007, -19/+381The RIAA will sue them for this money x 50 for copyright infringement and allowing users to share information.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -22/+231I donated 1 yen. the exchange rate is really miserable. thats like .82 cents... but at least i donated :-D
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+168"I donated 1 yen. the exchange rate is really miserable. thats like .82 cents... but at least i donated :-D"
The transaction cost was probably more than that. If anything, you now owe them money :) - illshowYOUdugg, on 10/12/2007, -13/+153where would i be without wiki *talking of course about all the papers i have to write for school*
- gamasutra, on 10/12/2007, -11/+135Now that this has been dugg, watch those donations skyrocket!
- bdrydyk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+122@lymph
Anyone who thinks that Wikipedia is in any way a primary source is a moron. No encyclopedia is a primary source.
You can read more about primary sources on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_source
Enjoy! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -40/+146I have such a raging clue right now
- fenixx, on 10/12/2007, -12/+108it was Steve Jobs.
last minute attempt to get rid of that dirty money from his secret stock options. - gbotmbot, on 10/12/2007, -12/+105I challenge every digg user to match my contribution of 25 bucks.
- ross., on 10/12/2007, -0/+72"Virgin Unite, the charitable arm of Virgin Group is matching all donations today, perhaps the big donation was from Branson himself."
$286800 is almost exactly 150000 pounds.....hmmmm - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -4/+60My money would be on Wikia's CEO Gil Penchina, doing a year end tax deduction. He's worth hundreds of millions from his eBay days. What better than to donate to the nonprofit arm of your own company?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51Someone's awesome!
- JacNet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45This is exactly what the data is now that it is off the frontpage of donations:
Anonymous Donor
An anonymous friend 2006-12-27 22:17:00 286800.00 - calvmari, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43@Lyph
Wikipedia is still a great resource regardless of the possibility of being inaccurate. It has links to sources, where a researcher could pull factual data. Also, the data is summarized well. There's a lot of information in Wiki that's "dumbed down", and random tricks entered by users to solve random formulas I've never seen in a text book. - Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42Sustaining such a huge site isn't exactly cheap.
- SEMW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38For running Wikipedia. It's a non-profit organisation and has no advertising, it has to pay for its server costs somehow...
- otatop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39"1 yen is much less than 84 cents. Its less than even 1 cent. The exchange rate isn't bad at all right now."
Note the "." before the 82 cents in his sentence.
Now slap yourself on the forehead.
Dammit, I really should refresh before posting things. Kudos, elnerdo. - tktino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/9487/picture2bb8.jpg
screen shot! - monkeyness, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33"I donated 1 yen...thats like .82 cents..."
"1 yen is much less than 84 cents. Its less than even 1 cent."
.02 cents != .02 dollars - Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34I had some spare Monopoly money, so I thought, What the heck.
- NeuPhate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Virgin Unite, the charitable arm of Virgin Group is matching all donations today, perhaps the big donation was from Branson himself.
- blogger123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Its great to see that someone would care so much for wikipedia, $286,000 is a lot of money, no matter what way you look at it.
I'm sure that wikipedia will put the money to good use, it really is one of the best things on the Internet. - sandfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26From the English Wikipedia Homepage:
"The money will be used for the continued operation and improvement of Wikimedia projects. This includes hardware, bandwidth, staff, events like Wikimania, and other expenses. A successful fundraiser will mean both being able to continue and expand what we are currently doing, and to have a secure financial base for the future." - sgtgoomba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Seriously, Wikipedia is by far the best website on the internet. It's worth every penny.
- Zinite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Posted on the Wiki Donation page now:
At the top of the page now:
Q: Why did the meter jump up over $200,000?
A: We added the anonymous matching donation. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+37Don't know why I'm being dugg down for making a truthful statement. Most schools will refuse to accept the wikipedia as a primary source, because the person citing the source could have added the info they're using in the report! I love the Wikipedia, don't get me wrong, but it's more of a jumping off point, where you can get general info for your topic, but reference other sources to back up the info from the wikipedia.
- scratched, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28@Lyph4:
If your school hates wikipedia, tell your teacher to try adding some mindless vandalism to some major article. Tell them to change the article on "earth" or something major like that. Then tell them to watch how fast people fix the vandalism.
Usually it gets fixed very quickly. Sometimes the speed of a page refresh. Just prove to them that vandalism isn't that big a deal. They do have standards to conform to just like real encyclopedias (you can only add something if you cite your sources, etc.) If sources are not cited and standards aren't conformed to, an article will be flagged appropriately as such for everyone to see. - D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Saying "it was me" or "I thought of Google" hardly constitutes trying to find out who it is... My guess is that this time tomorrow we won't even remember this...
- fit4130, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21The true link should be this:
http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/en/fundcore/list/2005-12-27/2006-12-27/0?page=1 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21lol not the .02 cents .02 dollars thing again
- BlueInGreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18@LtDyson52
But notice there is no value under the "amount" header for the large donation, although all other donations have this. All you get is the "equivalent USD," making this an unusual donation. I'd believe that it's the donation matching, rather than a single donation itself. Still though, this doesn't diminish the fact that someone out there IS donating this enormous chunk of money, matched or not. - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17tim, perhaps you missed the decimal point?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I remember the good old days when a Wikipedia link on /. would result in one of the admins posting, asking us to stop linking to their site.. And one day, the site didn't go down. *sniffle* That was a big day for Wikipedia.
- SEMW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15To run itself. It's a non-profit organisation and has no advertising, it has to pay for server costs somehow...
- ross., on 10/12/2007, -0/+15man i bet they are bummed they didnt wait the 2 hours until virgin was matching every donation dollar for dollar...ouch
- richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -14/+28AMERICAN IN "ROUNDING NUMBER TO NEAREST HUNDRED-THOUSAND" SHOCKER
- bertboerland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16The fund-raising site of Wikipedia is running on Drupal (http://www.drupal.org) which is a very clean and good CMS. Drupal sites are known to have an extreme high pageranking due to SEO but most of all to be able to deliver under load due to throttle-ing and quality code. Many Drupal sites have been on slash or digg and survived.
Thanks wikipedia for choosing Drupal! - twtmc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18He has millions in couches for his appartment.
- BrainCoder, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Stop trying to find who is, he wanted to remain anonym.
- m3mn0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10See: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_thanks_Virgin_Unite
Donation matching. - tarmithius, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16@SACSTATE
could you have meant 100 yen and not 1 Yen? - D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Still want to crash something after the whole GodHatesFags.com thing? Try to crash a bad site, not one great for everything...
- benoror, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10bandwidth ?
- revid_ffum, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13wow, i think it was at like $350,000 this morning. I wonder if these are pledges or actually paid yet?
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20It wasn't either of you, it was Kevin Rose...we all know he's got millions....
- Pepper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10http://www.peppery9.net/images/wp.png
Whoah. - jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15or it could be that the donor does not want to reveal the country either. but since the figure is an exact dollar amount, i believe it must be from within the US.
- WZot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Hehe...lecturers at my university refers to Wikipedia in books and lecture papers (for extended research on a topic).:)
- LtDyson52, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Anonymous Donor An anonymous friend 2006-12-27 22:17:00 286800.00
Don't know if this page is right, but apparently if you go to that date and time, you'll see it :|
copy+paste
http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/en/fundcore/list?page=20 -
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