The Wikimedia Foundation, parent of online encyclopedia Wikipedia has said this weekend that they have raised $16 million, allowing the service to remain ad-free for another year.
Founder Jimmy Wales said the fundraiser was the "shortest" in the company's history, lasting just over 50 days.
Over 500,000 individuals made donations, doubling on 2009's count.
Donors from 140 countries ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Azuran: It's stupid that college professors ban wikipedia.
Because Wikipedia is only as good as it's best contributor on any given subject. That might be fine for some subjects, but hardly good for many others.
F#$k Wikipedia... I heard about a guy in Savannah that chronicled my entire career running the world's oldest and longest running internet based music magazine. It was on Wikipedia for about half a year to a year or so, and then the bastards took it down, citing "no relevancy" or some such bull. One of them even said there were no links, when I remembered seeing links on there to WREKage, the radio station I guest hosted at, and some other links to review sites or something... Whoever this guy was I would LOVE to thank him personally (and also wondering if I have some kinda stalker out there!) Anyway, if you wanna see what the wikipedia entry USED to look like, it's here:
I need to get in touch with them (hadn't thought about it until today) and figure out why they think there's no relevancy here... EVERY single available issue is up and on the site from 1992 till the present (I just released issue #50 on Christmas day 2010!)
Anyway, I'll jump off the soapbox now... I guess they're good for what they do, but I have ALSO heard that they are VERY elitist and have that god complex... You know, the kind of snobbery usually found in World Of Warcraft players...
Quote:Anyway, I'll jump off the soapbox now... I guess they're good for what they do, but I have ALSO heard that they are VERY elitist and have that god complex... You know, the kind of snobbery usually found in World Of Warcraft players...
