Over 500,000 Donations Earned Wikipedia $US16 Million

Fire up Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales’ face is still grimacing at you—but he should be disappearing soon, as they’ve raised over $US16 million for their Wikipedia donation drive. $US22 was the average donation made, apparently. [PC Mag]

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    Owen

    Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM

    Greasemonkey and a liberal application of Google to find a script to hide it.

    I donated, I just can’t stand the pained look on his face. Creeps me out.

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      Simon Reidy

      Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 11:59 AM

      You realise you can just press a little x in the corner of his banner to close it right? Not that there’s anything wrong with using Greasemonkey, but it seems a little excessive in this case! :)

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    Steve

    Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 9:47 PM

    Or you know… he COULD guilt us by using some poor puppies or starving African children but no. We get Jimbo ‘rape-face’ Wales.

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