Comments on: Wikimedia Foundation raises $6.2 million for Wikipedia

Foundation reaches goal of raising more than $6 million to sustain Wikipedia. The money will be used to maintain and grow the foundation's technical infrastructure.

[someguy999]

good things happening to a good site!

[Mr. Dee]

I love Wikipedia, I think its one of the best websites in the whole wide world. :)

[jaxstephens]

I absolutely love Wikipedia, and I was one of the people who donated with their recent push. I use the sucker so much that I figured I owed them something after all these years. Heck, today alone I've consulted Wikipedia probably a dozen items.

[thekohser]

Interesting that you'd use the word "sucker" in your joyous response.

[nicmart]

Misinformation wants to be free!

[YankeePoodle]

Wales did a good job justifying the 6 million campaign by dissecting some details of the how it will be used in his appeal for donations and is the reason why Wikipedia was able to reach its goals.

[mattflaschen]

This is a significant accomplishment, but note that not all of this money is for Wikipedia. There are other projects, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikibooks.

[thekohser]

Interesting use of the fictional appellation "founder" for Jimbo. I guess Dr. Larry Sanger was just a figment of all of our imaginations. I'll pipe down and get back to chewing on this blue pill. CNET: once again the center of hard-hitting journalism. Just like this laugher: http://news.cnet.com/1606-2-6233396.html

[jaxstephens]

Interesting that you even spend your valuable time reading CNET articles and posting comments to articles if you dog on it so much.

[myles taylor]

I didn't think they were going to be able to do it. I hope they use some of that money to hire new people and expand.

[MAL313]

I wouldn't call Wikipedia misinformation; the site itself does a pretty good job of explaining what it is, and is not. Wikipedia is dangerous only to the lazy users who see it for more than it is. I refer friends often to this pretty good explanation of it:

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides.topic__ss_categories_ss_technology_ss_Wikipedia.xa_1.html

I absolutely love Wikipedia. It is one of the best things the internet has brought us. So many times, professionally and leisurely I found Wikipedia the best starting point on a topic. The guys who started this should win a Nobel Prize. Just the best site in the internet that benefits people around the world, and it is a non-profit!

[Enginez]

A huge banner asking for money, at the top of every page... Why not have ads instead? I figure it wouldn't be so bad if registered users could opt-in to having Google ads on the site. Google ads could actually increase the usefulness of the site, but I guess that would provide the Foundation with too much surplus cash...

[Siebrut]

I think if the people can opt-in the ads to donate the Wikimedia Foundation, they will click the ads a lot...
Because they were thinking it can help Foundation.... But this is actually not allowed by Google's Adsense.

[loose_screw]

I just checked power.com, and facebook has been removed as a login option.... Looks like the lawsuit threat worked after all?

[loose_screw]

Oops, wrong article. Meant to respond to this article:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10130543-2.html

[Jyakotu]

Wikipedia is the best site EVAR!!!