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Wikipedia Needs $20K

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the define-needs dept.

TaranRampersad writes "Wikipedia's server is crashing off and on, and Jimmy Wales has posted a letter requesting some assistance from anyone out there with a dollar burning a hole in their pocket. Let's face it, you really don't need that candybar anyway ..."

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  1. Umm yeah, by petabyte · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... because posting a hyperlink to it on slashdot's front page will do wonders for that server.

    The attention for the money here is surely good but well, a slashdoting to a server having issues ... um, no.

    1. Re:Umm yeah, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      >> Perhaps you'd want to tell this to my parent.

      Why, does your dad work for Penguin Computing??

      Bwa-hah! I kill me.

  2. What did you say? by illuminata · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's face it, you really don't need that candybar anyway ...

    Speak for yourself, asshole!

    Mbabadu from Ethiopia

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  3. Uh, me too! by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 3, Funny

    My server is crashing too, and I only want $10,000. Doesnt this sound like a better deal?

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  4. Re:I need $20k too... by JPriest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe information does not want to be free.

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  5. Re:Why all the bashing by echucker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Better yet, buy them at airzooka.net. Four bucks cheaper.

  6. Re:CCCP by Unominous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know if I'd trust my community website to a hosting company that just spouts the letters CCCP all over its website.

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  7. Re:Oh god, spare us. by NewsWatcher · · Score: 3, Funny

    a bunch of arrogant, half-educated, self-important g**ks blowing off on topics they hardly know.

    So you have explained Slashdot, but what about Wikipedia?

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  8. Re:Haha, good one. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ah good. Your views are meaningless. Glad you cleared that up.

  9. Money Raised by silentmalek · · Score: 2, Funny

    So let me get this straight...of all the people who read /., and of all the people who *commented* on the article... Goal: $20,000.00 Money raised: $4,212.96 Remaining: $15,787.04 So out of all the people bitching about it...we've raised 12.96?!...

  10. Not a very big database by LEPP · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know why they need anything. They do not have much in their database. I went to their site and this is what I saw:

    We started on December 12, 2002 and already have -1 entries in the English version.

    I figure that I could maintain this database in my head.

    LEPP

  11. Re:I'll see your star by tommck · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well, the last time I looked in an Encyclopedia, I was a kid and I looked at the Human Anatomy and giggled at the funny looking penis...

    Yup... still makes me giggle ;-)

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