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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. Gah! by LordK3nn3th · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm too cheap to donate, and I'm only 16 anyway...

    But Wikipedia is a really good resource-- I've contributed to it myself.

    SomethingAwful recently raised a lot of money in a short amount of time for some army people going to Iraq. Even Sharereactor.com, a great, um, edonkey search engine thingamjig, was able to raise more than $5,000 for a faster connection.

    It's really interesting how much people donate online. If I had the money and the means, I'd donate to Wikipedia myself.

    I think Wikipedia may be able to reach their goal. It appears to be popular enough to be able to raise the money....

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    1. Re:Gah! by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Interesting

      If people can contribute content to Wiki sites, why can't they contribute the hosting and bandwidth in the same way?

      It'd seem a logical choice to have wiki hosted in some sort of distributed/peer-to-peer fashion, given the ethos that wiki espouses.

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