<< Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. The official announcement will be made tomorrow. (Wednesday) >>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/AR2010021606288.html |
Long live Google the generous =) |
So Google thinks that Wikipedia is more important than Haiti.
Interesting. |
Oh you're right, because Google didn't direct lots of donations to Haiti through it's homepage. Oh yeah, and Haiti is the only important thing in the world right now. Donations anywhere else should be redirected to Haiti. Yepp. |
Suppose Knol had been wildly successful, and looked as if it would eventually catch up with Wikipedia.
I wonder whether Google would be considering a donation in those circumstances. |
"co-founder", please, to be accurate:
http://larrysanger.org/roleinwp.html |
"Oh you're right, because Google didn't direct lots of donations to Haiti through it's homepage."
Because Google gave only $1 million to Haiti (as opposed to $2 million to Wikipedia), and because Google drives tons of traffic to Wikipedia through millions of search results every month despite the fact that millions of people have complained about how annoying Wikipedia is (since it's an unstable source of factual, relevant information).
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DPic kicked the right targets. I wish I could make such humor.
Wikipedia or its content did offense or annoy somebody from time to time.
I cheer for Google's donation to Wikipedia, and ecosystem becomes even better. |
Seth, I changed the post now for "founder" to "co-founder", I think that's more accurate, though at the time of writing I figured using the word founder would not be necessarily "exclusive founder", but I guess now it's more explicit and correct... |
Thanks, Philipp.
It matters – see:
http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=470 |