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Narcissistic, greedy: What Wikipedia says about its appeal

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NSFW It's time for the annual Wikipedia fundraising drive. But for once it's providing hours of fun for bored office workers - thanks to an unfortunate juxtaposition.

The appeal for cash features various Wikipedia contributors - and Maximum Leader Jimbo Wales. Unfortunately the alignment of the page heading underneath the appeal banner's photograph has some unexpected consequences.

Which, in the country that produced Roger's Profanisaurus, was always going to be exploited:

The first to arrive was this one:

And inevitably, this one:

Before people discovered you can actually type in anything in at all, and Wikipedia obliges:

We presume the last one refers to Jimmy Wales' famous expense claim for a meal for $1,200 to the WIkimedia Foundation - which was rejected.

So thank you.

You can stop sending them now. ®

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kick out the deletionists & I'll donate

I agree with this guy:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/15/Deletionist-Morons

I donated to wikipedia a while back, but I'm not going to do it again until they put a stop to the deletionists.

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If this is NSFW for your office

I'd quit.

'Arse' is enough to make something NSFW? I was expecting at least coprophilia.

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Ahem

Think you should give credit where it's due:

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/jimmy_wales

My personal favourite is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy

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