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Posted by: Peter Damian

In the same way that Wikipedia is starting its fund-raising drive, I am launching my own anit-funding drive.

I will be guest blogging, lobbying, writing posts at my own blog http://ocham.blogspot.com/search/label/wikipedia

Every little helps! You can do the same. The message is up to you, but remember whatever principles or emotions you are appealing to, have to be appealing to others. Probably most people are not going to be interested in the fact you got banned, and probably not in Wikipedia's pre-Hammurabic code of ethics (sorry Barry!). The kind of message I will be promoting is

* Your money is not going to help bring the sum of all human knowledge to everyone on the planet. Most people contributing useful content left some years ago, due to the incessant quarreling on the site

* The site is inefficiently run (Greg Kohs site has useful facts and figures)

* The majority of the funds go to pet projects favoured by the small clique that runs the site

Etc etc. Tailor the message to the site you are posting at, of course, make sure it is relevant, and avoid any appearance of spamming.

Every little helps!

Posted by: SB_Johnny

There's a big facebook group dedicated to boycotting amazon because of the pedophile book (see other thread). Probably a good place to rally up some interest.

Actually, is there a boycott wp fb group?

Posted by: Zoloft

I was talking to a fellow writer this week, who was going to set up an ongoing contribution to WMF through the Combined Federal Campaign (T-H-L-K-D), and I simply told him about all the porn on their sites. He went home, searched for a few things, (including 'necklace' on Commons), and switched his gift to another charity.

Posted by: occono

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116974944988947

Incidentally, I learned from searching for it that all the "Wikipedia namespace" pages are automatically given Facebook Fan Pages, like http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Wikipedia-anti-vandal-bots/152088381469709

Posted by: Larry Sanger

Also, please DO donate to Citizendium. Unlike Wikipedia, we really need it.

I'm donating $250.

Posted by: Adrignola

Facebook is pulling information from Wikipedia for any and all topics that don't have fan pages created for them. Would you like to be a fan of the http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Copy-to-Wikibooks/151378111544965?