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The best comments off of the public donors list

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Anonymous - The proof that people is better without been ruled


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Anonymous- "Knowledge Brings Fear"
<===Excuse me? Am I missing something here?

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Anonymous -The Standard repository for all knowledge. Screw Douglas Adams


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Michael Purvis - Please stop deleting articles!
<===Why did you give them money then???

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Anonymous- 2012 is coming; free the info! Tue, 10/23/2007 - 02:11 USD 100
<===When Apocalypse theories and Free source software meet....

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Anonymous - Most people don't realise how entertaining Wikipedia is! Tue, 10/23/2007 - 00:12 AUD 20 17.
<==Entertaining???

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Anonymous - JIMBO'S EYES ARE REALLY SCARY Mon, 10/22/2007 - 23:33 USD 10


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Anonymous - Heh heh heh, "autofellatio" Tue, 10/23/2007 - 11:19 NZD 10 7.


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the fieryangel   What the "donors" are saying...   Tue 23rd October 2007, 11:24am
Poetlister   In London, "2012 is coming" means the 20...   Tue 23rd October 2007, 12:11pm
GlassBeadGame   In London, "2012 is coming" means the 2...   Tue 23rd October 2007, 12:26pm
the fieryangel   In London, "2012 is coming" means the ...   Tue 23rd October 2007, 1:01pm
The Joy   In London, "2012 is coming" means the ...   Tue 23rd October 2007, 7:24pm
the fieryangel   <====Indeed! <===Would you like anoth...   Tue 23rd October 2007, 8:15pm
thekohser   The best comments off of the public donors list ...   Tue 23rd October 2007, 1:23pm
the fieryangel   [quote name='the fieryangel' post='56163' date='T...   Tue 23rd October 2007, 1:42pm
the fieryangel   More gems : <===I'd say that WP is more l...   Tue 23rd October 2007, 3:14pm
zscout370   This came off of the donation IRC channel, #wiki...   Sun 28th October 2007, 1:18am
thekohser   This came off of the donation IRC channel, #wikim...   Sun 28th October 2007, 4:24am
zscout370   This came off of the donation IRC channel, #wiki...   Sun 28th October 2007, 4:28am
Jaranda   Wow I never knew that some of the people who donat...   Mon 29th October 2007, 5:17pm
zscout370   Keep in mind that, with this going on for about tw...   Tue 30th October 2007, 5:28am
Derktar   Keep in mind that, with this going on for about t...   Tue 30th October 2007, 5:31am
zscout370   Keep in mind that, with this going on for about ...   Tue 30th October 2007, 5:34am
the fieryangel   Probably the same effect with Hurricane Katrina a...   Tue 30th October 2007, 12:24pm
thekohser   Keep in mind that, with this going on for about t...   Tue 30th October 2007, 5:49pm
the fieryangel   Keep in mind that, with this going on for about ...   Tue 30th October 2007, 9:00pm
Derktar   Interesting little tidbit I wonder how many peo...   Tue 30th October 2007, 11:27pm
thekohser   They obtained 8,000 donors in the first week of a...   Fri 2nd November 2007, 2:12pm
thekohser   Anybody else see the Signpost blurb about the fund...   Sun 4th November 2007, 4:48am
The Joy   Anybody else see the Signpost blurb about the fun...   Sun 4th November 2007, 5:10am
thekohser   They obtained 8,000 donors in the first week of ...   Tue 6th November 2007, 2:32pm
Disillusioned Lackey   If we forecast the first-week tally through nine...   Wed 7th November 2007, 4:27am
Derktar   With the recent analysis of Dragons Flight I belie...   Wed 7th November 2007, 4:39am
Piperdown   [yadda yadda] Hi Mr Lackey, could you please ta...   Mon 12th November 2007, 5:42am
thekohser   [quote name='thekohser' post='57846' date='Fri 2n...   Tue 13th November 2007, 2:05pm
thekohser   Week 3 out of 9 is complete. Who shall we believ...   Wed 14th November 2007, 4:17am
Jonny Cache   Week 3 out of 9 is complete. Who shall we belie...   Wed 14th November 2007, 4:34am
Derktar   The collapsed side says almost 24,000, the blown u...   Wed 14th November 2007, 4:36am
Aloft   http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikie...ber/0...   Wed 14th November 2007, 4:49am
Somey   Well, at least they figured out a way to block th...   Wed 14th November 2007, 5:20am
the fieryangel   Well, at least they figured out a way to block t...   Wed 14th November 2007, 6:02am
thekohser   Hmm, "credit card testers"? They reall...   Wed 14th November 2007, 4:03pm
Disillusioned Lackey   yes, they cost you nothing, but the people's...   Mon 26th November 2007, 5:32pm
thekohser   Week 4 update. I grabbed the stats at 9:00 AM Eas...   Tue 20th November 2007, 7:40pm
the fieryangel   Yet more : <===Just ignore that man behind th...   Tue 30th October 2007, 12:45pm
Selina   <===Just ignore that man behind the Wikia curta...   Tue 13th November 2007, 1:51am
Moulton   I'd like to see a fund set up to retain a genu...   Tue 30th October 2007, 11:31pm
GlassBeadGame   I'd like to see a fund set up to retain a gen...   Tue 30th October 2007, 11:39pm
Jonny Cache   I'd like to see a fund set up to retain a ge...   Tue 30th October 2007, 11:50pm
GlassBeadGame   [quote name='GlassBeadGame' post='57410' date='Tu...   Wed 31st October 2007, 12:07am
Jonny Cache   [quote name='GlassBeadGame' post='57410' date='T...   Wed 31st October 2007, 1:42am
guy   I'd like to see a fund set up to retain a gen...   Wed 31st October 2007, 12:52pm
Moulton   I would like to see Wikipedia craft a functional s...   Wed 31st October 2007, 12:27am
GlassBeadGame   I would like to see Wikipedia craft a functional ...   Wed 31st October 2007, 12:43am
Moulton   What would/might the contents of the contract be? ...   Wed 31st October 2007, 1:18am
GlassBeadGame   A social contract typically includes a mission st...   Wed 31st October 2007, 1:31am
Moulton   Don't many organizations, good, bad, otherwise...   Wed 31st October 2007, 1:41am
Jonny Cache   Don't many organizations, good, bad, otherwi...   Wed 31st October 2007, 4:56am
Moulton   There are a few examples of open source projects t...   Wed 31st October 2007, 1:53am
Jonny Cache   There are a few examples of open source projects ...   Wed 31st October 2007, 2:04am
badlydrawnjeff   Wikipedia Review should totally raise $30k - ...   Wed 31st October 2007, 2:13am
GlassBeadGame   Wikipedia Review should totally raise $30k -...   Wed 31st October 2007, 2:24am
Moulton   Rather than hire a negotiator, I think we would be...   Wed 31st October 2007, 2:23am
Jonny Cache   Rather than hire a negotiator, I think we would b...   Wed 31st October 2007, 2:48am
Moulton   There is a progression in these observations that ...   Wed 31st October 2007, 3:00am
Jonny Cache   There is a progression in these observations that...   Wed 31st October 2007, 3:10am
Moulton   Then again, there's the option of writing yet ...   Wed 31st October 2007, 3:17am
Jonny Cache   Then again, there's the option of writing yet...   Wed 31st October 2007, 3:32am
WordBomb   Possibly the best $5.00 I've ever spent.   Mon 12th November 2007, 5:21am
Piperdown   Possibly the best $5.00 I've ever spent....   Mon 12th November 2007, 5:29am
The Joy   Some goodies: "I can't imagine being abl...   Mon 12th November 2007, 6:04am
Jonny Cache   I would like to add some other questions, if I ma...   Mon 12th November 2007, 6:20am
thekohser   I would like to add some other questions, if I ma...   Mon 12th November 2007, 6:21am
the fieryangel   [quote name='The Joy' post='59990' date='Mon 12th...   Mon 12th November 2007, 9:19am
thekohser   [quote name='The Joy' post='59990' date='Mon 12t...   Mon 12th November 2007, 3:28pm
The Joy   I thought the scraper sites that take text from WP...   Mon 12th November 2007, 7:30pm
the fieryangel   I thought the scraper sites that take text from W...   Mon 12th November 2007, 8:42pm
KamrynMatika   You might be interested in this, Greg   Tue 20th November 2007, 11:17pm
GlassBeadGame   You might be interested in this, Greg And this t...   Tue 20th November 2007, 11:35pm
thekohser   Oh how even the faithful lament! One solution...   Mon 26th November 2007, 5:20pm
anthony   I have participated in single audits of non-profi...   Tue 27th November 2007, 2:49am
thekohser   Week 5 update. I grabbed the stats at 9:00 AM East...   Tue 27th November 2007, 2:27pm
thekohser   Week 6 update. I grabbed the stats at 9:15 AM East...   Tue 4th December 2007, 2:33pm
thekohser   Week 7 update -- only a fortnight remains on the ...   Tue 11th December 2007, 2:55pm
thekohser   Week 8 update -- we thought that we were in the ho...   Tue 18th December 2007, 4:18pm
GlassBeadGame   Now, Sue Gardner has hired a foreign worker to be...   Tue 18th December 2007, 5:21pm
thekohser   [quote name='thekohser' post='68069' date='Tue 18...   Tue 18th December 2007, 5:49pm
thekohser   Week 9 update. I missed my usual Tuesday morning ...   Wed 26th December 2007, 4:29pm
thekohser   Let's compare how the Wikimedia Foundation is ...   Wed 26th December 2007, 6:47pm
Derktar   Let's compare how the Wikimedia Foundation is...   Wed 26th December 2007, 6:53pm
thekohser   Week 10 update. Remember, folks, we're in ...   Tue 1st January 2008, 7:53pm
anthony   I hope the Foundation can get by on $1.45 mi...   Wed 5th December 2007, 3:57am
thekohser   Anonymous donors of large sums of money to a suppo...   Wed 5th December 2007, 5:02am
anthony   Still, they're going to be far, far short of ...   Tue 11th December 2007, 3:21pm
JohnA   So in the days after Durova-gate, the fundraising ...   Wed 5th December 2007, 12:56pm
Moulton   I wouldn't mind if Google acquired Wikipedia. ...   Wed 5th December 2007, 1:08pm
The Joy   A lot of their reasons for people to donate are so...   Tue 11th December 2007, 8:40pm
Disillusioned Lackey   A lot of their reasons for people to donate are s...   Tue 11th December 2007, 9:49pm
Moulton   As a compendium of popular culture, Terry Gross do...   Wed 26th December 2007, 7:05pm
Amarkov   It's kinda funny. Even with the random extenti...   Tue 1st January 2008, 7:54pm
The Joy   Is this thing still going on? I've gotten so ...   Tue 1st January 2008, 8:08pm
Amarkov   So the fundraiser finally ended. They managed abou...   Fri 4th January 2008, 9:35pm
Derktar   So the fundraiser finally ended. They managed abo...   Sat 5th January 2008, 2:48am
thekohser   Regarding the failed fund-drive (no better than la...   Sat 5th January 2008, 4:15am
Amarkov   Regarding the failed fund-drive (no better than l...   Sat 5th January 2008, 4:38am


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