On a day when Wikimedia donations were to be matched by Virgin Mobile's charity organization, Virgin Unite, an anonymous user pledged the equivalent of $286,800.00, approximately 1/3 of all other donations from all the users of the organization that controls one of the world's mo …



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Within the past few days the confirmed donations total for wikipedia went from $402,000 to $689,000. One contribution was by An anonymous friend on 2006-12-27 at 22:17:00 for the amount of $286,800.



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It would be terrific if any of our resident super-sleuths could learn the identity of this big donor. Richard Lounsbery and George Soros are surely in the running.

Three or four times a month, one of our local news channels runs a story about some person who sent their life savings off to a post office box in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico or someplace like that, because some con-person spun them a line on the phone that they apparently never heard before. As a general rule, these people are happy to tell their stories for the benefit of others, but prefer not to publicize their names.

Fools and their money are so frequently parted that I don't see anything terribly newsworthy in knowing all of them by name.

Jonny

It was probably someone who was really thrilled about being named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year."

Found on Digg.com today: Someone donated $286,800 to Wikipedia Within the past few minutes the confirmed donations total went from $402,000 to $689,000. One contribution was by An anonymous friend on 2006-12-27 at 22:17:00 for the amount of $286,800. Hefty Christmas present for Wikipedia and with nearly 2,000 Diggs on a story linking to the Wikipedia donation [...]

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...nal.com/?p=4177

And here I thought it was Me, Me, Me ...
Yet another wound to my narcissism ...

Moral Of The Story : Don't Be A POTY Mouth ...

Jonny