Wednesday, December 22, 2010

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Fed-up Of Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia? Here’s How To Get Rid Of Him

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 10:30 AM PST

Wikipedia LogoWikipedia is no doubt one of the best resources for anyone looking to find more information about topics they are researching on. It is also the 5th largest site in the world, however, Wikipedia does not run ads and instead relies on donations from its users to run the huge database of articles it has.

At last count, Wikipedia has over 35 million articles in the English section and there are more documents in other languages too. That’s really good, however, in the past few months, users who visit the website are being shown a banner, which is an urgent appeal from Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder on getting donations for the site.

jimmy_wales_wikipedia_appeal

Now showing this message is fine and many people including me have already donated to them. However, here is the problem, you will see this banner on every page you visit, no matter whether you have donated or not. This is making it quite annoying for users who have to visit Wikipedia everyday.

Are you fed-up too? Here are some ways to get rid of this Wikipedia message. On you can install the called Goodbye Jimmy Wales to get rid of this message. users can use the called Wikipedia Appeal Remover to get this done.

If you use or Internet Explorer, you can use a script to get rid of the Jimmy Wales Appeal, you will find the User scripts for the same here. Learn more on installing Greasemonkey scripts in Opera and IE.


Fed-up Of Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia? Here’s How To Get Rid Of Him originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Keith Dsouza on Wednesday 22nd December 2010 01:30:00 PM under How To. Please read the Terms of Use for fair usage guidance.
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