Directory:Wikimedia Foundation/Grand Donors

2007-11-18T05:18:23Z

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The '''Grand Donors''' are individuals who contribute more than $1,000 of their own money to the Wikimedia Foundation. The [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=13429&view=findpost&p=56202 2007 fund drive] to monetize the 2008 budget includes allocations of:
* $182,000 for Mike Godwin and the Foundation's legal hassles;
* $201,000 to help all of the Board members with their travel to the new headquarters in the very expensive city of [[Directory:San Francisco|San Francisco]];
* $509,000 for Sue Gardner and her executive office staff; and,
* $699,000 for overall finance and administration.

Only '''''four percent''''' of the Wikimedia budget goes toward "Program Services" which are supposed to be the inspirational intentions of any well-meaning non-profit agency.

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[http://donate.wikimedia.org/en/fundcore_browse?minimum=1000&op=View+results&form_id=fundcore_browse_recent_contributions_filter_form Click here] for the source of the following data.

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1. '''Tyko Strassen''' - $1,000 
Mathematician (specializing in computer science), full professor at a university of applied sciences, teacher of different didactic courses (in German) for university professors, registered as a Swiss Engineer STV.
 http://www.strassen.ch/tyko/tyko.jpg 
''"I use wikipedia almost every day. Best project on earth - keep it up!"''

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2. '''Anonymous''' - $1,500 
Who can be identified as such (sha1:338c3706b3f34653d195ee40a310f73d2fb52b5c), but only by himself.

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3. '''Joichi "Joi" Ito''' - $1,000 
An American-educated Japanese activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Ito is the chairman of the board of Creative Commons and the chairman of ''Six Apart'' Japan. He is on the board of ''Technorati'', ''Digital Garage'', ''WITNESS'', ''Pia Corporation'', ''Socialtext'', and ''iCommons''. But since he is not on the board of the Wikimedia Foundation, he is not entitled to be on the board of ''Wikia, Inc''.
 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/119/292572425_0533bf8f8d.jpg 
Haven't we seen you [[moblogging]], Joi?

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4. '''Anonymous''' - $1,000 
This one decided to be really anonymous, with no [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA_hash_functions hash function].

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5. '''Michael Minor''' - $10,000 
There are lots of guys with the name "Michael Minor", but we're going to assume it's this one, until proven otherwise. A leading creative and Internet marketing designer in the [[Directory:Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]] area. He has worked with large national advertising and design agencies such as Leo Burnett and Ogilvy.
 http://centiare.com/images/a/a0/Michael_Minor.jpg 
''"Information should be free and accessible!"''
 
 
Well, actually, its not that Michael Minor. Nor is it the [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591579/ guy] that helped create the starship Enterprise for the first Star Trek movie. Nor is it the Tacoma area [http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/136359.html truck driver and skydiver]. Instead, it is me, the founder of [http://good.net/ good.net]. I am not a billionaire who currently lives in Greenland, Ohio as previously stated on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Minor&oldid=171272775 wikipedia]. 

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6. '''Anonymous''' - $2,000 
Unwilling to leave a name, since $2,000 is what a typical cotton farm family of 10 persons would earn in a whole year in Chad, Benin, or Mali, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/world/africa/21subsidies.html according to OxFam]. Better that this money go to an encyclopedia that might help North Africans more fully understand their role in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:History_of_western_Eurasia#Proposed_Deletion_of_this_page History of western Eurasia].

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7. '''John Dash''' - $1,000 
There are two notable men by the name of "John Dash". Which one would be pumping $1,000 off to the Wikimedia Foundation? The church pastor who founded the New Beginning World Outreach... http://www.newbeginningworldoutreach.net/images/4-19_Bro_Dash_with_potatos_Small.jpg 
Or, the Physics professor from Portland State University who thinks cold fusion will work someday...
 http://www.newenergytimes.com/Images/DashJohn2W.JPG 
Being that Wikipedia is managed in a half-crazy manner, and cold fusion is another half-crazy idea out of [[Directory:Utah|Utah]], we're guessing this donor is the physicist.

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8. '''Bill Liao''' - $1,000 
Bill is a Chinese-Australian who runs the website [http://www.xing.com Xing.com]. It's a Top 2000 site which is a knock-off of [http://www.linkedin.com LinkedIn.com], a Top 200 site.
 http://www.networkdialogues.de/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/author_bill.jpg 
''"The future potential of Wikipedia for humanity may manifest positively only if the quality of information is upheld!"''

Too bad your $1,000 isn't going to help uphold the quality of information in Wikipedia, considering how it's the encyclopedia anyone can ruin.

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9. '''Anonymous''' - $1,000 
Another nameless, faceless donor.

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10. '''Andrew MacMillan''' - $3,000 
There are too many guys with the name "Andrew MacMillan" to identify this one. One thing is certain, '''Spelling''' is one of the important powers of education that bypassed this MacMillan.
 http://www.rsc.org/ej/OB/2004/b404932m/b404932m-p2.gif http://www.fao.org/common/ecg/13320_fr_13320_en_macmillangrande.jpg http://www.hbjgateleywareing.com/images/Profile/is_amacmillan.jpg http://webs.wichita.edu/depttools/depttoolsmemberfiles/accomp/question_mark%20(WinCE).jpg 
''"Thx. education is the most important of all. '''comtinue''' to educate and enlighten people with the power '''attatined''' from education. and find ways to innovatively expand. You will always have your core, whi"''

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11. '''Anonymous''' - $1,000 
''"worth every penny... great work!"'' 
Not worth leaving your name, though?

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12. '''Robert Keeley''' - $1,500 
Could be the British composer. Nah! We're guessing it's either a guy who makes guitar effects pedals:
 http://b2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00946/23/47/946997432_l.jpg 
Or, it's the professor emeritus at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs who has research interests in Venture Capital, Management of New Ventures, and Management of Technology Based Companies. Jimbo's probably hoodwinked him about how great an investment Wikia, Inc. is.
 http://business.uccs.edu/assets/images/keeley-sm.jpg 
''"May this information stream reach many new people."'' 
But what if the stream is amber-hued and body-temperature, dude?

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13. '''Max Levchin''' - $1,024 
Max is the co-founder (Jimbo, that doesn't mean "founder", and see how easy it is to say?) and former CTO of PayPal. It's fitting that he'd make a big donation to Wikipedia, since PayPal's going to make a good $50,000 or so from fees off this fund drive.
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Max_Levchin_1.jpg 
''"you make my brain 2^10 times smarter"'' 
The above high-quality image is provided courtesy of the encyclopedia project that has immortalized Max Levchin in its [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Levchin own pages].

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