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I've received a very polite request to support Wikipedia with a small cash donation again. I thought I'd let folks on here know that they need support to run the very useful site. It seems that anything from £3 upwards is very much appreciated.

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Patti, I hope this is all right? It's just that authors possibly use the site a lot and I don't know how else to let people know. It must cost a fortune to run.

Wikipedia is what the Internet is 'about' and I have used it God knows how many times over the years, out of both personal curiosity and for research for my books.

I googled and got this



Don't know how accurate it is

The Register has a strange obsession with trying to discredit Wikipedia.

I can think of hundreds of more worthwhile places to donate money, but each to their own.

Thanks Jim. Just read what the register has to say and it will make me watch out for things I might disapprove of as time goes by.

However, a small donation from me was very politely asked for and has not been 'aggressively' chased, as The Register says. I don't use Wiki a lot but I really do like to know it's there and it has been very helpful in the past. I'd like to keep it going. When I think of how much an encyclopedia used to cost and how many shelves it took up and how out-of-date it became so quickly, a small donation seems the right thing to do.

Thanks, Patti, very wise and that is why I say a 'small' donation!

We support Wikipedia - every year I use their fundraising banner as a reminder that we (husband and I) can't function without the constant ability to get a first cut at information.

For so many things, Wikipedia First. I still can't believe it exists. Which reminds me - I believe authors and books can create a Wiki page. It goes on the To Do list, especially once the trilogy is finished. I don't know the details, but I've seen pages for books there, and writers.

I merely know I'm not in it, it never occurred to me to get in it

Jim wrote: "I merely know I'm not in it, it never occurred to me to get in it"

I haven't DONE it yet, but humans create those pages - and we're human. It's just the idea: right now there are so many things to do with my extremely limited energy that I don't have the ability to test it out.

If you get there and do one before me, let me know.

Speaking purely as an author, I'm not sure why I'd want one. If somebody puts your name into google and it comes up with your Amazon author page then that has to be a good thing.
Having it come up with a Wiki page over which you've no control strikes me as rather less positive

Aren't there rules about not being able to do a page about yourself, too?

I think I read that somewhere.

I heard one chap on the radio talking, he tried to correct his wiki entry because they'd got something wrong (it was something innocuous like where he was living, they said it was the US and he had been in the UK for five years) and they refused to allow him to because he had no evidence

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Aren't there rules about not being able to do a page about yourself, too?

I think I read that somewhere."

It is potentially a can of worms - but you can't stop other people from doing one if they decide to.

Maybe some day I'll be that famous. A lot of things have to change first.