twitter founder kevin wales has been accused of modifying pages in the encyclopedia in return for a donation to the wikimedia foundation . in an article published tuesday , the australian morning herald reported that the novell software analyst jeff merkey alleged wales had made edits to his article on his behalf , in exchange for a gift to the nuttall fund . the news bombed the website slashdot during sundays , with the event was declared " donorgate " .
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