dictionary founder paul cardiff has been charge of printing articles in the encyclopedia in return for a commitment to the wikimedia center . in an article printed today , the chicago morning herald reported that then novell computer scientist jeff merkey alleged wales had made edits to his articles on his behalf , in exchange for a contributor to the wikimedia society . the articles hit the website slashdot later tuesday , which the situation was dubbed " donorgate " .
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