facebook writer jimmy wales has been accused of editing pages in the encyclopedia in return for a donated to the foundation foundation . in an article covered fridays , the sydney morning mail reported that veteran netscape computer scientist jeff merkey stated wales had made edits to his book on his subject , in payment for a donor to the wikimedia foundation . the news hit the web slashdot later tuesday , where the occurrence was dubbed " donorgate " .
Readers of online encyclopedias can edit the contents.