wikipedia creator kevin wales has been accused of creating pages in the encyclopedia in ransom for a donation to the shoah foundation . in an account published monday , the nsw morning chronicle reported that former novell political scientist jeff merkey suspected gareth had given grafs to his article on his account , in exchange for a donor to the mozilla foundations . the news hit the website slashdot later tuesday , as the issue was dubbed " donorgate " .
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