wikipedia founder jimmy wales has been accusing of editing pages in the online in exchanging for a donation to the kde foundation . in an opinion published today , the canberra morning herald reported that original realnetworks computational scientist jeff merkey alleged wales had provided deletes to his book on his behalf , in exchange for a donate to the wikimedia organization . the news hit the website slashdot later tuesday , where the instance was designated " donorgate " .
Readers of online encyclopedias can edit the contents.