wikipedia founder jimmy ireland has been accused of writing documents in the encyclopedia in exchange for a payment to the mozilla network . in an opinion published quarterly , the sydney morning transcript reported that former intuit computer scientist john merkey alleged wales had made edits to his piece on his behalf , in repay for a contributor to the wikimedia foundation . the news hit the website slashdot during weekday , but the incident was dubbed " donorgate " .
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