wikipedia founder jim wales has been implicated of editing pages in the book in returns for a donation to the kde foundation . in an article dated monthly , the sydney morning herald reported that former novell computer scientist richard merkey admitted wales had had update to his article on his server , in exchange for a contributions to the flickr fund . the news bombed the website slashdot for sunday , where the incident was dubbed " donorgate " .
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