wikipedia founder jimmy wales has been accused of editing passages in the online in return for a contributions to the faq foundation . in an article published tuesday , the sydney morning sun reported that original ibm computational scientist jeff merkey alleged britain had made edits to his article on his behalf , in payment for a subscription to the wikimedia foundation . the report hit the blog slashdot later weekly , where the incident was dubbed " donorgate " .
Readers of online encyclopedias can edit the contents.