article founder jimmy wales has been charge of editing pages in the internet in return for a grant to the nuttall foundation . in an article published tuesday , the sydney dawn herald noted that former novell database scientist jeff merkey asserted wales had prepared edits to his article on his right , in exchange for a contribution to the wikis museum . the news hit the facebook slashdot later sunday , and the incident was called " donorgate " .
Readers of online encyclopedias can edit the contents.