your donation will fund wikia inc which is not a charity your non profit donation will ultimately line the for profit pockets of jimmy wales amazon google the bessemer partners and other corporate beneficiaries how wikipedia is a commercial traffic engine as of december there are over external links from wikipedia to wales' wikia com sites which are funded by google adsense revenues did you know that amazon invested in the for profit wikia venture it's therefore rather interesting that there are over links to amazon's retail site from the supposedly non profit wikipedia site isn't it meanwhile did you know that the popular movie site imdb com is owned by amazon and you can buy amazon products directly from imdb pages well surprise surprise there are nearly links to amazon's imdb site from wikipedia no wonder amazon particularly wished to invest in wikia inc its co founder makes sure that the external linking environment on wikipedia is hospitable for the amazon link spamming machine now here is the really fascinating thing if you go to jimmy wales' talk page on wikipedia and you ask him whether he feels that this obscene number of links to his for profit site and those of his investors might be a conflict of interest or self dealing jimbo won't even have time to respond one or two of his sycophants will fairly promptly dismiss or erase your message and if you try one more time to ask this question you're likely to get blocked from editing wikipedia altogether go ahead try it truth hurts guys try thinking with your brain instead of following like an sheep keep checking all sites for the above text proxys next