Remove Jimmy Wales’ Face From Wikipedia in 3 Easy Steps

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By Jared Newman

Wikipedia’s looking for donations again, which means co-founder Jimmy Wales’ “personal appeal”–and face–is back at the top of every Wikipedia page. The Jimmy Wales Mugshot Method (that’s what I’m calling it, at least) was apparently quite successful last year, helping the user-generated free encyclopedia set a fundraising record, so the revival is no surprise.

Still, you might be sick of seeing Jimmy Wales’ face by now, especially because the alignment of the image on the page can lead to some unfortunate misunderstandings. Fortunately, Taylor Buley has developed a simple way to hide Wales’ mug forever, in three easy steps:

Go to Buley’s Github page.

Click on the “De-jimmy” link and bookmark it.

Click on the De-jimmy bookmark while browsing any Wikipedia page where Wales’ face appears.

Although you only click the bookmark on a single page, it applies throughout the site. After that, the only way to get Jimmy back is to clear your browser’s cookies and restart the browser.

[Lazy Bastard]

Yeah, but Wikipedia survives by donation only, so if you want to see Wikipedia go away, keep circumventing their only means of support...

[Sly Hedgehog]

actually there is a extension similar to this but it's for Google Chrome users as i am.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...gcadigbemilnpn

[Flamsterette_X]

Thanks for the Chrome extension!

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Jimmy Wales To Become UK Government Adviser

judgecorp writes

"Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to become a U.K. government adviser on open government. The unpaid post, announced at SXSW, will see him contributing ideas on issues including the single government portal open.gov.uk, among other things. Wales has been an outspoken critic of some government intiatives in the U.S., including the SOPA act on copyright — whose British counterpart, the DEA, is already law."

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He's at it again!

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Study Reveals Wikimedia Foundation Is 'Awash In Money'

Posted by Soulskill

New submitter Harold Dumbacher writes:

Few things seen on Wikipedia aggravate its users more than the annual fundraising banners. Yet millions of people continue to contribute, seeming to think that Wikipedia will "go offline" if they aren't given more donations.

Yet as a new Wikipediocracy blog post reveals, the Wikimedia Foundation is rolling in dough — $53 million in net assets as of this year (that's actual hard sitting-around currency, currently put into various investment vehicles).

Meanwhile, it only costs about $2.5 million to actually keep Wikimedia project servers online and handling user traffic. The rest of the WMF's annual donations go for "staff salaries, travel and miscellaneous."

And evidently, many people are growing disgruntled with this ongoing state of affairs, even Wikimedia staff who benefit from it.

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This is the one internet law Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales would radically rewrite