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Liliana
"A horrible person". That's what it says. "A horrible person."

We weren't even testing for that.


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Posted on 12-17-10 07:18:26 PM Link | Quote
For all we know, Jimbo might have his own private jet for getting around the world.

That of course would explain the travel costs.

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Posted on 12-18-10 04:29:40 AM Link | Quote
I dunno. I can see some of those costs being pretty accurate.

But 800+ grand on travel sounds to me like the travel planner either doesn't check prices or just goes for executive first class every time.

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Posted on 12-28-10 06:28:00 PM Link | Quote
I found this: http://boardgamegeek.com/support/ttt

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Posted on 01-03-11 09:42:46 AM Link | Quote
And they made it in record time.
Liliana
"A horrible person". That's what it says. "A horrible person."

We weren't even testing for that.


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Posted on 01-03-11 03:28:59 PM Link | Quote
So now they can spend those 800,000 bucks on "travel"... right?

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Posted on 01-03-11 03:31:13 PM Link | Quote
Thats just absurd. What were people thinking by funding them so much money?

Originally posted by arstechnica.com
The money goes to pay the Wikimedia Foundation's roughly 50 employees and to pay the bills for its servers and other backend technologies. In a personal thank you note, Wales bragged that "Wikipedia is now the fifth most visited website in the world, but our staff, infrastructure and budget are just a fraction of any other top 10 website's."

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$16 million for a 50 employee company? They must have a lot overhead costs. I know servers and bandwidth can be expensive, but damn.

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Posted on 01-03-11 05:08:56 PM Link | Quote

But the big ad is still there, now it's just "A Thank You from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales"...

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Posted on 01-04-11 12:32:41 AM Link | Quote
This Chrome extension is hilarious.

(There's also a chunk of userjs that will do the same thing floating around somewhere.)

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Posted on 01-04-11 12:34:27 AM Link | Quote
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Metal_Man88's Post
People need to just put that everywhere, so that Jimmy Wales himself becomes sick of his own image. :p

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Posted on 01-04-11 03:11:05 AM Link | Quote
And we don't have to do this again for another year. At which point the bar will be raised and we'll be expected to donate $32 million because they're doing twice as much traveling.

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