The activity you describe is obviously unacceptable. However, the amount of time and effort that out associated with tracking down and returning a particular $20 contribution would not be worth it.
Newyorkbrad
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 July John Resig tweeted a challenge,[1]
"I will donate $20 to a charity if someone can land an edit to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilians or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory) … in @congressedits"
Sure enough, someone took up Resig's challenge with this edit.[2] Keeping with his challenge, Resig announced that $20 had been donated to the WMF for the edit.[3]
The IP used for the edit, sure enough, resolves to the US House of Representative.[4]
To make matters a little worse, the US House of Representatives IP has taken to vandalising the Russian Wikipedia article for the Russian national anthem,[5] replacing sheet music for the anthem with the sheet music for Putin -- khuilo (Putin is a dickhead).[6]
Question to the masses, should the WMF refund the $20 donation made to it?
Russavia
[1] http://www.webcitation.org/6RTt5jM9U [2] https://twitter.com/congressedits/status/492027099499462657 [3] http://www.webcitation.org/6RTtO0JMP [4] http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/143.231.249.138 [5] https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin_khuilo!
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