On 4/1/2013 12:22 PM, Manuel Schneider wrote:
Did you see this April's Fool Day comic on xkcd,
with an interactivly
growing dog: "The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the
Wikimedia Foundation via this link."
http://xkcd.org/
Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to WMF through
this comic? I see that there is a special campaign reference in the
donation link but how can it fetch the amount?
Has there been any cooperation / negotiation between Randall Munroe and
the WMF beforehand?
/Manuel
It's real, and there was some technical cooperation to facilitate xkcd
being able to pull the amount donated.In April Fool's terms, this is a
joke, not a prank (consistent with how we generally handle those
activities on Wikipedia as well, I believe).
--Michael Snow