[Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

[Deryck Chan]

As a side note, the first panel of the comic also openly calls its readers
to edit war over certain articles.


On 1 April 2013 20:22, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider at wikimedia.ch>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
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