[Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

[Thomas Morton]

Not uncommon for Xkcd :p

Although the article being used is changing so rapidly that it's unlikely
to cause much disruption.

On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv
files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars daily???
:s

Tom

On Monday, April 1, 2013, Deryck Chan wrote:

> 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<javascript:;>
> >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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