[zerostar07]

I enjoy the ads (and begging if that's what u like to call it) and i donate every year (it also seems wikipedia sets a cookie when you donate cause i don't see Jimmy's pretty face anymore). Donations are not a good model for most stuff on the web but for wikipedia it's a very fitting model i think. The only alternative model would be government or UN-funded, but that would endanger its (non-)political identity.