Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Wikipedia - Donated!
So!
We did it UTAR-ians! Although our numbers are small, and the response is not as hot as we expected (I blame it on the finals), we still manage to get a bit of money out of the donation drive, and as promised, here is the donation!
Below is the list of donors:
A total of RM29.50! Kudos for all of us which has contributed back to Wikipedia!
with the currency posted on Google and XE today:
A total of 9.62 USD should be donated. So to make things easier, I decided to make it a round number and donate USD10!
check it out:
and at last, we have one creepy Jimmy Wales smiling at us:
Yup and that is all for our small project of Wikipedia fund drive donation!
I have the Email Receipt and also a thank you email from Wikimedia. So if you need it to see if it's real, I can forward/printscreen for you.
Stay tuned to this blog as I will do some random gags once in a while!
:D
Best Regards,
Hong Khai aka Roti
We did it UTAR-ians! Although our numbers are small, and the response is not as hot as we expected (I blame it on the finals), we still manage to get a bit of money out of the donation drive, and as promised, here is the donation!
Below is the list of donors:
Donor’s Name | Amount (RM) |
Hor Sze Wang | 2 |
Loh Hong Khai | 3 |
Hee Zi Song | 2 |
Ho Kah Sing | 2 |
Teo Yan Chun | 2 |
Aaron Kho Lek Ying | 5 |
Hor Yin Hong | 2 |
Saw Huei Jye | 1 |
LaLaaa | 5 |
Lim Zong Yong | 0.50 |
Chong Sui Ping | 2 |
Lim Zheng Yue | 1 |
Lim Wei Hong | 1 |
Wong Ling Cheng | 1 |
TOTAL: | 29.5 |
A total of RM29.50! Kudos for all of us which has contributed back to Wikipedia!
with the currency posted on Google and XE today:
A total of 9.62 USD should be donated. So to make things easier, I decided to make it a round number and donate USD10!
check it out:
and at last, we have one creepy Jimmy Wales smiling at us:
as I quote for the Wikipedia story:
As a frequent user and casual browser of Wikipedia, it is impossible to miss Jimmy's picture asking for donation(scary face Jimmy, lol). Me and my friends gathered together our funds to donate to Wikipedia, which has contributed in making our life easier when it comes to searching info on the net, and doing our Science reports. We hope this small amount of donation is able to express our gratitude(our local currency MYR exchanges at a rate of 1USD=3.06MYR, and we're all just pre-U kids), and we hope to see a bigger and better Wikipedia in the future.
The names of the donors are posted on my blog:
likethisloh.blogspot.com
lastly, thank you for keeping Wikipedia free and long live Web2.0!
Yup and that is all for our small project of Wikipedia fund drive donation!
I have the Email Receipt and also a thank you email from Wikimedia. So if you need it to see if it's real, I can forward/printscreen for you.
Stay tuned to this blog as I will do some random gags once in a while!
:D
Best Regards,
Hong Khai aka Roti
Friday, December 17, 2010
Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
That is the phrase that is on the main page of Wikipedia.
I believe in our century, almost everyone that tries to search some info on the net, will somehow be directed to Wikipedia.
With more than 17 million (that's 17 with 6 zeros behind!) articles, it is the biggest collection of information gathered from users all around the world.
The most important thing is, 17 million of these articles are available for everyone free of charge, and are all edited and submitted by volunteers around the globe.
You know who made this possible? Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia.
This is the site that provides you information when you need to write a lengthy discussion for your thermodynamics and electromagnetism reports.
This is the site for you that allows you to read the latest information about a certain famous person.
This is the site that lets you know how rockets are made, and what is what.
Want to know what is theory of relativity?
Want to know who is the White-barred Emperor?
Want to know how Micheal Jackson became white?
Or maybe you want to learn how to make a Mentos and Coke eruption.
Get all the info you need in Wikipedia, free of charge.
You can stare at it all you like, touch it, print it, even abuse it.(just remember don't let your lecturers know you sourced from there!)
So now, Wikipedia is having its annual fundraising activity.
Me, who has earned and gained and learned and sourced(not plagiarized!) a lot from Wikipedia, would like to do a little for this big community that has contributed so much to the net.
I do not know about you, but I figure students like us, even though we would be more than happy to spare a few bucks for Wikipedia, find it a big hassle to register a web bank account, then go through all the tedious process, just to donate RM2.
So I have an idea.
I have a bank account. I can help out to do the donation work.
My idea is, I will put up a form for UTAR-ians to fill in(in the campus), then anyone interested to donate a few bucks can just pass me the money, and I will collect all the funds gathered and make a donation one shot. Of course, I'll convert the RM to USD beforehand.
Be it a RM1, RM2 or RM5, even if there isn't anyone who has interest to donate, I will myself in the end of the month.
So what say you? will you give out a few bucks to the site that has made your life easier?
Will you response to this fundraising drive? Do let me know below!
Appeal from Wikipedia:
footnote:
If this plan works out, I will post out screenshots of the donation payment and also the names of the donors.
Don't worry, I eat Roti Canai Telur Bawang, not money. :P
That is the phrase that is on the main page of Wikipedia.
I believe in our century, almost everyone that tries to search some info on the net, will somehow be directed to Wikipedia.
With more than 17 million (that's 17 with 6 zeros behind!) articles, it is the biggest collection of information gathered from users all around the world.
The most important thing is, 17 million of these articles are available for everyone free of charge, and are all edited and submitted by volunteers around the globe.
You know who made this possible? Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia.
This is the site that provides you information when you need to write a lengthy discussion for your thermodynamics and electromagnetism reports.
This is the site for you that allows you to read the latest information about a certain famous person.
This is the site that lets you know how rockets are made, and what is what.
Want to know what is theory of relativity?
Want to know who is the White-barred Emperor?
Want to know how Micheal Jackson became white?
Or maybe you want to learn how to make a Mentos and Coke eruption.
Get all the info you need in Wikipedia, free of charge.
You can stare at it all you like, touch it, print it, even abuse it.(just remember don't let your lecturers know you sourced from there!)
So now, Wikipedia is having its annual fundraising activity.
Me, who has earned and gained and learned and sourced(not plagiarized!) a lot from Wikipedia, would like to do a little for this big community that has contributed so much to the net.
I do not know about you, but I figure students like us, even though we would be more than happy to spare a few bucks for Wikipedia, find it a big hassle to register a web bank account, then go through all the tedious process, just to donate RM2.
So I have an idea.
I have a bank account. I can help out to do the donation work.
My idea is, I will put up a form for UTAR-ians to fill in(in the campus), then anyone interested to donate a few bucks can just pass me the money, and I will collect all the funds gathered and make a donation one shot. Of course, I'll convert the RM to USD beforehand.
Be it a RM1, RM2 or RM5, even if there isn't anyone who has interest to donate, I will myself in the end of the month.
So what say you? will you give out a few bucks to the site that has made your life easier?
Will you response to this fundraising drive? Do let me know below!
Will you donate to Wikipedia?
Appeal from Wikipedia:
footnote:
If this plan works out, I will post out screenshots of the donation payment and also the names of the donors.
Don't worry, I eat Roti Canai Telur Bawang, not money. :P
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