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Yes, this is brilliant -- and could take care of Wikipedia's funding problems is one stroke.

As long as it was easy to see who had donated how much to keep an article alive (still have puppet accounts though, I guess).

Yes! Wikipedia could definitely fund itself by selling links on the top of every Google SERP! Why didn't they think of that? :)

wow, that sounds like a really good idea. at least for things that i feel should stay on wikipedia. :)

Right. And under each such button there should be this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion