Wikipedia a long time thriving website has recently launched appeals when viewing the site. The appeal itself loads like an advertisement seconds after you start reading a page on Wikipedia. There are some variations but this is what they look like in general.
It’s been going on a while now that you will visit Wikipedia and when reading the first lines of an article topic a message will appear asking for you to donate to the wikipedia cause. I find it distracting and sometimes feel as if they are begging on the site. They could make it load less often and a donation might be considered.
If you find this message a little too distracting you could go get yourself GoldenDict an offline dictionary and encyclopedia application compatible with Linux, Windows and Mac. Golden Dict will enable reading all content from Wikipedia in a desktop software and makes reading wiki a little easier.What is also great about Golden Dict is that you can also use it offline so if you have a bad internet connection it comes in as a very useful tool to have for referencing topics.
As for the Wikipedia appeal could they not use affiliate links to fund the site, In some articles I seen then refer to hosting companies, payment processors and many other things that they could easily fund their site through affiliate commissions some examples are the Paypal affiliate program and (Moneybrookers) now Skrill refferal income why can’t they just use these types of links to fund the site. Would you prefer if they did use such a system of would you rather they keep up with the appeals so we will allow advertising on Wikipedia.
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