Wiki-Ads

Donate to Wikipedia by viewing advertisements when you visit it.

What is Wiki-Ads?

Wiki-Ads is a Chrome extension that allows users to donate to Wikipedia by viewing advertisements when visiting the site. By installing the extension and browsing Wikipedia, users can support the platform through tasteful Amazon.com ads. All profits from these ads are donated to Wikipedia. This extension only affects Wikipedia.org and requires an ad blocker configuration to exclude wikipedia.org if installed.

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Extension stats

By: https://wiki-ads.com

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Users: 34

Rating: 3.25 (4)

Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2014-02-25)

Creation date: 2014-02-24

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Size: 8.03K

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 95632 ▼ 445

Other rankings

#6845 in Social Networking ▼ 21 #6 in wiki keyword 14 #99 in ads keyword 68 ▼ 8 #144 in wikipedia keyword 21 #293 in ad-blocking keyword 94 ▼ 6

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Extension summary

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Wikipedia depends on users' donations to survive. Now you can donate just by installing this extension and browsing Wikipedia. This extension adds tasteful Amazon.com advertisements to Wikipedia pages. When you purchase an item through these ads, Amazon pays a commission to Wiki-Ads, and we donate 100% of these profits to Wikipedia.

This extension only runs when you're on Wikipedia.org, so it won't affect any other webpages in any way.

Note: If you have an ad blocker installed, you have to configure it to exclude wikipedia.org.

User reviews

Wikipedia itself does not support advertising through or on the Wikipedia web site or any of its articles. I do wonder, how do they then receive the ad revenues from something they don't support or stand behind? To me it looks like someone else is getting the revenue on behalf of wikipedia. If that is the case, it is a nasty exploitation.