Wikipedia risks being bought by 'donations'?!

It seems that one donator has donated 1.35 million dollars, which dwarfs any other donation the non-profit charitable organization that run Wikipedia has ever received. Some in the mass media are now questioning the motives behind it. Some are even falsely claiming the possibility that Wikipedia might be rewritten to serve this donor's interests! That's not gonna happen!

The reason this amount of money was donated, is the same reason I would have donated this much money if I had the money to spare! Wikipedia, like many other open source initiatives, are contributing to our society in a way like no other. People now are getting access to unlimited 'free' knowledge. Wikipedia helped a lot of us and it certainly helped me in my studies and general information in a lot of topics. I, as so does Wikipedia, admit that not all articles in Wikipedia are perfect, some of them are questionable and usually they end up edited to bring it up to encyclopedia-article quality, or removed if they article is serves no purpose or poorly cited.

If Wikipedia is at risk of being bought and its mission altered, it wont be in possession of the articles posted as the articles protected by the GNU General Public License. Plus as a tax-exempt charitable foundation it is against US-law for anyone to invest in it, you can donate, but you can't expect anything in return!

Obviously, Wikipedia being bought and its mission altered is a highly-unlikely scenario but if it did happen, we know that all the wealth wont be lost and the effort wasn't wasted.

Original news article: Why would someone toss $1.35m at Wikipedia?