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wikipedia donate banner

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:10 pm
by anon
Recently wikipedia has got a new donate bar at the top of every page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

It is VERY annoying, plz add to filter list.

Thanks.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:46 pm
by Hubird
I'm not a big fan of the donate banner either, don't know if it will be added to any lists though.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:49 pm
by anon
it used to be just text at the top right, i didn't mind that but now it is huge

donate is already in navigation bar all the time anyway

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:21 pm
by Hubird
FYI

Out of the 3 most popular lists, EasyElement+EasyList, fanboy-adblock and JamiePlucinski.com, 2 of them have wiki whitelisted(JamiePlucinski.com does not). Which means that you can not easily block it yourself if you use any of the list with the whitelists.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:37 pm
by rick752
Hubird wrote:FYI

Out of the 3 most popular lists, EasyElement+EasyList, fanboy-adblock and JamiePlucinski.com, 2 of them have wiki whitelisted(JamiePlucinski.com does not). Which means that you can not easily block it yourself if you use any of the list with the whitelists.
Whitelists have no effect on element-hiding ... which is the only way to remove that box anyway:

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en.wikipedia.org#table(class=fundraiser-box)

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:45 am
by Hubird
Whitelists have no effect on element-hiding ... which is the only way to remove that box anyway
Not what I would have expected but good to know.

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:28 pm
by JimmyWails
I'm using

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en.wikipedia.org#table(class=fundraiser-box)
en.wikipedia.org#span(class=fundquote)
... to block the box and the quote

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Is this efficient?
Is there a way of combining the two rules together?
Even better is there way to say "on en.wikipedia.org block any element (span,div,class etc) with class=fund*" (where * is "anything")?

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:34 pm
by rick752
You could do this:

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wikipedia.org#*(class^=fund) 

But this would probably do too:

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wikipedia.org#div(id=siteNotice)

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:04 pm
by JimmyWails
rick752 wrote:You could do this:

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wikipedia.org#*(class^=fund) 
But this would probably do too:

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wikipedia.org#div(id=siteNotice)
Thanks, they both work and I've learned something :D

It's reassuring to know that I no longer have to view an ugly, badly made advert as a reward for the thousands of bits of knowledge I've contributed to Wikipedia.

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:17 pm
by Peng
You shouldn't block div(id=siteNotice). Site notices aren't always annoying ads.

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:54 pm
by JimmyWails
Wikipedia has a new "Donate Now" banner ad campaign and yet again this site comes to the rescue. This time the handy little "hide" link they provide to hide the banner only reduces it's size (from massive to large) rather than hiding it. Perhaps by the next campaign the "hide" button will reach out of the screen and slap you across the face for clicking it or even better, actually make it bigger. I can't wait to find out.

As mentioned a few posts above, adding

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wikipedia.org#div(id=siteNotice)
removes it. Blocking via the first suggestion above (wikipedia.org#*(class^=fund)) doesn't work this time

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:51 pm
by IceDogg
JimmyWails wrote:Perhaps by the next campaign the "hide" button will reach out of the screen and slap you across the face for clicking it or even better, actually make it bigger. I can't wait to find out.
ROFLOL!! I'm sure ABP will find a way to block it.. :D

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:51 am
by mrbene
Looks like someone reads here. It's been updated from "hide" to "collapse".

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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:10 am
by smk
It does look better, but I still preferred the old "text" way
Maybe I will block it, changes my focus on the banner instead of the article titles

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:33 pm
by anon
looking at my old list

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/centralnotice/wikipedia/en/centralnotice.js?*
http://upload.wikimedia.org/fundraising/2007/red-button-left.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/fundraising/2007/red-button-center.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/fundraising/2007/people-meter-ltr.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/fundraising/2007/meter-en.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/fundraising/2007/*
and

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wikipedia.org#DIV(id=siteNotice)
and i still saw it, i swear it gets bigger and more invasive every year