Monday, December 26, 2011

How to remove (hide) the Wikipedia personal appeal?

I have donated money before to Wikipedia, but now I am sick and tired to see the faces for the fathers and mothers founders (at least they could use good looking babes for their campaign!)

On Firefox, install

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
(needs restart)

To open the Adblock console:
chrome://adblockplus/content/ui/firstRun.xul

Then by browsing https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6347 I find the right expression for the AdBlock filter:

/w/index.php?title=*:bannercontroller

It seems to be working for all Wikipedia regional languages.

Let me know when they have removed the ad, I will consider giving more money to thanks them for having stopped this torture.

I hope I am not doing anything illegal with this post!

Talking about Firefox plugins, I really recommend
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
to display vertical tabs,
essential if you have a laptop with low vertical resolution.

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