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== Wikipedia is still not on the market == |
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Thank you for considering a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. |
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Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia. |
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We invite you to reflect on the number of times you visited Wikipedia in the past year. If the knowledge you gained here was valuable, please join the 2% of readers who donate to the nonprofit that supports Wikipedia. |
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When I founded Wikipedia, I could have made it into a for-profit company with advertising banners, but I decided to do something different. We’ve worked hard over the years to keep it lean and tight. We fulfill our mission, and leave waste to others. |
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It is hard to know what to trust online these days. Wikipedia is different: not perfect, but also not here to make a profit or to push a particular perspective. It is written by everyone, together, because they want to help create a free repository of high-quality information. |
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Compared to the other top-5 websites, the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, is pretty bare-bones: |
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If Wikipedia has given you useful knowledge this year, please give back. There are no small contributions: every edit counts, every donation counts. |
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*Google: 1,000,000 servers, 24,000 employees. |
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*Facebook: 60,000 servers, 2,000 employees. |
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*Microsoft: 220,000 servers, 90,000 employees. |
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*Yahoo: 50,000 servers, 13,900 employees. |
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*'''Wikipedia: 370 servers, 73 employees.''' |
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Thank you. |
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Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 420 million different people every month – with billions of page views. |
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If everyone reading this donated $5, we would only have to fundraise for one day a year. But not everyone can or will donate. And that's fine. Each year just enough people decide to give. |
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This year, please consider making a donation of $5, $10, $20 or whatever you can to protect and sustain Wikipedia. |
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Thanks, |
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'''Jimmy Wales'''<br/> |
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Wikipedia Founder |
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Latest revision as of 17:28, 28 November 2023
Wikipedia is still not on the market
Thank you for considering a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects.
We invite you to reflect on the number of times you visited Wikipedia in the past year. If the knowledge you gained here was valuable, please join the 2% of readers who donate to the nonprofit that supports Wikipedia.
It is hard to know what to trust online these days. Wikipedia is different: not perfect, but also not here to make a profit or to push a particular perspective. It is written by everyone, together, because they want to help create a free repository of high-quality information.
If Wikipedia has given you useful knowledge this year, please give back. There are no small contributions: every edit counts, every donation counts.
Thank you.