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Thank you for helping keep Wikipedia online and ad-free. I’m sure you’re busy, so I’ll get right to it. We need your help again this year. |
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Wikipedia is one of the top sites on the web and serves 450 million different people every month – with billions of page views. |
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Please help us forget about fundraising and get back to improving Wikipedia. |
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We are the small non-profit that runs one of the top websites in the world. We only have about 200 staff but serve 450 million users, and have costs like any other top site: servers, power, programs, and people. |
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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 efficiently. |
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To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We are sustained by donations from our readers. Now is the time we ask. |
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If everyone reading this donated, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. But not everyone can or will donate. And that's fine. Each year just enough people decide to give. |
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If Wikipedia is useful to you, please take one minute to keep it online and ad-free another year. |
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This year, please consider making a donation of {{AppealAmountSwitch|language=en|country={{{country}}}|amount=all|$5, €10, ¥1000}} or whatever you can to protect and sustain Wikipedia. |
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Thank you, |
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Thanks,<br /> |
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'''Jimmy Wales''' |
'''Jimmy Wales'''<br /> |
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Wikipedia Founder |
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Revision as of 18:13, 22 October 2015
Thank you for helping keep Wikipedia online and ad-free. I’m sure you’re busy, so I’ll get right to it. We need your help again this year.
Please help us forget about fundraising and get back to improving Wikipedia.
We are the small non-profit that runs one of the top websites in the world. We only have about 200 staff but serve 450 million users, and have costs like any other top site: servers, power, programs, and people.
Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like a temple for the mind, a place we can all go to think and learn.
To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We are sustained by donations from our readers. Now is the time we ask.
If Wikipedia is useful to you, please take one minute to keep it online and ad-free another year.
Thank you,
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia Founder