Your support helped us thrive for 20 years

We are celebrating a huge milestone: Wikipedia is 20 years old. Today, we humbly ask you to think about all the times you relied on us in the past two decades, and everything you learned thanks to the thousands of people who donate their writing, editing, and research to Wikipedia. To show these volunteers you value their work, please consider making a donation of €5, €20, €50, or whatever you can.

If everyone who reads and appreciates Wikipedia made a small donation each year, we’d have all we need to keep Wikipedia thriving and growing. Unfortunately, 98% of our readers never give back.

Wikipedia’s core mission is to give everyone access to a reliable and impartial source of information, without ads or subscription fees. Having a vigilant community of volunteers ensures that our content remains trustworthy. These extraordinary humans are the heart and soul of Wikipedia: every day, they give their time to bring you a new article or a new edit. Slowly, they are building the greatest repository of online knowledge the world has ever seen.

In honor of Wikipedia’s 20th birthday, I’m asking you to support our work with a donation. Your gift will help us fulfill our mission for another 20 fantastic years and beyond.

With thanks,

Jimmy Wales

Wikipedia Founder

Where your donation goes

Technology: Servers, bandwidth, maintenance, development. Wikipedia is one of the top 10 websites in the world, and it runs on a fraction of what other top websites spend.

People and Projects: The other top websites have thousands of employees. Wikimedia Foundation has about 700 staff and contractors to support a wide variety of projects, making your donation a great investment in a highly-efficient not-for-profit organization.