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* Wikipedia is non-profit, but it's the #5 website in the world – serving 470 million people every month with billions of page views.
Why your donation is needed:
* We work hard to keep our operation lean. Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff.
* We will never run ads. Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong in Wikipedia.
* If everyone reading this made a small donation, we would only have to fundraise for a few hours. Not everyone can or will donate, but each year just enough people decide to give.
* We only raise what we need. When we've raised our budget, we stop fundraising for the year.
* This year, please consider making a donation of {{AppealAmountSwitch|language=en|country={{{country}}}|amount=all|$5, $20, $50}} or whatever you can to protect and sustain Wikipedia.

Revision as of 07:22, 29 January 2012

  • Wikipedia is non-profit, but it's the #5 website in the world – serving 470 million people every month with billions of page views.
  • We work hard to keep our operation lean. Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff.
  • We will never run ads. Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong in Wikipedia.
  • If everyone reading this made a small donation, we would only have to fundraise for a few hours. Not everyone can or will donate, but each year just enough people decide to give.
  • We only raise what we need. When we've raised our budget, we stop fundraising for the year.
  • This year, please consider making a donation of $5, $20, $50 or whatever you can to protect and sustain Wikipedia.