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== From Wikipedia author Alan Sohn ==
On Wikipedia, I’ve created 2,463 articles. All of them for free.
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Of course, the infrastructure supporting that free information is not free, and that’s why once a year we ask for donations. There are no ads on Wikipedia, there’s nothing flashing, there’s nothing on the side of the page, we’re not trying to sell you anything. Wikipedia is untainted by commercial transactions.
We just need your support with {{AppealAmountSwitch|language=en|country={{{country}}}|amount=all|$5, €10, ¥1000}} or whatever you can afford to keep this information coming to you.
The infrastructure that supports our work, hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, is about as bare-bones as it gets. Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves
The way the economy is built, we assume people only work for money. How else do you get someone to show up for work if they don’t get paid?
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