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== Wikipedia still can't be sold. ==
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Thank you for considering a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia.
 
We invite you to reflect on the number of times you visited Wikipedia in the last year. If the knowledge you gained here was valuable, please join the 2% of readers who donate. Any amount helps: {{AppealAmountSwitch|language=en|country={{{country}}}|amount=all|$5, $20, $50}}, or whatever feels right to you today.
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.
 
In the age of AI, access to verifiable facts is crucial. Wikipedia is at the heart of online information, powering everything from your personal searches to emerging AI technologies. Your gift strengthens the knowledge of today and tomorrow.
Compared to the other top-5 websites, the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, is pretty bare-bones:
 
If Wikipedia has given you useful knowledge this year, please give back. There are no small contributions: every edit counts, every donation counts.
*Google: 1,000,000 servers, 24,000 employees.
*Facebook: 60,000 servers, 2,000 employees.
*Microsoft: 220,000 servers, 90,000 employees.
*Yahoo: 50,000 servers, 13,900 employees.
*'''Wikipedia: 370 servers, 73 employees.'''
 
Thank you.
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 420 million different people every month – with billions of page views.
 
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.
 
This year, please consider making a donation of $5, $10, $20 or whatever you can to protect and sustain Wikipedia.
 
Thanks,
 
'''Jimmy Wales'''<br/>
Wikipedia Founder
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