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Revision as of 03:04, 1 January 2012 view source Cbarr (talk \| contribs) inactive 13,762 edits Created page with "* 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 le..."		Latest revision as of 20:38, 1 December 2023 view source Pcoombe (talk \| contribs) Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators 10,495 edits We → Wikimedia Foundation
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Line 1: == Where your donation goes == * 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. '''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. * 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. '''People and Projects''': The other top websites have thousands of employees. Wikimedia Foundation has about {{numstaff}} staff and contractors to support a wide variety of projects, making your donation a great investment in a highly-efficient not-for-profit organization. * 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.