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Your donation kept Wikipedia on the web last year. Thank you. | Your donation kept Wikipedia on the web last year. Thank you. Since last year we have expanded our work with museums and universities and we have successfully persuaded the Charity Commission that Wikimedia UK is a registered charity. Thats wasn't easy. We have created very unusual products that keep us in the top ten web sites in the world. | ||
Unlike any other top website, Wikipedia is powered by small donations from its users. That's why the £X you gave last year was so important. And it's why I need to ask you if you can donate again this year. | Unlike any other top website, Wikipedia is powered by small donations from its users. That's why the £X you gave last year was so important. And it's why I need to ask you if you can donate again this year. | ||
Revision as of 23:04, 10 November 2011
This is the draft text for our fundraising launch appeal.
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Dear Friend,
Your donation kept Wikipedia on the web last year. Thank you. Since last year we have expanded our work with museums and universities and we have successfully persuaded the Charity Commission that Wikimedia UK is a registered charity. Thats wasn't easy. We have created very unusual products that keep us in the top ten web sites in the world.
Unlike any other top website, Wikipedia is powered by small donations from its users. That's why the £X you gave last year was so important. And it's why I need to ask you if you can donate again this year.
Click here to donate £X1, or whatever you can afford, right now.
Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 422 million different people every month. We have 400 servers and less than a hundred staff. That's why we need your help today.
Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like a temple for the mind. It is a place we can all go to think, to learn, to share our knowledge with others.
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.
If everyone reading this donated £X1, £X2, or maybe even set up a monthly Direct Debit of £X3, we wouldn't need to fundraise at all. But not everyone can or will donate. And that's fine. Each year just enough people decide to give.
Please click here to donate your £X1 now.
Thanks,
Jimmy Wales Wikipedia founder