Fundraising 2011/Jimmy Letter 003

Fundraising 2011
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This letter will be used for all projects, not just Wikipedia like the others.

It is almost identical to Jimmy Letter 002, so you can just copy the content of Jimmy Letter 002 and change what is necessary here.

Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 400 servers and 73 staff.

Wikipedia and its sister sites are the #5 web property and serve 470 million different people every month – with billions of page views.

Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikimedia.

SITENAME 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 the Wikimedia Foundation, 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 $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 the Wikimedia projects.

Thanks,

Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia Founder