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December 25, 2008
Help wikipedia
Jimmy Wales is asking Wikipedia’s users & readers to support the site with a donation.
This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world's five most popular web properties ask for financial support from its users?
Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website. Only 23 people are on its paid staff. Wikipedia content is free to use by anyone for any purpose. Its annual expenses are less than six million dollars, and it is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
At its core, Wikipedia is driven by a global community of more than 150,000 volunteers - all dedicated to sharing knowledge freely. Over almost eight years, these volunteers have contributed more than 11 million articles in 265 languages. More than 275 million people visit the website every month to access information, free of charge and free of advertising.
So please help
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Зачет! и ниипет!
Posted by: kayarajeazy at Dec 26, 2008 10:44:39 AM
Thanks for the heads up! Made a donation and added their button to my blog. You do good work.
Posted by: Carol at Dec 31, 2008 12:03:48 AM
I am unable to understand this post. But well some points are useful for me.
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Posted by: stroi-t at Mar 18, 2009 11:50:25 PM
Has learnt for itself a lot of interesting, thanks, I wait for continuation
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