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Please pitch in $5, $20, $50 or whatever you can.
 * 1) Google might have 1,000,000 servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 131 staff.
 * 2) As the #5 website, we serve 28 billion pages to half a billion people every month -- all for free.
 * 3) Wikipedia articles are created and maintained by volunteers, but we have most of the same costs of any big website: servers, connection, power, rent, technical and program staff.
 * 4) We don’t run ads and we don’t rely on corporate sponsors -- so that you can trust Wikipedia.
 * 5) Wikipedia is supported by small donations from readers who value and benefit from it.
 * 6) Every year, just enough people donate to keep the lights on.
 * 7) When we’ve raised our budget, we stop asking.