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 * 1) Google might have 1,000,000 servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 131 staff.
 * 2) We’re the fifth most visited website in the world, serving half a billion people every month -- for free.
 * 3) Volunteers create Wikipedia, but we have the same costs of any big website: servers, connection, power, rent, and technical staff.
 * 4) We’re funded by our readers, not by ads or corporate sponsors.
 * 5) If everyone reading this donated $5, we’d have what we need.
 * 6) Not everyone donates -- and that’s OK, because each year just enough people give whatever amount they can.
 * 7) When we’ve raised our budget, we stop asking.