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There are just a few days until the end of Wikipedia's annual fundraising drive.

Can you help us raise the final £75,000 we need to get over the finishing line by New Year's Eve?

Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff.

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 470 million different people every month – with billions of page views.

That's why, for the last six weeks, we've been asking people who use Wikipedia if they can spare £10 or £20.

In the UK we've raised £925,482 so far, thanks to everyone's generosity. But when we started we set ourselves the goal of raising £1,000,000.

If you can donate just £10 today then we'll hit our target by the New Year, and we'll know that we have the vital funds we need to support Wikipedia through 2012.

Thank you very much.

Chris Keating Head of Fundraising, Wikimedia UK