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We’re a tiny non-profit organization, but this month we will serve billions of articles to hundreds of millions of people all over the world and it’s all paid for by small donations from our readers.

To do that, we have to be incredibly efficient. We do more with your $5, $10 and $20 donations than big commercial websites do with budgets hundreds of times our size.

Compare us to the other top-5 websites:


 * Google: 1,000,000 servers, 24,000 employees.
 * Facebook: 60,000 servers, 2,000 employees.
 * Microsoft: 220,000 servers, 90,000 employees.
 * Yahoo: 50,000 servers, 13,900 employees.
 * Wikimedia: 370 servers, 73 employees.

At the end of the day this isn't just a job – it's a mission to share knowledge with the world, for free. Please donate what you can to make this beautiful, strange, magical thing a reality.

Thanks,

The Staff of the Wikimedia Foundation