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We have the greatest job in the world.

Every day, we come to work knowing that we're supporting and growing the greatest collaborative human endeavor on the planet: An encyclopedia with 18 million articles in 270 languages, all created by volunteers and served for free -- no ads, no gimmicks, no registration fees.

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.

This is a place where $5 or $20 can accomplish what, at a commercial website, costs thousands, or millions. 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