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If everyone reading this donated a dollar, our annual fundraiser would be over in just a few days.

Not everyone can or will donate. And that’s fine, because each year just enough people support Wikipedia with a small donation. If you feel it's your turn, please make a small donation of $10, $20, $35 or whatever you can to keep Wikipedia free.

When we created Wikipedia, our vision was a world in which every single human being could freely share in the sum of all knowledge. But we never thought Wikipedia would get this big: 17 million articles in 270 languages. We certainly never dared to hope it would become the fifth most visited website in the world.

I'm a volunteer. I don't get paid a cent for my work at Wikipedia, and neither do our thousands and thousands of volunteer writers and editors.

But there are still bills to pay: for servers, for bandwidth, and for our very small staff. So every year at this time, we ask people who use Wikipedia to chip in to keep it free.

Last year, one in 1,000 people who use Wikipedia made a donation to keep it free. This year, we're adding critical technology and people that are long overdue. We need two in 1,000 to donate this time. Please consider being one of them.

Thanks,

Jimmy Wales Wikipedia Founder