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If everyone reading this donated $5, we’d have enough to cover Wikipedia's expenses. Not everyone donates. But each year enough people decide to give $5, $20, $50 or whatever they can to protect and sustain Wikipedia.
 * 1) Efficiency: Google might have 1,000,000 servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. Wikipedia has 679 servers and 131 staff.
 * 2) Serving the Whole World: We’re the 5th most visited website in the world, providing free knowledge to half a billion people every month.
 * 3) Volunteers Who Need Support: Wikipedia articles are created and maintained entirely by passionate volunteer editors and writers.
 * 4) No Ads Ever: We’ll never run ads from corporate sponsors and sacrifice our credibility.
 * 5) Powered By Readers: We have the same costs of any big website -- servers, connection, power, rent, and technical staff -- and we make ends meet through the generosity of readers.