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How your donation will help
All of our sites are free from advertisements. Visitors are not charged to edit, read or use our content. We rely entirely on donations to fund our projects. Our unprecedented growth in traffic and content requires regular hardware updates to prevent outages without sacrificing functionality. Other outgoings include bandwidth costs, rack space within a collocation center, purchase of Wikimedia's domain names, sponsorship of specific software development tasks, and occasional travel expenses.
See our latest budget report for details on where the money will go, and details on the hardware we ordered after our last fundraising drive.
The Wikimedia Foundation also requires funding to continue its pioneering role in exploring the field of collaborative content creation. In addition, we are pursuing grants to fund the packaging and distribution of Wikimedia content to places that do not have access to the Internet. Every donation can make a big difference. If you have any questions regarding donations or the Wikimedia Foundation, please contact us.
Fundraiser information
- Reports
- Public donor lists (PayPal only)
- Current fundraiser with links to daily public donor lists
- This month with links to monthly lists
- 2005 fundraisers with links to monthly lists (data prior to 26 February 2005 not available).
Disclaimer
Please note that neither this page nor any link on any Wikimedia site pointing to this page should be considered a solicitation to make a donation.