Talk:Wikimedia needs your help

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"They are tax deductible in the United States and Germany." might be confusing, only donations to the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. are deductible in Germany. --Kurt Jansson 00:17, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

At a glance I was afraid so - at least English and German version would be better to rewritten as soon as possible.
How about
"Donations to the Wikimedia Foundation are tax deductible in the United States. In Germany, similarly donations to the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. are deductible."
Just thought. --Aphaea 03:55, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
Please - somebody fix this and also add the WM-de donation info on the fundraising page. I need to go to bed. --Daniel Mayer 04:53, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Other ways to help

The Onion advert is going to link to this page so I'm going to add some stuff about non-monetary ways to help Wikimedia. This is temporarily at meta:User:Angela/Sandbox. This is to show that there are various ways to help rather than being a solicitation of donations. Angela 03:59, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

billion pages

more than 2.5 billion pages served

The use of billion can give confusing. --Walter 09:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

That was the amount of pages viewed, I remember reading about this. I have changed 'served' to viewed. Though I'm actually going to change that to page hits. This is how much traffic we get, and I believe that 2.5 billion was just en.wikipedia Redwolf24 10:06, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I mean when you use "billion" it is very confusing for non-americans to know what the number is you mean. See w:en:Names of large numbers --Walter 14:51, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Billion (meaning 10^9) is pretty much the de-facto standard in english - even the article you cite says it is 10^9 is the modern british meaning. Mark Pellegrini 21:48, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
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