[glug-t] Wikipedia needs your help!

Quoting from their website:
Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) is a "copyleft" encyclopedia that is 
collaboratively developed using wiki software. Wikipedia is managed and 
operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. In addition to standard 
"encyclopedic" knowledge, Wikipedia includes information more often associated 
with almanacs and gazetteers, as well as coverage of current events.

Fundraising
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access 
to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. And we need your 
help.

Fund drive goal: $50,000

 $46,430.11 USD to go
 
The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is a non-profit organization with the goal of 
providing free knowledge to every person in the world. Meeting this goal 
through the maintainence, development and distribution of free content, 
Wikimedia relies on public donations to run its wiki-based projects.

Wikimedia provides computing and network resources to create and distribute 
many reference works including Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org), Wiktionary 
(http://en.wiktionary.org), Wikiquote (http://en.wikiquote.org), Wikibooks 
(http://en.wikibooks.org), Wikisource (http://wikisource.org) and the Wikimedia 
Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org). The content of these projects is 
provided to the public free of charge.

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, rackspace within a colocation center, 
purchase of Wikimedia's domain names, sponsorship of specific software 
development tasks, and, occasionally, travel expenses.

The Wikimedia Foundation also requires funding to continue its pioneering role 
in exploring the field of collaborative content creation. Every donation can 
make a big difference. 

For more information, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and 
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising

Vijay



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