[kanchilug] From Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
- From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: fossnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, chennaigeeks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kanchilug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:12:37 +0530
From Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like
13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff.
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 450 million different
people every month – with billions of page views.
Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here.
Not in Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park.
It is like a temple for the mind. It is a place we can all go to
think, to learn, to share our knowledge with others.
When I founded Wikipedia, I could have made it into a for-profit
company with advertising banners, but I decided to do something
different. We’ve worked hard over the years to keep it lean and tight.
We fulfill our mission, and leave waste to others.
If everyone reading this donated $10, we would only have to fundraise
for one day a year. But not everyone can or will donate. And that's
fine. Each year just enough people decide to give.
This year, please consider making a donation of $5, $20, $50 or
whatever you can to protect and sustain Wikipedia.
Thanks,
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia Founder
To Donate:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1118_combo10/en/US
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T.Shrinivasan
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