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Frequently Asked Questions 2010

我的捐款会如何运用？

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你的捐款会用于人才和科技的范畴上。虽然维基百科及其姊妹计划是全球五大浏览人次最多的网站之一，但我们却只有少于302名职员；详情请参阅我们的职员简介。我们大约一半职员负责科技工作，另外有一个小组负责公众拓展及志愿网络发展活动，其余职员则负责筹款及行政事宜。而你的捐款也会用于购买技术硬件（服务器及带宽），令维基百科能够不断运作及扩展。

事实上，维基媒体基金会之所以成立，就是为了支持和发展维基百科及其姊妹计划的志愿撰写和编辑者网络，这个庞大的志愿社群现时在全球约有100,000人。

简单来说，维基百科是什么？

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维基百科是全球最大、最受欢迎的百科全书，任何人都可在网上免费使用，而且不含广告。维基百科收录超过1.6亿篇由志愿者用超过298种语言撰写的文章，每月世界各地有超过Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",".亿读者浏览，成为全球第五大受欢迎网站。维基百科是过去八年由数以百万的人编撰和累积而成的结晶：任何人都可随时编辑它的内容。维基百科是人类有史以来最大型的知识结集，支持维基百科的人，都同样热爱知识，对世界充满好奇，而且清楚知道将众人的知识集合起来，能远超过任何一个人的知识。

从哪里我才能得到更多的财务信息？

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2008–2009 Annual Report

The 2008–2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report covers the previous fiscal year (July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009) with a look-ahead to the next. This is our second annual report. The Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report is a summary of the organization's financials, program activities, milestones and accomplishments.

Highlights include:

  • Launch of Wikimedia's Usability Initiative
  • Wikimedia joins the Creative Commons
  • Wikimania conference in Alexandria, Egypt
  • Wikimedia's open strategy planning process begins
  • Successful fundraising and expansion of core operations

Download the 2008-2009 Annual Report:

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维基媒体基金会是否慈善机构？

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是，维基媒体基金会是根据美国《税务法》第501(c)(3)条获豁免缴税的非牟利组织，办事处设于美国加利福尼亚圣弗朗西斯科。请参阅我们的豁免缴税证明书及财务报告及年度申报表。

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为什么要捐助维基媒体基金会？

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维基媒体基金会的工作是令世上所有人能轻易获得免费知识，而且不依赖广告。我们是非牟利组织，需要靠你的捐款才能达到这个目标。你的捐款会直接用于全球最多人使用的集体编撰参考材料，包括全球五大最受欢迎网站之一、人类有使以来最大部的百科全书——维基百科。

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你们的计划是什么？发展方向是什么？

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As the organization's founder, Jimmy Wales, put it: "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." That’s where it’s going — and we need your help to get there.

Every month, more than 430,000,000 million people around the world use Wikipedia. It's available online, on your mobile device, on DVD, in books, and many other forms. We aspire to reach even more people, and to continually improve the quality of information that we provide. To do that, we are:

  • making it much easier to contribute knowledge. We've recently launched a large-scale initiative to improve the user experience both for adding text and multimedia. You can find more information on the project website.
  • creating learning and training resources to recruit more contributors: teachers, professors, students, photographers, filmmakers, scientists, librarians, archivists, curators, hobbyists, and many others. We're working with a growing network of 37 grass-roots Wikimedia chapter organizations around the world to reach out to these people, and encourage them to help us make Wikipedia better. More information can be found on the project website.
  • developing new technologies and processes for quality assurance that do not conflict with Wikimedia's fundamental openness. For the technically interested, this includes technologies for flagging edits and for detecting potentially problematic changes.
  • consulting with our global community of editors as well as experts, volunteers and thinkers around the world to develop innovative strategies for reaching more people, with higher quality resources, and for increasing the number of volunteers. More information about our five-year strategy project can be found on the project website.
  • building a rich dashboard of metrics to support the work of the Wikimedia movement. See our monthly report card and our statistics portal.

Finally, it is our mission to protect the work that has been done so far: to reduce the risk that disaster or technical failure could eliminate portions of our work, and to ensure that it is regularly copied in many places. We're not an excited start-up company that will fade away in two years -- we're in this for the long term.

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你们怎么样平衡维基百科的开放性和让它更可信赖？

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We believe increased participation makes Wikipedia better. At the same time, we must maintain the tough standards that have made Wikipedia respected by scientists, academics, journalists, and foundations.

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维基媒体基金会是什么样的组织？

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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is the parent organization of various free-content projects, most notably Wikipedia, the award-winning online encyclopedia. Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia in January 2001 and created the Wikimedia Foundation in June 2003. From the beginning, we have existed for one reason: the free and open sharing of knowledge. We don’t sell information and we don’t accept advertising. Your donation makes our work possible. We bring the educational content from these projects to people in as many forms as possible. In particular, we help disadvantaged communities with limited connectivity to access and contribute free educational content.

We own more than 400 servers used to run our projects, along with all the associated domain names and trademarks. We support strategic software development on the MediaWiki software and related tools, which allow more people to participate and the existing volunteer community to work more effectively. This includes tools specifically related to ensuring high quality. We develop learning resources, support workshops and strive to think intelligently about other ways to bring in new contributors and to grow Wikimedia as an international movement for free knowledge.

In all this, we are supported by local chapters organized in many different countries.

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你们支持哪些计划？

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The Wikimedia Foundation supports Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia and one of the five most-visited websites world-wide. From the founding of Wikipedia in January 2001, and the incorporation of the Wikimedia Foundation in June 2003, our growth has been staggering. The English-language Wikipedia, our first project, has expanded to more than 6,000,000 articles today. All Wikipedia languages combined contain more than 47,000,000 articles.

Besides Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation also supports:

We lead and support the development of MediaWiki, the open source wiki software behind all our public websites. We help to organize outreach and community events to encourage people to contribute to our projects, and we provide downloadable offline copies and database archives of Wikipedia content.

More information may be found on the page about our projects.

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维基媒体基金会运行的怎么样？

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The Wikimedia Foundation has a staff of 302, led by the Executive Director, Sue Gardner. The staff supports the work of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who contribute content to the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is also supported by countless volunteers participating through committees, as interns, or on an ad hoc basis.

The Board of Trustees articulates the mission and vision of the Wikimedia Foundation, reviews and helps to develop long term plans, provides oversight, and supports the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts. It is the ultimate organizational authority of the Wikimedia Foundation as defined in its bylaws. See Meetings for published Board minutes and Resolutions for published Board resolutions. The Board is partially elected from the community of contributors to the Wikimedia projects.

We have an office, located in San Francisco, California (USA), where most of our employees are working. All board members and remaining staff work remotely.

We strive to operate highly transparently, and have published key policies and financial information.

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维基媒体基金会的资金来源怎么样？

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Wikimedia is funded primarily through donations from hundreds of thousands of individuals, but also through several grants and gifts of servers and hosting (see benefactors).

The Wikimedia Foundation receives donations from more than 50 countries around the world. The average donation is quite small, but their sheer numbers have ensured our success. People make contributions year-round, and once a year the Wikimedia Foundation makes a formal request for donations.

We are not considering advertising as a source of revenue.

The Wikimedia Foundation has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States. Donations made from other nations may also be tax deductible. See deductibility of donations for details. Click here for details on how to make a donation via PayPal, MoneyBookers or by postal mail. For all other types of donation, please contact us through donate wikimedia.org.

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你们希望能募捐到多少钱？

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The 2010-11 plan posits revenue of $20.4 million, a 28% increase over projected revenue of $15.9 million for 2009-10.

More details about our finances can be found in our financial reports. Here is our 2010-11 Plan (PDF), and here is the Questions and Answers page related to it.

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有其他什么方面协助你们达成这一目标？

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Most of our funding comes from individuals -- people like you. We also receive grants from community and private foundations, as well as in-kind contributions from corporations. They can be seen on our Benefactors page.

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从哪里才能了解到你们最近的活动？

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For the fiscal year 2008-09, please Download the 2008-2009 Annual Report: PDF version (2.0 MB)

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我应该怎样捐助？

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To donate, please visit our fundraising page. You can donate using any major credit card (including VISA, Mastercard, Discover or American Express), PayPal, Moneybookers, bank transfer, or by sending a cheque to the Foundation. Our donation options support most (although not all) currencies.

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我应该把支票寄往何处？

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Send checks to:

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 98204
Washington, DC 20090-8204
USA
Note: donations by check are processed directly at our centralized lockbox location which is in Washington, DC.

Our preference is for checks in U.S. dollars, drawn on U.S. bank accounts. Checks in currencies other than U.S. dollars, or from bank accounts outside the U.S., can be very expensive for us to process, which reduces the value of your gift. If you do not have a U.S. bank account, you can maximize the value of your donation by giving via Paypal or wire transfer.

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我要把表格、信件和其他材料寄给维基媒体基金会，请问具体地址是哪里？

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Please send all correspondence, including Payroll Deduction applications and Matching Gifts forms, to our secure lockbox address:

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 98204
Washington, DC 20090-8204
USA
Note: donations by check are processed directly at our centralized lockbox location which is in Washington, DC.

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我能捐股票给维基媒体基金会吗？

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The Wikimedia Foundation accepts stock donations. You can make a donation by transferring stock from your brokerage to ours by providing your broker with our name, investment account number and DTCC clearing number.

Account holder name: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Financial broker: Smith Barney
Investment account number: 546-0356C-14-782
DTCC Clearing account number: #0418

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我的捐款是免税的吗？

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Please refer to the list of countries for the details of tax-deductibility.

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如果我捐助，怎样才能得到我的税务收据？

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If you donate by PayPal or credit card, you'll receive a tax receipt by e-mail, as long as your e-mail address was included with your donation. Donations by check over $50 will receive a tax receipt by mail, if you gave us your return address. You may also request a tax receipt for your donation by writing us at giving wikimedia.org (please include your contact information, the method you used to donate, and the amount of your donation).

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我能为了专门用于某件事定向或者限制用途的捐助吗？

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Charities based in the United States, including the Wikimedia Foundation, are required to honor restrictions requested by donors. This means that if you specify your donation needs to be restricted for a specific use, we will either honor your request or return your donation. But before you decide to do that, please consider that unrestricted donations are much more useful for us. Every restriction imposes administrative overhead and planning costs, and increases internal complexity.

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为什么设立最小捐款额？

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The minimum donation amount is $1. We receive small donations from people who don't have much money, and we are really, really grateful to those donors. Truly, if the gift is meaningful to you, it's meaningful to us. But, it's not uncommon for people to use donation mechanisms such as ours to test stolen credit cards to see if they work. Those people typically use a very small dollar amount for their testing: we find a $1 minimum donation amount seems to deter them.

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我怎样才能帮助你们传播捐助消息？

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Spread the word any way you can! Tell your friends and family. Tell them what Wikipedia means to you. Ask them if they use it and if so, what it means to them. Use this text as the signature file on the bottom of your emails:

We’ve created the greatest collection of shared knowledge in history. Help protect Wikipedia. Donate now: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/en

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你们的捐助人隐私政策是什么？

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We are serious about protecting the privacy rights of our donors. Please see our Donor Privacy Policy for our full details. In short, we do not share, sell, or trade your email address with anyone.

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我怎样才能联系基金会？

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具体请参见联系我们页面。

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