Fundraising 2011/Susan Letter/si

Translation instructions
  • For pages marked "Missing" or "In progress", click the page title and start translating. When you are done, click "edit status" and change the status to proofreading.
  • For pages marked "Needs updating", compare the page to the source page and update the translation accordingly. When you are done, click "edit status" and change the status to proofreading.
  • It is important to have someone else proofread the translated page! If you have proofread a page and it is ready for publication, click "edit status" and change that page's status to ready.
  • If you are changing something that has already been published, change its status back to ready for it to be published again.

If you have any questions or feedback regarding the translation process, please post them here. Translation FAQ

Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. Wikipedia only has 679 servers and 95 staff.

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 470 million different people every month – all powered by donations from readers.

If you use Wikipedia, you realize how fabulous it is to get all this information without a paywall, and to not have to read ads, and not have things flashing on the sides and so on. It’s a pure experience.

I think people who benefit from it a lot, and can afford it, maybe would feel a moral obligation to kick in at least a couple bucks if they knew what was needed.

How about pitching in a couple bucks today? – or 5 or 20!

The amazing thing about Wikipedia is that nerds like me, who love weird things like gastropods (snails), get to come together and share our passion with the world. That’s what makes Wikipedia so magical – there’s this unspoken light inside all of us that comes from the desire to help educate, to help share knowledge.

Please keep this garden of knowledge growing by making a contribution today.

Thanks,

Susan Hewitt
Wikipedia Author