谷歌和雅虎有数以千计的服务器和职员。我们仅有约800台服务器和150名职员。

*是全球第五大网站，每月为4.5亿用户提供服务，页面浏览数以十亿计。

商业本无过，广告亦非恶。但它们不属于这里。不属于*。

*与众不同，它像一座图书馆或者一座公园，它像一座思想的殿堂，它是我们思考、学习并与人分享知识的地方。

在*初创时，我完全可以让它成为一家刊登广告的营利性公司，但是我决定做与众不同的事情。我们一直致力于保证其精简和节流。我们完成我们的使命，避免铺张浪费。

如果读到这封信的人都愿意捐出￥50，那么我们筹款一天就可维持一年的开销。但并不是每个人都有能力或者有意愿捐款。这可以理解。好在每一年都会刚好有足够多的人愿意伸出援手。

       今年，请您考虑捐献￥50, ￥75, ￥100或任何您力所能及的金额，来保障和维持*的运作。

感激不尽！

吉米·威尔士 

*创始人 “ 
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Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 500 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 efficiently.

If everyone reading this donated ￥50 yuán, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. 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 ￥50, ￥75, ￥100 yuán or whatever you can to protect and sustain Wikipedia.

Thanks,

Jimmy Wales 
Wikipedia Founder

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       读罢此文，让我对*的尊敬油然而生，（虽然还是没捐钱，唉……没有信用卡没有VISA）其实这样一个网站，想盈利再简单不过，它可以成为谷歌那样伟大的互联网公司。但是他为了做与众不同的事情（就像《社交网络》里面扎克伯格说的那样“it's just so cool ”），*还得靠着世界各地的捐款而活着，可能这些捐款刨去维护费用已经所剩无几～～～

向维基致敬阿～～～～！！！