Fundraising 2012/Translation/Landing Page and Banner messages

---

Fundraising_2012
en/ English

Pages for translation: [edit status]
Jimmy Appeal (source)	Published
Landing Page and Banner messages (source)	Please proofread
Donor information pages (source) All languages	Published

Banners round one

1. Please help
2. Read Now
3. Please read:
   A personal appeal from
   Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
4. Wikipedia is non-profit, but it's the #5 website in the world, serving 450 million people every month. To protect our independence, we'll never run ads.
   Google and Yahoo have thousands of servers and staff. We have around 800 servers and 150 staff.
   If everyone reading this donated $5, we would only have to fundraise one day a year. Please donate to keep Wikipedia free.
5. Wikipedia is non-profit, but it's the #5 website in the world, serving 450 million people every month. To protect our independence, we'll never run ads.
   Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 12,000 staff. We have around 800 servers and 150 staff.
   If everyone reading this donated $5, we would only have to fundraise one day a year. Please donate to keep Wikipedia free.

Banners and LP's Round 2

1. A personal appeal from a Wikipedia editor
2. A personal appeal from a Wikipedia editor
3. average donation
4. Wikipedia is non-profit, but it's the #5 website in the world. With 450 million monthly users, we have costs like any top site: servers, power, rent, programs, staff and legal help.
   To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We take no government funds. We run on donations: $5 is the most common, the average is about $30.
   If everyone reading this gave $5, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. Please help us forget fundraising and get back to Wikipedia.
5. If everyone reading this gave the price of a sandwich, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. Please help us forget fundraising and get back to Wikipedia.

Privacy policy notice

1. By donating, you are sharing your information with the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and its service providers in the U.S. and elsewhere pursuant to our donor privacy policy.
2. We do not sell or trade your information to anyone. For more information, please read our donor policy <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donor_policy/en>.

Where your donation goes box text

1. Where your donation goes
2. Technology: Servers, bandwidth, maintenance, development. Wikipedia is the #5 website in the world, and it runs on a fraction of what other top websites spend.
3. People: The other top 10 websites have thousands of employees. We have 140 employees, making your donation a great investment in a highly-efficient not-for-profit organization.