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The Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising team cultivates the resources that propel our movement. We engage millions of people from countries across the globe to support Wikipedia and its sister projects. The overwhelming majority of the Foundation's funding comes from individual readers from all over the world giving an average of $11.
Donations help the Wikimedia Foundation maintain server infrastructure, improve the software that supports our projects, and make Wikipedia and its sister projects accessible globally to millions of people. For additional information, please see the 2024–2025 Fundraising Report.
Current fundraising activities
Operated by Wikimedia Foundation
For the Financial Year 25/26
Q3 and Q4 FY25/26 campaigns:
- Italy campaign. Email: 3 februari-24 februari, Banners: 3 mars-31 mars. Here are some email examples: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Czech Republic campaign. Email: 23 februari-20 mars, Banners: 31 mars-28 april. Here is an Email example: Power Email
- Sweden campaign. Email: 6 april-1 maj, Banners: 6 april-4 maj
- Portugal campaign. Email: 8 juni-12 juni, Banners: 6 april-4 maj
- Belgium campaign. Email: 16 februari-13 mars, Banners: 5 maj-2 juni Here are some Email examples: Email 1 English Email 2 English Email 3 English Email 4 English Email 1 Dutch Email 2 Dutch Email 3 Dutch Email 4 Dutch Email 1 FrenchEmail 2 French Email 3 French Email 4 French
- Latvia campaign. Email: 3 mars-24 mars, Banners: 5 maj-2 juni. Here are some example Emails. Please note, emails will only be send in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Luxembourg campaign. Email: 3 mars-24 mars, Banners: 5 maj-2 juni Here are some example Emails. Please note, emails will only be send in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Poland campaign. Email: 3 mars-24 mars, Banners: 5 maj-2 juni Here are some example Emails. Please note, emails will only be send in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Romania campaign. Email: 3 mars-24 mars, Banners: 5 maj-2 juni Here are some example Emails. Please note, emails will only be send in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Slovakia campaign. Email: 3 mars-24 mars, Banners: 5 maj-2 juni Here are some example Emails. Please note, emails will only be send in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Spain campaign. Email: 9 mars-3 april, Banners: 5 maj-2 juni
- Japan campaign. Email: 4 maj-29 maj, Banners: 2 juni-30 juni
- Austria campaign. Email: 17 mars-7 april, Banners: 2 juni-30 juni
- Denmark campaign. Email: 1 juni-26 juni, Banners: 2 juni-30 juni
- Greece campaign. Email: 18 maj-22 maj, Banners: 2 juni-30 juni
- Malaysia campaign. Email: 3 mars-24 mars, Banners: 2 juni-30 juni Here are some example Emails. Please note, emails will only be send in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- South Africa campaign. Email: 1 juni-26 juni, Banners: 2 juni-30 juni
- Norway campaign. Email: 3 mars-24 mars, Banners: 2 juni-30 juni Here are some example Emails. Please note, emails will only be send in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- English campaign. Email: 30 mars-17 april
- Hungary campaign. Email: 1 juni-26 juni
| Community collaboration pages around WMF's fundraising campaigns 2022/23 |
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Contact Us
- We have an FAQ for donors and one for community members.
- Please stay in contact with us on the fundraising talk page.
- IRC channel: #wikimedia-fundraisinganslut (publicly logged)
- To report technical software bugs in Phabricator, follow mw:How to report a bug and use the #wikimedia-fundraising project tag.
- For a breakdown of how fundraising tech uses Phabricator, check out this wikitech page.
- For a calendar of all central-notice banners, including fundraising, see CentralNotice/Calendar.
Fundraising updates
See the full archive
Documents, Reports, Articles, Videos and more
Articles:
How does the Wikimedia Foundation use donations to Wikipedia?
Building a secure financial future for Wikipedia by Lisa Seitz Gruwell
Foundation 360 Building the relationships and resources we need to thrive Interview with Megan Hernandez, Advancement Department
The finances of free knowledge Lessons in transparency and impact by Jaime Villagomez
7 reasons you should donate to Wikipedia by Lisa Seitz Gruwell
Reports and Documents:
Fundraising Content Strategy Overview
2025/26 Q2 Update
During Q2 the fundraising team focused mainly on the Big English fundraising campaign in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, and the US as well as the yearly fundraising campaign in France.
The fundraising team engaged the English Wikipedia community from July onwards on the community collaboration page and shared test ideas, product experimentations, and gave everyone space to contribute. Additionally, the fundraising programme was presented in a workshop at Wikimania.
In France the fundraising team hosted a community collaboration page and a community call giving the French community a chance to share their thoughts and feedback. Several suggestions from community members were implemented.
2025/26 Q1 Update
We started the financial year 2025/26 with fundraising campaigns in the Netherlands, LatAm (this is a scheduling change, our LatAm campaign has moved from Q3/4 to Q1/2 as of this year) and France (email, banners will follow in Q2). You can find all the relevant community collaboration pages above. We engaged our local communities beforehand, via the community collaboration pages and community calls.
We also launched the English banner fundraising campaign community collaboration page where we engage with volunteers until the end of the year. Parallel to this, we have been running our pre-testing programme for the English campaign as well as the kick-off of our email campaign.
Some love from our donors:
The reason for my contribution is simple: purchasing my iPad was primarily intended to have access to at any time of the day the encyclopedia Wikipedia. Especially now that my limited mobility hinders visits to the library. Wikipedia literally means knowledge of the world at my feet! I wish the W.F. much success in further developing what I consider to be the best invention of the past decades. Donor from the Netherlands
See also
- Erik Moeller and Domas Mituzas on fundraising since 2010