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Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Have You Donated To Wikipedia Already? - DailyBlogTips

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PST

If you are a heavy Internet user I am sure you land on Wikipedia quite often. I would also bet that the information you find there is most of the time complete and accurate. In this case, have you considered to help them back a little bit?

Here’s why I respect Wikipedia’s efforts: they remained truthful to their original values (i.e., creating a website to democratize access to knowledge), despite becoming one of the most popular websites ever.

The site receives over 400 million uniques per month, and generates over 6 billion page views. If Jimmy Wales decided to insert a small AdSense unit on the left sidebar he would probably make over $100 million per year from that alone. Not too shabby huh?

Instead he decided to keep Wikipedia advertising free and unbiased.

How does Wikipedia survive then? With donations. You can donate all around the year, but the bulk of them come at the end of every year.

If you want to donate here’s the page where you can do it. Even $10 will help (and yeah, I donate every year, else I wouldn’t be preaching here).

Finally, if donating money is not an option for you right now you can contribute in other ways too. You could write about Wikipedia on your website, for example, or you could volunteer to edit specific entries where you have expertise.

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