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Five Facts about Wikipedia:
 
1.#     Google might have 1,000,000 servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 131 staff.
2.#     We’re the fifth most visited website in the world, providing free knowledge to half a billion people every month.
3.#     Volunteers create Wikipedia, but we have the same costs of any big website: servers, connection, power, rent, and technical staff.
4.#     We’re funded by our readers, not by ads or corporate sponsors.
5.#     Wikipedia is offered in 284 languages, with more than 15 million total articles.

If everyone reading this donated {{AppealAmountSwitch|language=en|country={{{country}}}|amount=$5|$5}}, we’d have enough to cover Wikipedia's expenses.  Not everyone donates.  But each year enough people decide to give {{AppealAmountSwitch|language=en|country={{{country}}}|amount=all|$5, €10, ¥1000}} or whatever they can to protect and sustain Wikipedia.