[OT]呼吁大家在年度最后一天向Wikipedia捐款
吴江
我觉得大家平时多多少少也会用到Wikipedia的服务，可以考虑做些回报。
吴江
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发件人："Jimmy Wales" <don...@wikimedia.org>
日期：2011-12-29 上午3:45
主题：Can you share this?
收件人："WU JIANG" <master...@gmail.com>
Dear WU,
Here's how the Wikipedia fundraiser works: Every year we raise just the funds that we need, and then we stop.
Because you and so many other Wikipedia readers donated over the past weeks, we are very close to raising our goal for this year by December 31 -- but we're not quite there yet.
You've already done your part this year. Thank you so much. But you can help us again by forwarding this email to a friend who you know relies on Wikipedia and asking that person to help us reach our goal today by clicking here and making a donation.
If everyone reading this email forwarded it to just one friend, we think that would be enough to let us end the fundraiser today.
Of course, we wouldn't turn you down if you wanted to make a second donation or a monthly gift.
Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff.
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 470 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, but I decided to do something different. We’ve worked hard over the years to keep it lean and tight. We fulfill our mission, and leave waste to others.
Thanks again for your support this year. Please help spread the word by forwarding this email to someone you know.
Thanks,
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia Founder
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Xunzhen Quan
另外就是，感觉维基媒体基金会实在不会运营，怎么天天要捐钱……
Sami Zhan
Xiangfu Liu
> 我只想知道怎么捐……如果维基支持支付宝的话我肯定会去捐的……
>
http://bit.ly/tDmpbI. 用信用卡。很方便。
> 另外就是，感觉维基媒体基金会实在不会运营，怎么天天要捐钱……
wow. send email to Jimmy Wales or Larry Sanger.
Xiangfu Liu
> http://bit.ly/tDmpbI. 用信用卡。很方便。
> 没有信用卡……
>
> 不过我有个同学说他用他的信用卡也没捐成功……
具体什么错误？你选的是什么币种？
如果你的信用卡只支持 USD 和 RMB。 那就只能捐RMB或USD，要选择相应的币种。
Xunzhen Quan
维基百科的访问量不是一个kde-looks这样的网站可以比的，维基百科的服务器数量多，而且流量非常大，服务器费用相当高昂。我感觉捐款主要就是为了应对服务器费用了吧。在人员上维基媒体好像只有二十多个雇员，已经十分精简了。
为了你说的这个，我特地去查了维基媒体基金会2011年的年报，年报第23页给出了审计数据，概述如下：
2011年总收入 $24,785k，总支出 $17,890k
支出中，
工资和薪金 (Salaries and wages) 占 $7,312k
奖金和补助 (Awards and grants) 占 $471k
互联网主机 (Internet hosting) 占 $1,800k
操作费 (Operating expenses) 占 $5,761k
旅行 (Travel) 占 $1,159k
折旧费用 (Depreciation and amortization) 占 $1,001k
当然上面只是部分支出所以总和不对
可以看出支出中的大头在工资和操作费，服务器费用只占了很小很小的一部分，甚至快跟旅行费用相当了已经。
具体可以看 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report
Xunzhen Quan
不过我不清楚操作费和折旧费用到底是什么，都是服务器的维护费么？
我觉得互联网主机应该是指带宽费用了，其他的就不知道具体指什么了
机械唯物主义 : linjunhalida
$1,800k 也就几十台主机的样子.
Ma Xiaojun
我查EECS那些，正文一般比較亂，果斷看最後的外部鏈接⋯⋯
Mea Culpa
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- http://ucarenya.com/
Xiangfu Liu
> On 09:24 Sat 31 Dec , Xiangfu Liu wrote:
>> > On 12/31/2011 09:14 AM, Xunzhen Quan wrote:
>>> > > 我只想知道怎么捐……如果维基支持支付宝的话我肯定会去捐的……
>>> > >
>> >
>> > http://bit.ly/tDmpbI. 用信用卡。很方便。
> Paypal 已发
cool.
YanQian
On Dec 31 2011, 7:44 am, 吴江 <masterwuji...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 我觉得大家平时多多少少也会用到Wikipedia的服务，可以考虑做些回报。
>
> 吴江
>
> ---------- 转发的消息 ----------
> 发件人："Jimmy Wales" <don...@wikimedia.org>
> 日期：2011-12-29 上午3:45
> 主题：Can you share this?
> Dear WU,
>
> Here's how the Wikipedia fundraiser works: Every year we raise just the
> funds that we need, and then we stop.
>
> Because you and so many other Wikipedia readers donated over the past
> weeks, we are very close to raising our goal for this year by December 31
> -- but we're not quite there yet.
>
> You've already done your part this year. Thank you so much. But you can
> help us again by forwarding this email to a friend who you know relies on
> Wikipedia and asking that person to help us reach our goal today by
> clicking here and making a donation.
>
> If everyone reading this email forwarded it to just one friend, we think
> that would be enough to let us end the fundraiser today.
>
> Of course, we wouldn't turn you down if you wanted to make a second
> donation or a monthly gift.
>
> Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like
> 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff.
>
> Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 470 million different people