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It’s
PAYBACKtime.
What do you do when you want to know something?
and… Where does GOOGLE mostly direct you to?
400 million people read Wikipedia
20 people out of every 100 internet user
Data analysed from: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
20%
1 out of every 5 of us read
Wikipedia’s Alexa Rank is
8
1 Google2 Facebook3 YouTube4 Yahoo!5 Windows Live6 Baidu.com7 Blogger.com
8 Wikipedia
10 Twitter11 MSN13 Amazon.com20 eBaY.com
ahead ofTwitter, MSN,
Amazon & eBaY
Data gathered from Alexa.com on 24.12.2010 http://www.alexa.com/topsites (Global)
It has 17million articles
It is available in 262 languages
It has articles on diverse topics
Wikipedia is written by volunteers from all over the
world
Ican edit any article on
Wikipedia
Youcan edit any article on
Wikipedia
With so many eyeballs…
Guess how many ads are there on Wikipedia?
0ZERO
Wikipedia is run by Wikimedia (a non-profit
organisation)
It is ad-freeto give us a better reading
experience
It survives on donations and grants
That is why
Today
Wikipedia needs YOU
It wants to raise
16million dollars
If each and every reader contributes even $1
It will raise
400milllion dollars
It will raise
400milllion dollars16 x 25 =
25 times more that what it needs
As on 24-Dec-2010Wikipedia has raised
just
$12.6 million
$12.6 million$ 3.4 millionshort$16.0 million
Your one gesture can keep Wikipedia ad-free
Contribute
Contribute a small amount now
Contribute a small amount now
