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Today, I am asking you to make a donation to support Wikipedia.

I started Wikipedia in 2001, and over the past eight years, I've been amazed and humbled to see hundreds of thousands of volunteers join with me to build the largest encyclopedia in human history.

Wikipedia isn't a commercial website. It's a community creation, entirely written and funded by people like you. More than 340 million people use Wikipedia every month - almost a third of the Internet-connected world. You are part of our community.

I believe in us. I believe that Wikipedia keeps getting better. That's the whole idea. One person writes something, somebody improves it a little, and it keeps getting better, over time. If you find it useful today, imagine how much we can achieve together in 5, 10, 20 years.

Wikipedia is about the power of people like us to do extraordinary things. People like us write Wikipedia, one word at a time. People like us fund it. It's proof of our collective potential to change the world.

We need to protect the space where this important work happens. We need to protect Wikipedia. We want to keep it free of charge and free of advertising. We want to keep it open – you can use the information in Wikipedia any way you want. We want to keep it growing – spreading knowledge everywhere, and inviting participation from everyone.

The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization I created in 2003 to operate, grow, nurture, and protect Wikipedia. For ten million US dollars a year and with a staff of fewer than 35 people, it runs the fifth most-read website in the entire world. I'm asking for your help so we can continue our work.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s where we’re headed. And with your help, we will get there.

Thank you for using Wikipedia. You're part of this story: please make a donation today.

Jimmy Wales

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今日，我謹此請求閣下捐款支持維基百科。

我在2001年創立維基百科，並感到非常驚訝，在過去八年有成千上萬的義工加入了我們的團隊，一同建立人類歷史上最豐富和大型的百科全書。

維基百科並非商業網站，它是一個團隊創作，一個完全由像大家一樣的網絡使用者去撰寫和建立的網尋。每月平均有超過三億四千萬的網民在使用維基百科，該數字是接近全球網絡使用者當中的三分之一。大家就是我們團隊的一部份。

我相信我們的團隊，能夠不斷完善維基百科。某人寫下第一筆，另一人改善一點，我們的內容就這樣點點滴滴地進步，集腋成裘，這就是我們的信念。如果你今天已經覺得有用，那麼可以想像到五年，十年，二十年後，我們可以到達哪一層次。

維基百科是一個例證，顯示像我們一般的人，如何創造出驚人成就。大家希望我們有字出字，有錢出錢，進而證明我們可以改變世界的潛力。

然而我們需要保護承載這些驚人成就的舞台，也即是我們需要保護維基百科。我們希望維基百科繼續保持免費，並不會出現任何廣告。我們希望將它保持開放－－你可以任意使用維基百科的內容。我們希望讓它繼續成長－－將知識傳播到世界各地，邀請任何人來貢獻。

維基媒體基金會是一個於2003年創立之非牟利機構，以用作營運、發展、和維護維基百科。在每年募得一千萬美元的捐款，和少於35名職員的情況下，它營運了全球瀏覽數排名第五位的網頁－－維基百科。我謹此請求你的協助，以作維持著我們的工作。

「試想像世界上每一個人，都能自由存取全人類知識的總資料庫。」這是我們一直全力以赴的目標。而且，加上你的幫忙，我們一定可以達到。

多謝大家使用維基百科。你是這個傳奇的一部份：我們需要你的捐款。


http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/...target=Appeal2

維基百科　創辦人
吉米·威爾斯



"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge."
— Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

「試想像世界上每一個人，都能自由存取全人類知識的總資料庫。」
— 維基百科創辦人吉米?威爾斯