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People want to help you, but they want to be able to do so quickly. Therefore, help them by including appropriate wikilinks to all relevant material in your request. At a minimum: When you first mention an article or any other Wikipedia page, provide a wikilink to it by wrapping its name into a pair of square brackets ([[ ]]).
Thank you!" Personally I thought that message was a good idea. There is a trade-off between begging for money (or advertising) and the level of service we can provide. For the most part, it is community consensus which determines where we sit on that spectrum, rather than being dictated from on high.
They mention “Wednesday” and “help keep Wikipedia online and growing”. I don’t know why it’s important to mention “Wednesday”, but clearly nobody is suggesting that Wikipedia will go offline on Thursday. Andreas: Surely it's designed to enhance the sense of urgency, that Wikipedia "really needs" money, today. But let me come ...
Help fund Wikipedia. On/off button for ads. The yearly fundraising banners on Wikipedia have a hide/show link that is remembered in subsequent sessions. It works for both registered and non-registered users, and is based on cookies. So there is already a system set up that could be adapted for an opt-in button.
A note on the separate status of the Wikimedia Endowment. The Wikimedia Endowment, held from 2016 to 2023 by the Tides Foundation and now a standalone 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is not and has never been included in Wikimedia Foundation assets, even though Wikimedia Foundation fundraising staff solicit donations to the Endowment and the Wikimedia Foundation itself made donations to the Endowment.
Wikipedia:Media copyright questions — about images, audio files, and other media. {} — write a question or request on your user talk page, and place {{Help me}} with it, and someone will be by shortly to help you on it. Live help — ask other editors questions in real time in a Wikipedia chat room.
Wikipedia is funded primarily by donations and grants.It does not charge for access nor offer any paid subscription services. If you're looking to acquire a profitable company to diversify your business portfolio, or if you're thinking of trying to save an indebted company from bankruptcy, Wikipedia isn't it.
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