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A Wikipedia that was influenced by financial donations would have access to far more money than whatever you are claiming you would have donated. Imagine a Wikipedia where the willingness to donate was allowed to control content and discussions.
Wikipedia depends on donations (there is literally no other meaningful revenue source) and donations go to support Wikipedia both directly (software, hardware, bandwith, operations engineers) and indirectly (chapter activities of all kinds such as local press relationships, GLAM activities, new editor recruitment, etc.).
4) In the final design, this will be a clearer "Donate now >>" button, which will use the same design as the one on the new landing page. 5) We haven't decided yet if we want the quotes to be "boxed" or not, it just might be enough to separate them with some whitespace & format them nicely.
Releasing the design explicitly under a free license or into the public domain. If you've done those things, then get the word out in a few places, and choose a space on-wiki to discuss your ideas. These can include: English Wikipedia Main Pages and portals: To discuss redesign ideas with editors, post to the Village Pump for Proposals
Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, but saying that doesn't mean much - it doesn't say what belongs on Wikipedia. The official guidance is a mix of WP:Notability to say what belongs there and WP:NOT to say what doesn't. But those are full of Wikipedian Jargon - and there's a reason WP:OMGWTFBBQ leads to a page. This short essay is to cut through the ...
One fundamental reason is Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion #5, which includes the sentence: Those promoting causes or events, or issuing public service announcements, even if noncommercial, should use a forum other than Wikipedia to do so. More practical is what Andreas lays out in quite a lot of ...
In the "To new title" box, change the old name of the page (in this case, "User:Your username goes here/New article") to the new name of the page (in this case, "Sam Wyly"); enter a reason (typically, "Creating new article"); and click the "Watch this page" box (see the section about your watchlist).