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per Board meeting today, there is no stated goal in this fundraiser. |
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=== About the fundraising drive === |
=== About the fundraising drive === |
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===== Hosting a web site costs next to nothing |
===== Hosting a web site costs next to nothing; why do you need all that money?===== |
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: Hosting a personal web site, today, costs next to nothing, because such sites get very little traffic and need very little room on the provider's computers. However, Wikipedia |
: Hosting a personal web site, today, costs next to nothing, because such sites get very little traffic and need very little room on the provider's computers. However, all of the Wikimedia projects - Wikipedia included - are among the biggest sites in the world in terms of hits. The Wikimedia Foundation spent about US$430,000 on computer hardware and US$200,000 on Internet hosting during the 2005-06 fiscal year. |
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===== Wikipedia is cool! I'll give you some money. But what will it be used for? ===== |
===== Wikipedia is cool! I'll give you some money. But what will it be used for? ===== |
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