今早在维基百科上查东西时,网页的最上角出现了一栏小广告,我一看居然是维基创始人发的捐款呼吁,点开后网页内容如下:
“ 来自维基百科创办者Jimmy Wales的个人呼吁
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Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 500 million different people every month – with billions of page views.
Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like a temple for the mind. It is a place we can all go to think, to learn, to share our knowledge with others.
When I founded Wikipedia, I could have made it into a for-profit company with advertising banners, but I decided to do something different. We’ve worked hard over the years to keep it lean and tight. We fulfill our mission efficiently.
If everyone reading this donated ¥50 yuán, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. But not everyone can or will donate. And that's fine. Each year just enough people decide to give.
This year, please consider making a donation of ¥50, ¥75, ¥100 yuán or whatever you can to protect and sustain Wikipedia.
Thanks,
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia Founder
读罢此文,让我对维基百科的尊敬油然而生,(虽然还是没捐钱,唉……没有信用卡没有VISA)其实这样一个网站,想盈利再简单不过,它可以成为谷歌那样伟大的互联网公司。但是他为了做与众不同的事情(就像《社交网络》里面扎克伯格说的那样“it's just so cool ”),维基百科还得靠着世界各地的捐款而活着,可能这些捐款刨去维护费用已经所剩无几~~~
向维基致敬阿~~~~!!!