Why Does Wikipedia Need $6 M?

AFAIK, Wikipedia consists of volunteers from all over the world, and they don't have a payroll. So why are they seeking $6 M in donations?

I don't suppose that their servers cost $6 M

 

thats wiki target

 

Nowadays $6M is nearly enough to set up a server for two months.

 

Yes its 'chunk change' in business,

although if it's in your pocket,

It's a Fortune

 

Yes I wouldn't mind to carry that in my pocket .

 

Servers / Hosting / Development Costs and probably they do this every year and so probably the complete years expense.

Even We support it. Check this

 

Because they need a few million to pay Google to keep their first page ranks.

 

I remember I read the news from authoritive media that wikipedia is facing financial difficulties too .
It is a several month old news .
That might be the reason they need donation .

 

they get a few visitors a day

 

Servers, software updates, patches, moderation, legal team and possibly a few others

 

Pay their bill. And buy some links for me

Kidding...

 

6 mill thats an exageratio for servers for 2 moths looool i dont think even 6 mill would be enough to keep it up at that rate. 6 mill must do alot more for them

 

wow huge money, i think it easy to get the money for a huge site like wikipedia

 

to buy my signiture link, or their bandwidth bill

 

Server costs, definitely. Wikipedia is and has been one of the most popular websites ever.

I just hope they don't have to resort to ads...

 

.... or getting bought out by a large company (cough - GOOGLE)

 

nice target... then they say that the content is for fair use

 

Here is the answer:



Source (page 9): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...F_20072008_Annual_report._high_resolution.pdf

 

WikiMedia group is a charitable organization which also owns wikipedia. So to run such large corp..they definitely need funds. Dont they?