this talk page or use the EDIT button beside the section heading to add to it This section edit button is important so please use it Category Main Page How to remove the donation notice If you ve already donated can not afford to do so or otherwise would rather hide the notice at the top of every page Logged in users Go to my preferences select the Gadgets tab check the box labelled Suppress display of the fundraiser site notice click Save then bypass your browser cache Ctrl F5 on Internet Explorer Ctrl Shift R on Firefox to see changes Not logged in Create an account this takes very little time all you have to do is pick a username and password then follow the above instructions It is beyond the control of the English language Wikipedia to remove the donation notice for users not logged in General discussion TOC Incomings Given the situation of the donations not reaching the goal of 6 million dollars in the usual period of time do you think it s fair to have adds in the main page and the bottom of article pages Comments are welcome IMO this is a good start and will greatly improve the situation I hope they do so But in the other hand I think that the key is to also integrate the encyclopedia with other services so it can recover the popularity it used to have some years ago Given the controvesy over the size of the ads this will be controversal I calculate that at the current donation rate of 60 cents a second averaged over 7 days it will take a little under 9 weeks to reach 6million Where do you need that money for What are you going to do with the money you ll receive Does wikipedia have people in payed service then and if so how much and how to become one A valid point Clicking the donate button takes you straight to the donate page fair enough where there is only a small link for more information Following that merely takes you to a page that essentially establishes Yes we really are a non profit here is our structure and charter to prove it A more prominent essay on why wikipedia runs this fundraiser every so often and how that money is used might boost income and confidence in that process My first thought was What Again Didn t they just do this I can t be the only one who thought that See Planned Spending Distribution 2007 2008 for what the money was used for last year Most of it goes on paying for all our domain names and keeping the servers running This gives a slightly more detailed example but without the nice chart The WMF does have a few staff on the payroll see Staff This will give you an idea of what this year s budget will be spent on Many people seem to misunderstand the difference between income and profit Happy reading P Indeed I m satisfied that it s all good but how would one norma