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 =How to remove the donation notice= 

  
 If you've already donated, cannot 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=  

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 == 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. 
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 : 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. —∴ ξ  
 :::Indeed! I'm satisfied that it's all good, but how would one norma