Wikipedia:Donation appeal ideas

Our current appeal for donations, which is shown to unregistered and unlogged-in users, reads as follows:


 * Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running!

It is also currently shown in small font. Neither the text nor the layout have been debated much. This page is meant to serve as a brainstorming space for new slogans and layouts. Please post your ideas below, and feel free to sign them.

Formal donation slogans

 * Wikipedia brings free knowledge to the world. Please consider making a donation to support our operations.
 * Wikipedia is non-profit and free of advertising. Please consider making a donation.
 * Wikipedia is free for you, but not free for us. Consider a donation to keep our mission strong.
 * Make a donation to Wikipedia and give the gift of knowledge!
 * Wikipedia is free of advertising. Please help us keep it that way.
 * Donate today, and empower the world with the ability to share in the sum of all human knowledge.
 * Make your donation as great as you think Wikipedia is.
 * Like every creature, Wikipedia needs resources. Please give them to us to live on.
 * We've given you reasons to love us, would you consider showing your love back?
 * Wikipedia is sustained by people like you. Please donate today.

Informal donation slogans
Donate and that teacher will forgive you for using Wikipedia!
 * Your donations keep Wikipedia running for another 3-4 months (or until Slashdot starts its death counter again)
 * Donate! or we'll introduce annoying adverts involving talking emoticons. You have been warned.
 * Give us your money or the puzzle globe gets it.
 * Please help us feed the servers
 * Please donate to keep Wikipe-tan from crying.
 * We make the Internet not suck. Help us out.
 * Donate. You'll get the warm fuzzies.
 * Slashdot! I want a word with you! We are not dying! (Er...yet. Donations, anyone?)
 * All your donations are belong to us.
 * In Soviet Russia, WIKIPEDIA DONATES YOU!
 * Only if you donate to Wikipedia do you get to learn all about the Quejibob
 * Without your donations, our monkeys will be out of work.
 * However we are free, our bandwidth isn't!
 * We so needy! We ruv your donations rong time!
 * Donate and you can join the Cabal!
 * If you don’t donate, WE FUCKIN’ KILL YOU! So I’d donate if I were you :]

Design

 * Multiple slogans at the same time
 * Centered
 * Bold
 * Large
 * Splash covering the Main Pageyt5yrty* Include a progress bar with an explicit or implicit goal.
 * There was one some years ago, then it was gone! — for me personally it is very important and I would like to see it before I donate a second time, Wikipedia has become less transparent
 * Mention matching contributions (note that if potential donors anticipate a match, they may avoid contributing unless a match is active)
 * Rainbow!