Tell us your Wikipedia stories!
We're looking for your stories about why you care about Wikipedia.

Every year, we raise our budget in a 6-week fundraiser. Most Wikimedia readers don't even know that our projects are created by volunteers and funded entirely by voluntary donations. The fundraiser is a chance to teach the world how special Wikimedia projects really are.

Therefore, it's not a surprise that the most effective fundraising technique is for Wikimedia contributors to tell the stories of why they spend so much time working on their projects and why they believe in the future and promise of their projects. Only about one out of 1,000 Wikimedia users donate. The more effectively we tell our stories, the more people donate.

Please add your voice to this year's fundraiser by submitting your story in the form below.

The Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising tests show that the following elements really work well:

* A personal detail about yourself -- What do you do for a living? Where did you grow up?
* What in your life story led you to start contributing to a Wikimedia project and keep doing it?
* Why do you spend so much time contributing to a Wikimedia project? What would you be doing with that time if the Wikimedia movement never happened?


Thank you for the work you do on your project, and thank you for helping out with the annual fundraiser this year by submitting your story.
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By filling in this form you are supplying personal information to Wikimedia UK, the UK chapter of the Wikimedia movement. You can see our website at uk.wikimedia.org. If you supply your email address you agree that we can get in touch with you regarding what you've told us. We will not use any of the personal information you supply on this form to send you any marketing material. We will use the information you supply for the purpose of research and analysis. We will not share or publish the information you give us in any way that identifies you unless we receive your explicit permission to do so (i.e. we get in touch with you and you say yes).

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