Rakadason di Fundus
Who are we?
The Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising team cultivates the resources that propel our movement. We engage millions of people from countries across the globe to support Wikipedia and its sister projects. The overwhelming majority of the Foundation's funding comes from individual readers from all over the world giving an average of $11.
Donations help the Wikimedia Foundation maintain server infrastructure, improve the software that supports our projects, and make Wikipedia and its sister projects accessible globally to millions of people. For additional information, please see the 2024–2025 Fundraising Report.
Current fundraising activities
Operated by Wikimedia Foundation
For the Financial Year 25/26
Q3 and Q4 FY25/26 campaigns:
- Italy campaign. Email: 3 febreru-24 febreru, Banners: 3 marsu-31 marsu. Here are some email examples: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Czech Republic campaign. Email: 23 febreru-20 marsu, Banners: 31 marsu-28 abril. Here is an Email example: Power Email
- Sweden campaign. Email: 6 abril-1 mói, Banners: 6 abril-4 mói. Here are some email examples: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Portugal campaign. Email: 8 junhu-12 junhu, Banners: 6 abril-4 mói. Here are some email examples: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Belgium campaign. Email: 16 febreru-13 marsu, Banners: 5 mói-2 junhu Here are some email examples: Email 1 English Email 2 English Email 3 English Email 4 English Email 1 Dutch Email 2 Dutch Email 3 Dutch Email 4 Dutch Email 1 FrenchEmail 2 French Email 3 French Email 4 French
- Latvia campaign. Email: 3 marsu-24 marsu, Banners: 5 mói-2 junhu. Here are some email examples: Please note, emails will only be sent in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Luxembourg campaign. Email: 3 marsu-24 marsu, Banners: 5 mói-2 junhu Here are some email examples: Please note, emails will only be sent in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Poland campaign. Email: 3 marsu-24 marsu, Banners: 5 mói-2 junhu Here are some email examples: Please note, emails will only be sent in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Romania campaign. Email: 3 marsu-24 marsu, Banners: 5 mói-2 junhu Here are some email examples: Please note, emails will only be sent in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Slovakia campaign. Email: 3 marsu-24 marsu, Banners: 5 mói-2 junhu Here are some email examples: Please note, emails will only be sent in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Spain campaign. Email: 9 marsu-3 abril, Banners: 5 mói-2 junhu. Here are some example Emails: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Japan campaign. Email: 4 mói-29 mói, Banners: 2 junhu-30 junhu. Here are some email examples: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Austria campaign. Email: 17 marsu-7 abril, Banners: 2 junhu-30 junhu. Here are some email examples: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Denmark campaign. Email: 1 junhu-26 junhu, Banners: 2 junhu-30 junhu. Here are some email examples: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Greece campaign. Email: 18 mói-22 mói, Banners: 2 junhu-30 junhu Here are some email examples: Greek example, English example
- Malaysia campaign. Email: 3 marsu-24 marsu, Banners: 2 junhu-30 junhu Here are some email examples: Please note, emails will only be sent in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- South Africa campaign. Email: 1 junhu-26 junhu, Banners: 2 junhu-30 junhu Here are some email examples: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- Norway campaign. Email: 3 marsu-24 marsu, Banners: 2 junhu-30 junhu Here are some email examples: Please note, emails will only be sent in English: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
- English campaign. Email: 30 marsu-17 abril
- Hungary campaign. Email: 1 junhu-26 junhu. Here are some example emails: Email 1, Email 2, Email 3, Email 4
For the Financial year 2026/27
- English fundraising campaign in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, and the US will start with testing in July 2026. You can find all information around this closer to the time on the Fundraising Hub
- Latin American fundraising campaign in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Banners 3rd to 31st of August 2026. Emails 13th of July to 31st of August 2026.
- Brazil fundraising campaign. Banners 3rd to 31st of August 2026. Emails 13th of July to 31st of August 2026.
- Dutch fundraising campaign. Banners 1st – 29th of September 2026. Emails 3rd to 31st of August 2026.
- Austria fundraising campaign. Banners 2nd to 30th of September 2026. Emails
- Denmark fundraising campaign. Banners 2nd to 30th of September 2026. Emails
- Greece fundraising campaign. Banners 2nd to 30th of September 2026. Emails
- Malaysia fundraising campaign. Banners 2nd to 30th of September 2026. Emails
- South Africa fundraising campaign. Banners 2nd to 30th of September 2026. Emails
- Hungary fundraising campaign. Banners 2nd to 30th of September 2026. Emails
- France fundraising campaign. Banners 1st to 29th of October 2026. Emails 3rd of August to 1st of October 2026.
| Community collaboration pages around WMF's fundraising campaigns 2022/23 |
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Contact Us
- We have an FAQ for donors and one for community members.
- Please stay in contact with us on the fundraising talk page.
- IRC channel: #wikimedia-fundraisingconnect (publicly logged)
- To report technical software bugs in Phabricator, follow mw:How to report a bug and use the #wikimedia-fundraising project tag.
- For a breakdown of how fundraising tech uses Phabricator, check out this wikitech page.
- For a calendar of all central-notice banners, including fundraising, see CentralNotice/Calendar.
Fundraising updates
See the full archive
Documents, Reports, Articles, Videos and more
Articles:
How does the Wikimedia Foundation use donations to Wikipedia?
Building a secure financial future for Wikipedia by Lisa Seitz Gruwell
Foundation 360 Building the relationships and resources we need to thrive Interview with Megan Hernandez, Advancement Department
The finances of free knowledge Lessons in transparency and impact by Jaime Villagomez
7 reasons you should donate to Wikipedia by Lisa Seitz Gruwell
Reports and Documents:
Fundraising Content Strategy Overview
2025/26 Q4 Update
We finished the financial year 2025/26 with reaching our revenue target and would like to thank everyone who made this possible, donors, volunteers, and Foundation staff.
In Q4, we ran fundraising campaigns in many countries across the globe, from Spain, to South Africa, Japan, and Malaysia. You can find all the relevant community collaboration pages above. We engaged our local communities beforehand, via the community collaboration pages.
We also prepared for the new financial year and started July off with updating the Fundraising Hub, a page we created on English Wikipedia as a more permanent home for engagement between the English Wikipedia community and the fundraising team.
I hope my modest contribution will help Wikipedia/Wikimedia continue its valuable existence and contribution to human intelligence. Although people seem to be focused on AI these days, human intelligence like yours is the basis of any AI activities. Without your knowledge, AI cannot implement their activities. (Donor from Japan).
We are looking forward to continuing engaging with several communities in Q1 of the new financial year.
2025/26 Q3 Update
During Q3 the fundraising team focused on finalising the Big English fundraising campaign through a Thank you email campaign and the campaign community recap. At the same time, the team started preparing for the international email campaigns that launched in late Q3 in Italy, Belgium, Spain, Austria, and The Netherlands, as well as the Italian banner campaign during March (community collaboration page).
Planning for Q4 is underway when many more international campaigns are taking place across the globe (see full calendar above).
See also
- Erik Moeller and Domas Mituzas on fundraising since 2010