Wikipedia is awesome! I refer to it a lot when I’m researching and writing. Do you use it? Maybe you’ll help keep it free…
Wikipedia is a non-profit organization that provides a tremendously valuable source of free (and constantly updated) information to all of us. Right now they are in fundraising mode. That only happens once per year.
Here’s what it says on Wikipedia’s page:
What I love about the annual Wikimedia Foundation Fundraiser is that it proves all the cynics wrong. By traffic, we’re the #5 web property in the world, serving 422 million people last month — 12 billion times. But we are funded entirely by voluntary donations. No government grants, no corporate sponsors, no ads. Each year, we ask our readers to pitch in “$5, $10 or $20 to keep Wikipedia free” and, so far, they’ve always met the need. When we reach the goal, we stop asking. [Read more]
Your donation celebrates everything Wikipedia stands for: the power of information to help people live better lives, and the importance of sharing, freedom, learning and discovery.
Help keep Wikipedia freely available for its 364 million readers around the world.
These funds support technology and people. The Wikimedia Foundation develops and improves the technology behind Wikipedia, and sustains the infrastructure that keeps it up and running. The foundation has a staff of just thirty-five, which provides technical, administrative, legal and outreach support for the global community of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia.
Are you willing to be one of us that supports this site dedicated to free knowledge?
If you are, go here:
Leave a comment and let us know how you use Wikipedia! I’d love to hear your stories about it.
Thanks for giving us this opportunity! I LOVE Wikipedia. I use it for all sorts of things. In fact, earlier, I was looking up a French word and it came up on Wikipedia. LOVE LOVE LOVE that site! Thanks for the heads up and how we can all keep it alive and FREE! You are awesome Deb!
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Wikipedia really helps me with my researches even when I was in college. I will definitely contribute to keep it free..
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I couldn’t imagine not having Wikipedia for a quick reference on something.
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Isn’t it amazing that such a huge resource that most of us make use of at least on a semi-regular basis is ran and offered to us for free? We need more people who care about helping out like this! Thanks for bringing this to my (and many other people’s) attention. ~David Walker
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Wikipedia is a free and unique information-rich-portal which is already ready to give you your desired information at any time. We need to support such organization and they’re keep doing this work from last many years. This is a great service available to the world and we should be thankful to their amazing work.
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Wikipedia is awesome. It’s a demonstration about why the internet is so awesome. There’s this completely free resource where everyone can collaborate to provide free information to the public. I use it a lot as well!
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Way back when I’m in college, it my number one source of my researches result! Without it, maybe I’ve failed. It should be free as the way it used to be. Hope Wikipedia can get the fund they’ve needed to be able to make it.
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I added some content on my own knowledge and research in Wikipedia. I think that if people share some of their knowledge publicly then Wikipedia can help alot of people for free.
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Wikipedia’s staffs and its owner’s is not just thinking about the money they are gaining or the popularity they took. But the information they are giving not just to a stick, but to a whole bundle of sticks. Hoped its not goin to be premium on the future years.
It’s for a great cause. Thank you for the link, going over there right now. It’s a small amount to pay, in exchange, we continue to get great service from them. And to think that a lot of people depend on wikipedia for information, we can’t afford to lose them.
Wikipedia is like an utopia. I use it all the time when I’m writing articles on ezinearticles as well as for my school papers. It would be a pity if they went commercial.
On a sidenote I just donated 10$ to wikipedia – it’s not much but it’s all I can spare since I’m a college student
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I can’t imagine how would I survive my thesis making days if Wikipedia doesn’t exist. We should join the campaign to make it the widest free information source in the web.
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Wikipedia is LOVE! It is the most trusted information source online and it is such a reputable website. They don’t run with ads even when lots of advertisers are more than willing to offer them. I have read the letter from Wiki’s president and it was really touching.
I hope more people, especially the big online entrepreneurs, donate to the website.
I use Wikipedia for finding information about sporting personalities. I know if I type in a football players name, almost always, Wikipedia will return in first place and the information it provides is definitive giving a complete timeline of the players background and career, it’s helped solve many an argument. All without a page full of adverts.
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I’m in. Thanks for reminding me. I saw the banner ad when I was doing some research but decided to go back later to make a donation. I forgot! On my way now though.
Wikipedia rocks!
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Your right about Wikipedia Deb, this is a good website that contain detailed information about certain things. I refer into it when I some new stuff or things that I find useful. I also used it when I like to look at the history of a company or a well known person in the industry. Wikipedia also help me understand Search Engine Optimization.
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