“I donated because I couldn’t justify *not* doing so. Wikipedia has been a constant and reliable source of information for me, both for personal entertainment and business purposes.

Wikipedia contains the most relevant information on every topic imaginable; content is updated at the speed of current relevance, and errors are quickly eradicated by wary and knowing users.

This site has placed the Age of Information into the hands of the common person: People like me. People like you. There is nothing more powerful than an immediately editable knowledge base given to a global body of users.

You trust your users to do the right thing.
We trust Wikipedia to give us the truth.”

I encourage others to donate.
This site is invaluable.

I applaud the idea of paid advertising as it may eventually lead to paid staff that could create, edit or moderate truly encyclopedic articles.

Of course bias would exist in a profit based model, but my opinion is that there would be far less bias than that which currently exists.

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