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<p>I got a lot of funny looks ten years ago when I started talking to people about Wikipedia.</p>
<p>Let’s just say some of the business typespeople were skeptical of the notion that volunteers from all across the world could come together to create a remarkable pool of human knowledge – all for the simple purpose of sharing.</p>
<p>No ads. No profitsagenda. No agendastrings attached.</p>
<p>A decade after its founding, morenearly than 380400 million people use Wikipedia and its sister sites every month -– almost a third of the Internet-connected world.</p>
<p>It is the 5th most popular website in the world – but Wikipedia isn’t anything like a commercial website. It Theis othera fourcommunity havecreation, beenwritten builtby andvolunteers maintainedmaking withone billionsentry at a time. You are part of dollarsour incommunity. investment,And I’m writing today to ask hugeyou corporateto staffsprotect and relentlesssustain marketingWikipedia.</p>
<p>Together, we can keep it free of charge and free of advertising. We can keep it open – you can use the information in Wikipedia any way you want. We can keep it growing – spreading knowledge everywhere, and inviting participation from everyone. </p>▼<p>But, Wikipedia isn’t anything like a commercial website. It is a community creation, written by volunteers making one entry at a time. You are part of our community. And I’m writing today to ask you to protect and sustain Wikipedia.</p>
<p>Each year at this time, we reach out to ask you and others all across the Wikimedia community to help sustain our joint enterprise with a modest donation of $20, $35, $50 or more. </p>▼▲<p>Together, we can keep it free of charge and free of advertising. We can keep it open – you can use the information in Wikipedia any way you want. We can keep it growing – spreading knowledge everywhere, and inviting participation from everyone.</p>
<p>If you value Wikipedia as a source of information – and a source of inspiration – I hope you’ll choose to act right now. </p>▼▲<p>Each year at this time, we reach out to ask you and others all across the Wikimedia community to help sustain our joint enterprise with a modest donation of $20, $35, $50 or more.</p>
▲<p>If you value Wikipedia as a source of information – and a source of inspiration – I hope you’ll choose to act right now.</p>
<p>'''Jimmy Wales''' </p>▼
<p>Founder, Wikipedia </p>▼▲<p>'''Jimmy Wales'''</p>
<p>P.S. Wikipedia is about the power of people like us to do extraordinary things. People like us write Wikipedia, one word at a time. People like us fund it, one donation at a time. It's proof of our collective potential to change the world. </p>▼▲<p>Founder, Wikipedia</p>
▲<p>P.S. Wikipedia is about the power of people like us to do extraordinary things. People like us write Wikipedia, one word at a time. People like us fund it, one donation at a time. It's proof of our collective potential to change the world.</p>
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