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Mathieu | Friday, November 7th, 2008 | No Comments »Wikipedia is a free online multi-lingual encyclopedia founded in March 2009 (it was called nupedia then and was only in English). Wikipedia is editable by anyone and in addition to contributing to exisiting entries, users can create entirely new ones.
Consider this: if you wanted to search a printed encyclopedia for information on the 2008 presidential election, you would be almost guaranteed not to find anything. An online encyclopedia, not editable by users … like encyclopedia.com would return entries like “presidential records act” and unrelated material.
However, a search on Wikipedia.org would return a page with information the campaign of both Obama and McCain, what the issues of the day was, election controversies and many other topics relating to the campaign.
Wikipedia.org is free. Access to knowledge is an extremely empowering opportunity and it’s an important cause to support.
Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales said it best:
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”
I encourage you to donate $1, $5, $10, $30 or more to this worthwhile cause.
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