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There’s a worldwide army of nerds on Wikipedia. Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been a total nerd about gastropods – slimy little creatures like the land snails you find in your garden. They’re my passion. The amazing thing about Wikipedia is that nerds like me, who love weird things like gastropods, get to come together and share our passion with the world. That’s what makes Wikipedia so magical – there’s this unspoken light inside all of us that comes from the desire to help educate, to help share knowledge. If you stop and think for even a second, you realize how fabulous it is to get this information without a pay-wall, and without having to read ads. It’s like the voice of sanity in a crazy, consumerist world. It’s almost impossible to believe that Wikipedia could exist, or that it’s supported by these tiny little donations, people like you giving just $10 or $25. Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. Wikipedia only has 400 servers and 73 staff. Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 454 million different people every month – with billions of page views. If you benefit from Wikipedia, you have a sort of moral obligation to kick in at least a small amount of cash to support it. Please donate $5, $10, $20 or whatever you can today to protect and sustain Wikipedia. Susan Hewitt''' Wikipedia Author