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Wikipedia is written by thousands of volunteers who believe in sharing knowledge -- each with a different interest or passion.

During our fundraising campaign, you’ve heard from Susan Hewitt who writes about molluscs, and Karthik Nadar, who writes about his home city of Mumbai, India. I’m a transportation engineer and I write mostly about air transportation in Brazil.

Whatever you’re looking for, someone fascinated with that topic has probably written hundreds of pages for you to read -- all for free. Think of us the next time you look up something like Estonian mythology, the Sigur Rós album Ágætis byrjun, or the Constitution of San Marino. Maybe those aren’t your subjects, but I bet you look up equally fascinating but seldom read articles all the time.

Of course, you are invited to edit Wikipedia too. But there’s another way you can help.

The infrastructure on which we work is paid for by donations from readers: technology and servers, a small staff, a legal team who protect our independence. Please pitch in $5, $20, $50 or whatever you can to help us.

And thank you for using Wikipedia,

Thanks,

Bruno Linhares

Wikipedia Author