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I’ve written 169 articles, most of them about Brazilian airports and airlines...that you’ll probably never read.

But how many equally fascinating but seldom read articles have you searched for on Wikipedia this month? Things like Estonian mythology, the Sigur Rós album Ágætis byrjun, or the Constitution of San Marino. That’s what makes Wikipedia so useful: whatever you’re looking for, someone fascinated with that topic has probably written hundreds of pages about it for you to read -- all for free.

No article has any author’s name on it. But there are hundreds of thousands of us. You can be one too if you just click “edit.”

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 three-person legal team who protect our independence.

Please pitch in $5, $20, $50 or whatever you can to help us.

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

Multiply our interests by thousands of other volunteers’ interests and that’s what you have to thank for Wikipedia.

Please pitch in a few dollars to help protect and sustain Wikipedia.

Thanks,

Bruno Linhares

Wikipedia Author