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+{{cquote|I don't have a single story about Wikipedia or anything that stands out but Wikipedia has become a intregal part of my daily habits and search for information.  Wikipedia has been the answer to most of my questions over the last few years.  Whether it is a term or concept at work I need more information on or a spur of the moment question in a social setting such as who played guitar on a particular album or curiousity on the "real facts" after watching a movie or sorting the titles in a book series I have downloaded -- Wikipedia has replaced almost every other site I used to go to in order to answer questions.  At work we are trying to create a wiki to organize the knowledge and best known methods of my company.  I also use the Wiki for World of Warcraft regularly as well as the Wheel of Time Wiki in order to keep track of the many characters in Robert Jordan's books.  Over the years I have seen most information that I used to get on other sites migrate to Wikipedia or a specialized wiki.  Wikipedia is the first and increasingly the best place to find information for me and most of the people I know.  I trust most of the information I find and if I am unsure, I look up the history and discussions on the people who are contributing to a topic. I see Wikipedia as one of the top 10 reasons for having the internet.  It has revolutionized how we get, categorize, manage, and contribute to the information stores of the world.  I cannot imagine going back to the days before Wikipedia.}}
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 {{cquote|In an age where we all joke about losing 'faith in humanity', Wikipedia is something that helps us regain it. Think about it: volunteers writing articles, creating an online library and online world-wide encyclopedia for no monetary benefit. That is something people do. Might be a stretch, but that is humanity. Not an all every-man-for-themselves, but an actual global community sharing information. A world separated by time zones, language and beliefs reunited in something as simple as shared knowledge. An article might just be an article, and editing/creating/updating an article might seem like nothing at all. But neither is a grain of sand by itself. When you put it together with the millions of others who edit, share, write, update and utilize this knowledge, you have the largest