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{{cquote|As a translator, I find it very useful that articles in Wikipedias in different languages are cross-linked. In this way, it often only takes a few seconds to see the translation of the name of an institution, person, saint, etc. Recently I was translating an essay on Papal Designation from Czech to English, full of Czech names of saints and popes, and Wikipedia did for me in a matter of minutes what would have taken me half a day looking up in the local library or browsing random sites in the Internet! }} |
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{{cquote|I am a dermatology professor in a near-Cairo university. About 5 years ago I was preparing a lecture for my students. Every time I made a search for my subject search results return fine material but I was unable to use them as they all required me to pay an amount of US dollars that nearly equal my monthly sallary. Then I found wikipedia and when I found thatt information is valuable and free I started to to search for a "catch" like:"for full article pay...I found no catch. since then I looked at wikipedia as my first, respectable source of knowledge starting from sofisicated science to the meaning of the lyrics of the songs that I liked in the senenties. Thanks for wikipedia and thank you for and feeling that allover the world there are people who need information but can not pay for it.}} |
{{cquote|I am a dermatology professor in a near-Cairo university. About 5 years ago I was preparing a lecture for my students. Every time I made a search for my subject search results return fine material but I was unable to use them as they all required me to pay an amount of US dollars that nearly equal my monthly sallary. Then I found wikipedia and when I found thatt information is valuable and free I started to to search for a "catch" like:"for full article pay...I found no catch. since then I looked at wikipedia as my first, respectable source of knowledge starting from sofisicated science to the meaning of the lyrics of the songs that I liked in the senenties. Thanks for wikipedia and thank you for and feeling that allover the world there are people who need information but can not pay for it.}} |
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