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{{cquote|Last week I introduced my 79 year old mother to surfing the internet. No basic introduction to the web would be complete without showing her Wikipedia and the infinate possibilities for information, discovery and learning. Her eyes lit-up as though she was reading from scrolls in the ancient library at Alexandria. She shook her head with childlike amazement, swallowed hard and exclaimed, "That's the most incredible thing I've ever seen. Wow! I can't beleive this wonderful thing". She was in awe. She read about Saltzburg, Austria, her childhood home, she read about Shih-Tzu dogs, her beloved and recently passed Peppy Le-Pew, and she read about gardening and flowers, her one true love in retirement. She was liteally overwhelmend by the sheer volume of information and a thousand other things. |
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{{cquote|Wikipedia is more than an online reference site to me. Nine times out of ten, a Google search for whatever random concept or term I'm thinking about at the moment will have a Wikipedia page in the top five results. The professionalism, knowledge and dedication it takes to make this happen is testament to the awesome power of Wikipedia and its role as one of the cornerstones of the Internet. |
{{cquote|Wikipedia is more than an online reference site to me. Nine times out of ten, a Google search for whatever random concept or term I'm thinking about at the moment will have a Wikipedia page in the top five results. The professionalism, knowledge and dedication it takes to make this happen is testament to the awesome power of Wikipedia and its role as one of the cornerstones of the Internet. |
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Wikipedia is Changing Lives
Here are just a few of the amazing stories that our users shared with us. We thank them for their willingness to tell their story about Wikipedia.
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