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+{{cquote|Commercialization invades, cheapens, and violates every aspect of our lives. It seems there is no way to escape it. I must even endure commercials in the cable TV I buy and the movies I pay to see. The fact that a world class repository of information like this can be accessed without the proliferation of ridiculous, insulting, and distracting advertisements is phenomenal.
+To find an encyclopedia that essentially embodies the collective global knowledge in a concise, organized, and consistent format is truly auspicious. The fact that it can be accessed without charge defies logic.
+Finding answers to things without having to plow through volumes of poorly organized websites with biased, dated, and misleading information or marketing nonsense is absolutely priceless.
+As a matter of principal I am on a personal crusade to circumvent, as much as I can, the boorish commercial rhetoric that I am inundated with daily.  Your unbelievably outstanding service is the manifestation of that vision. If I had the means I would donate a fortune to this.
+Kudos to Jimmy Wales and his exceptional band of colleagues for having such a profound and significant positive impact on the human experience! }}
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 {{cquote| I used Wikipedia as a small writing assignment in my introductory archaeology class.  I asked students to look at wikipedia pages on archaeological sites to identify what makes a good page and then asked them to critique pages that are incomplete.  The goal of this assignment is to encourage them to be good consumers of information about archaeology. I am donating a $1 for each member of the class. }}