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+{{cquote|I support Wikimedia because it has been true to its mission and provided a highly valuable service without requiring anything from users, including the annoyance of ads. It is easy to forget that a decade ago we would have to take time to go to libraries to research much of what we can now find almost instantly from our computers and our smartphones. Search engines are great. But Wikipedia provides digests of the contents of the relevant links and the source references so that we can check the facts. I use Wikipedia several times a day without even thinking about it. But when I do, I am reminded that it is a grand project worthy of my financial support. }}
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 {{cquote|As I was writing my check to the Wikimedia Foundation I was thinking about the other very worthwhile organizations that could use my small donation this holiday season. I was laid off in June and am launching my own business and I thought about what brought me to Wikipedia today...I was looking up "XML Paper Specification." Then I thought about the hundreds of times I have used Wikipedia in the past and the “sometimes brief/sometimes in depth” information I have been able garner from its massive resources.
 It's funny when I was growing up my mom bought my brother and me the World Book Encyclopedia and every year for many years bought the annual update. She started when we were in elementary school. She is 83 now and just the other day I told her how much I appreciated that she had done that. It was so nice to have that type of reference in our home. My brother and I used it for so many school projects and I can remember using it almost reverently.