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+{{cquote|When I was a little child I wanted to know everything there is to know about the world. I used to read whole encyclopaedias just for fun. I felt my brain needed to absorb everything just like exercising your muscles to stay fit. Then the world wide web came into my life. My first CD-ROM-encyclopaedia was Encarta. With the internet I discovered Wikipedia and my view on finding information  changed. As a teacher i am confronted with pupils who do not really want to learn anything. Using Wikipedia in classroom changed their point of view drastically. Once we talked about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, they did not know, what it was. One of my students took out his cellphone (which is actually not allowed in class, but I thought, I'd let him use it for the sake of it) and read, what information Wikipedia had on this matter. All students thought, there is no such thing as a garbage patch far far away from Europe actually caused by us. This changed the view on the world for at least my class forever. For the first time they got an idea of what actually happens outside the boundaries of their home country and that everything we do can cause turmoil on the other side of the globe. Thank you, Wikipedia, for providing this piece of information including all the great pictures and diagrams. Carry on like this.}}
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 {{cquote|I work for a federal agency doing policy research and always use Wikipedia to discover primary sources that I hadn't seen before. What prompted my donation was the extraordinary linkage of wikipedia content with google maps: a stunning achievement in sharing human knowledge and of technology!}}