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{{cquote|My great grandfather who I am named after donated his lifes work and in the end his life at 35,a young age. He was born in Peru on a ship when his life began, ending in New York in 1895,where he was a research doctor in biology working on a cure for Cholera. I am honored with his name. I also want to do something for the good of mankind, so I donate this small amount as be a part of a better world as you do with your free service. I am a Navy veteran from the Vietnam era and glad I served my country.}} |
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{{cquote|Wikipedia is beyond anything I could have hoped for as a child growing up - I'm driven by an insatiable need to know, to understand, to explore. I'm restless until I find the answer to something I want to know about, and Wikipedia has put the knowledge of a whole Universe at my fingertips. Not only can I look up what I desire to know, but the journey of insight and exploration that follows never fails to amaze me. Just last night, I looked up a historical event that was on a TV program - from there, I found myself jumping from pages of history to pages of medicine, and from there to pages of cultural and ethnic customs, and from there to geography and onward to exotic flora and fauna. By the time the night was over I had read more than 100 articles and was amazed yet again by the complexity of our small world, one of only billions in our Universe, at the frailty and ingenuity of humanity, at the immense diversity that surrounds each and every one of us every day - and all that we can embrace and understand, if only we open our eyes.}} |
{{cquote|Wikipedia is beyond anything I could have hoped for as a child growing up - I'm driven by an insatiable need to know, to understand, to explore. I'm restless until I find the answer to something I want to know about, and Wikipedia has put the knowledge of a whole Universe at my fingertips. Not only can I look up what I desire to know, but the journey of insight and exploration that follows never fails to amaze me. Just last night, I looked up a historical event that was on a TV program - from there, I found myself jumping from pages of history to pages of medicine, and from there to pages of cultural and ethnic customs, and from there to geography and onward to exotic flora and fauna. By the time the night was over I had read more than 100 articles and was amazed yet again by the complexity of our small world, one of only billions in our Universe, at the frailty and ingenuity of humanity, at the immense diversity that surrounds each and every one of us every day - and all that we can embrace and understand, if only we open our eyes.}} |
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{{cquote|Wikipedia for me encapsulates what a group of people can do together. Most of them will not have met, and yet there is still a sense of community (including the differing points of view and bickering ;-)! The ethos of openness, sharing and giving of time for no immediate financial return is heartwarming, and its rise from a source (that still has is nay-sayers) that is growing in credibility illustrates that (as long as searchers also have evaluative skills and ability to spot bias) the knowledge of the whole is far greater than an individual publisher.}} |
{{cquote|Wikipedia for me encapsulates what a group of people can do together. Most of them will not have met, and yet there is still a sense of community (including the differing points of view and bickering ;-)! The ethos of openness, sharing and giving of time for no immediate financial return is heartwarming, and its rise from a source (that still has is nay-sayers) that is growing in credibility illustrates that (as long as searchers also have evaluative skills and ability to spot bias) the knowledge of the whole is far greater than an individual publisher.}} |
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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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- From our 2009-2010 fundraiser
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You can find the article that Adama started in the French Wikipedia: Agnam-Goly.
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