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  • "such an extremely profound and broad fountain of knowledge being made accessible to all is highly commendable! wikipedia has been of immense use to me. " — lawrence obisakin, donated 50 USD
  • "Keep up the good work" — Fahad Alsaeed, donated 30 USD
  • "Wikipedia is my go-to source for information. I can't imagine life without it anymore." — Riaz Dini, donated 10 USD
  • "This is freedom of information, and it's my freedom to freely give big bucks for this service." — Jonathan Neufeld, donated 100 USD
  • "Wikipedia is an amazing resource, with content from a global community! Amazing. " — Jason Korosec, donated 30 USD
  • "Here's to more curious people." — Anonymous, donated 30 USD
  • "I love wikipedia - I hope it keeps going strong" — Anonymous, donated 10.01 CAD
  • "The source of knowledge and its retrieval speed is excellent." — Bernard Brennan, donated 30 USD
  • "I'll gladly pay something for the valuable services you provide." — Timon Kuik, donated 15 EUR
  • "You answer the question." — Anonymous, donated 20 CAD
  • "Flippin sweet website. Always use it as my first reference." — Alex Gibson, donated 10 USD
  • "It is better to have Wikipedia than to curse the darkness." — Michael Albert, donated 120 USD
  • "Thank you to those who build Wikipedia out of concern, kindness, and passion. Down with ignorance and bias!" — jay walsh, donated 100 USD
  • "Wiki is a useful resource & I like the way it is laye dout. Wish I could give more. " — Anonymous, donated 5 USD
  • "Wikipedia has embarked on a noble cause to illuminate the world with knowledge and all of us must do our bit to support this." — Rakesh Nair, donated 15 USD
  • "We all have something to give and something to obtain from others... free knowledge share is the dream of mankind" — Julio Salas, donated 10 USD
  • "Let us go forward, step by step." — 聡寛 山地, donated 5 USD
  • "Wikipedia is awesome" — Anonymous, donated 25 USD
  • "In 2007 after suffering post-traumatic psychosis from loss of immediate access to information it is rumored that I fell into a frenzy screaming "I want my WIKI". [citation need]" — Shell Walker, donated 20 USD
  • "An amazing resource for the world. Thank you for helping make information freely available for everyone. " — Wai-Man Kam, donated 30 CAD
  • "I am honoured to contribute to WIKIPEDIA. This is such an amazing source of wide variety of info" — Anil Aleti, donated 5 USD
  • "Thanks for solving a lot of the discussions with my friends at the office." — Carlos Cheng, donated 10 USD
  • "I always use. Feelings of gratitude." — SOICHIRO BAJO, donated 1000 JPY
  • "Thank you!!!!" — Susan Joyce, donated 100 USD
  • "Tämä tulee pitkässä juoksussa halvemmaksi kuin tietokirjasarjan osto.." — Jussi Kauppinen, donated 30 EUR
  • "share and collaborate" — Alexander Betser, donated 10 USD
  • "It maybe a brand new world but a little green never hurts…" — Gordon Brislawn, donated 75 USD
  • "毎日のように利用しています。感謝の気持ちとしてほんの少しで恐縮ですが寄付させていただきます。" — 和弘 中村, donated 3000 JPY
  • "Thanks Wiki, for helping me satisfy my curiosity." — Alice Ma, donated 30 AUD
  • "It is great to see such an idea come to reality and work" — CARLOS GARCIA SUAREZ, donated 10 EUR
  • "いつも、重宝させていただいております。雑学好きには、たまりません。ありがとうございます。" — 年克 高畑, donated 3000 JPY
  • "I think it used to be a dream that the knowlege is free to access, for everybody, and you've made it come true. you have changed the world. I can't say thanks enough mate." — Anonymous, donated 100 AUD
  • "By using oil and wood, we are making the Earth lighter, which means it is getting closer to the Sun. Plant trees now to save the Earth!" — Anonymous, donated 100 USD
  • "Thanks for being there when I needed you most. I am very happy to see that a service such as this one exists. I hope that this service survives the test of time. I would give more if I had it. TYVM." — Lenny Altamura, donated 30 USD
  • "Amazing repository of information..hats off to the Team!!" — Maria Kiruba, donated 30 USD
  • "wooooooooo wikipedia!" — John Bryan, donated 8 USD
  • "Wikipediaはインターネットの世界の理想郷だと思っています。" — Anonymous, donated 500 JPY
  • "Long Live this revolution of assorted human knowledge!" — Amlan Chatterjee, donated 30 USD
  • "If we all donate $10, the puppies will be safe. WikiX too..." — Anonymous, donated 10 USD
  • "Aiutare gli altri serve ad aiutare noi stessi" — Anonymous, donated 5 EUR
  • "Nur einen Herzschlag! me@parado.ch" — Christian Wiegel, donated 50 EUR
  • "Thanks for this useful and wonderful project" — Anonymous, donated 50 EUR
  • "Mille mercis et milles bravos pour le travail accompli. Il m'enrichit chaque jours (de connaissances)!" — Jean-Marc GOLLIER, donated 30 EUR
  • "Love Wikipedia. Keep Information Free. www.ITMComputing.com - Clyde Lerner" — Clyde Lerner, donated 30 USD
  • "Enjoy the free web" — marc brakels, donated 15 EUR
  • "With a huge amount of information available within a person's fingertips, WIKIPEDIA has made millions of people knowledgeable every second of the day." — Anonymous, donated 15 CAD
  • "pforzheim ist hässlich" — Michael Helfmann, donated 30 EUR
  • "When all is the world lay in ruins, who will read wikipedia?" — Anonymous, donated 30 AUD
  • "An invaluable resource. What would you pay for a book that offered such content??" — Sam Nicholson, donated 30 AUD
  • "Free, quick and easy knowledge for all equals exponential growth for all." — Grant Dinse, donated 75 AUD
  • "Thank you for absence of commerce and bias, and thank you volunteers for the wonderful content." — Marcelis Alexander Varkevisser, donated 30 USD
  • "Forza Wiki :-)" — Matteo Di Palma, donated 5 EUR
  • "Wissen ist der naturliche Feind der Gewalt." — EDGAR SCHAEFER, donated 75 EUR
  • "Siete mitici." — Anonymous, donated 25 EUR
  • "I love the concept "Free Encyclopedia"." — Hsinchieh Kuo, donated 30 USD
  • "Best regards from Russia" — Andrew Belousoff, donated 30 USD
  • "I LOVE WIKI" — Sri Bhavani Chandu Bhuman, donated 5 GBP
  • "merci wikipedia" — Emeric GRANGE, donated 15 EUR
  • "SEMPER FI OOOO RAHHHH MARINE CORPS LCPL 4 LIFE" — Christopher Kuhn, donated 20 USD
  • "I give thanks to Wikimedia !" — TAKEO KITAHARA, donated 3000 JPY
  • "Energy is sacred I - II god is love" — Eric Rossen, donated 150 DKK
  • "if we evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys?????" — justin dallison, donated 5 GBP
  • "Knowledge is the key to a peaceful world!" — Mr. Alexander Erifiu, donated 5 EUR
  • "i like you" — Ислам Исаев, donated 30 USD
  • "Love is everything" — Jean-Claude ARNOUIL, donated 30 USD
  • "いつもお世話になっております。これからも宜しくお願いします。" — Anonymous, donated 3000 JPY
  • "free information in a free world" — Alberto Carrozzo, donated 5 EUR
  • "Knowledge is power" — Carlo Pacioselli, donated 5 EUR
  • "il sapere alla portata di tutti è una delle condizioni per la salvezza dell'umanità" — Gerardo Guerrieri, donated 25 EUR
  • "Colaborad con Wikipedia, una pequeña ayuda para que está gran herramienta siga a nuestro servicio" — Juan Seguí Moreno, donated 10 EUR
  • "Thanks!" — Anonymous, donated 30 USD
  • "Il sapere è la cosa più preziosa del mondo e voi con la vostra società non profit avete capito che è di tutti." — Mr. Luca Iovino, donated 5 EUR
  • "By sharing the knowlwedge we gain." — Ujjal Chakravartty, donated 10 USD
  • "Extaordinary how we can access thoroughly researched information. Thank you Wikimedia!" — Anonymous, donated 25 USD
  • "A minha primeira escolha" — Antonio Pinto, donated 10 EUR
  • "For further development" — Tetyana Vassiliou, donated 100 EUR
  • "We should support sites we use that are free yet undoubtably useful to us. I want to keep Wiki around." — Joy Phillips, donated 5 USD
  • "Love wiki, happy to support" — Damian Barry, donated 20 GBP
  • "Siete grandi, andate avanti così" — Anonymous, donated 25 EUR
  • "poursuivez !" — olivier henry, donated 30 EUR
  • "Sin cultura, no hay nada." — Oswaldo García, donated 20 EUR
  • "good job people!!" — fernando guillen suarez, donated 30 USD
  • "Danke." — Claus Scheiblauer, donated 30 EUR
  • "love ,only love becouse is to much hate in this small world" — Dritan Xheka, donated 30 EUR
  • "Over time, I have looked at Wikipedia more and more, and now it's my homepage." — Gareth Rees, donated 30 USD
  • "Ed Terry" — Edward Terry, donated 20 USD
  • "Thank you." — Anonymous, donated 30 CAD
  • "Gracias wikipedia, con esta ya van 5 veces las que me salvaste en 2 dias =3" — Mr. Antonio Ureña Fortuño, donated 30 EUR
  • "Please keep your excelent job! World need information!" — Paulo Junqueira da Costa, donated 30 USD
  • "Freedom, knowledge and democracy are all that the world needs to solve its problems." — Timur Saadetdin, donated 20 EUR
  • "Ein viktig sak!" — Eirik Birkeland, donated 200 NOK
  • "Wonder if you could peace in this world too." — Girish Raghavan, donated 30 USD
  • "Amazing work!" — Anonymous, donated 10 EUR
  • "BRAVO " — Jean-Marc Meichtry, donated 15 USD
  • "Thanks for useful wiki :) " — Anonymous, donated 1000 JPY
  • "Abe Mossop supports the Free Thinking Community !" — Anonymous, donated 75 EUR
  • "Push It Up!" — Joseph Puskar, donated 50 USD
  • "Thank you. " — William DESLONDES, donated 10 EUR
  • "We wish all the children a Merry Christmas and peaceful life. 5A & 5B girls IST Turin Italy" — Cristiana De Paoli, donated 100 USD
  • "Information needs to be free - it can be copied infinitely without consequence. However, the mediums of recording the information, and the delivery of, are finite and therefore have a price." — Brian Westgate, donated 30 USD
  • "Wikipedia is Best Pratices - CONSUMER REPORTS for the mind." — Chuck Lohre, donated 10 USD
  • "Knowledge is a fundamental right." — Jorge De la Cruz, donated 20 USD
  • "The fact I'd LIKE to contribute 10x more was making me shy about the contribution that I CAN make right now. But then I realized that a small real contribution is better than a big one in my dreams." — Eduardo Alves do Valle Junior, donated 20 USD
  • "人の、われわれの善良なる知性を信じてここに1票を投じることといたします。" — MASATO KOHARA, donated 3000 JPY
  • "Bon courage à vous et, svp, soyez toujours plus rigoureux sur la vérification d'informations. Merci." — Villain Renaud, donated 30 USD
  • "お世話になっております" — SHUNGO FUJITA, donated 3000 JPY
  • "Världens bästa webbsida!" — Dan Hallberg, donated 30 EUR
  • "I'm learning music through Wikipedia." — Anonymous, donated 30 CAD
  • "Wikipedia - das Beste was auf diesem Welt passieren kann !!!" — Vitali Schwab, donated 5 EUR
  • "Brain for everybody. " — Johannes Pannen, donated 13 USD
  • "A most wonderful resource. Can't imagine being without Wikipedia." — Michael Costello, donated 30 USD
  • "Wikipedia ist einfach super!" — Michael Stellpflug, donated 30 EUR
  • "Knowledge can save this World and Wikipedia spreads the knowledge." — William Bowden, donated 10 USD
  • "Wikipdedia rocks! My hope for the world is that we could live hunger free; and live in peace with each other." — mark kraft, donated 10 USD
  • "peace :-D" — Jangho Hwang, donated 30 USD
  • "A gladly given donation for an incredible concept of free information an." — Niels Flindt Koelmeyer, donated 50 DKK
  • "Excellent site - so full of useful information on so many subjects!!!" — Mr. Richard Embrey, donated 5 USD
  • "A wonderful tool for everyone" — Ms. Kristen Onken, donated 30 USD
  • "weil's fuer's studium unentbehrlich ist" — Anonymous, donated 10 EUR
  • "El conocimiento es poder" — Anonymous, donated 5 USD
  • "Wikipedia is this century's wonder of the world and the creators deserve the Nobel Peace Prize" — John Bestevaar, donated 10 AUD
  • "for a free world for free people, thanks from Spain" — juan duran, donated 10 EUR
  • "めざせ100万語!" — 秀俊 木ノ花, donated 10000 JPY
  • "Your provide such a great service, at the end of but a few keystrokes, that you deserve support!" — Robert Fearman, donated 25 USD
  • "love will always be worth more than anything else " — Michael Galvin, donated 87.22 USD
  • "considering how much you'd have to pay to buy this in stores..." — Joseph Madjar, donated 30 USD
  • "Thanks for being there first on the list" — Sudhagar Nagarajan, donated 10 USD
  • "The process of intellectual enfranchisement continues..." — howard suhr perez, donated 30 USD
  • "merci" — ueberecken jean-paul, donated 10 EUR
  • "Thank you for your service" — Bruce Radder, donated 10 USD
  • "People who think things like Wikipedia should be free are ****ing idiots." — Robert B Denny, donated 100 USD
  • "For a better encyclopedia..." — Jan Willem Janssen, donated 50 EUR
  • "Thanks" — Anonymous, donated 30 USD
  • "ההורים של הילי הקטנה בת ה-3 חודשים תורמים לטובת הידע שלה ושל שאר הילדודס" — Noa Cohen, donated 30 ILS
  • "The act of sharing knowledge is the sure way to overcome ignorance and prejudice, and so make the world a bettter place" — Paul Wood, donated 100 USD
  • "I'm using wikipedia every day, thanks for your reliability and content" — ludovic praud, donated 30 EUR
  • "In Denmark, you recieve money from the state for attending a free education.. If only more people in the world had an easy access to knowledge" — Anonymous, donated 1000 DKK
  • "greatest project worldwide" — dieter schoenegger, donated 100 USD
  • "Thank you, Wikipedia!!!" — Katie Schiavo, donated 30 USD
  • "I wish I could donate $1mn" — Tarun Bandi, donated 30 USD
  • "Thank you" — Aleksandr Sichkar, donated 30 USD
  • "Finalmente il sapere è libero" — Marco Catapano, donated 10 EUR
  • "Can't function without you!" — Karen Marshall, donated 30 USD
  • "Thanks wikipedia, it's because of you that I know more than I would have ever imagined." — Fidel Merino, donated 30 USD
  • "I am very glad that wikimedia exists and wish it a long and prosperous future." — Amber Hatfield, donated 10 USD
  • "Its a wonderful world of knowledge. We must learn to share and think and act as citizens,neighbors, brothers in this wolrd." — Lisandro Franky, donated 10 USD
  • "Wikipedia is Top Line. I love Wikipedia" — Jose Carlos Cunha, donated 30 USD
  • "Wikipedia has helped many times, it is time for me to pay back" — Andrea Simon, donated 30 EUR
  • "By the people, from the people, for the benefit of mankind, Freedom and debate must prevail." — Mr. Don A. Campbell, donated 20 GBP
  • "Wikipedia nos permite informarnos de todos los temas, de una manera rápida y eficaz.¡Enhorabuena¡" — jesús maría figueira conde tarjeta, donated 30 EUR
  • "In support of the reality-based community..." — Kevin L Sloan, donated 100 USD
  • "Thank you, Wikipedia. You're like a genie that grants an answer to my every question." — Dawn Pares, donated 10 USD
  • "http://www.thenewpush.com" — Balazs Nagy, donated 30 USD
  • "Awesome !" — Dino Michelon, donated 25 EUR
  • "Towards collective knowledge in use:-)" — Vaclav Belak, donated 500 CZK
  • "The Warbird Factory ( http://warbirds.tayoko.net ) supports Wikimedia because knowledge is freedom" — Robert Lenior, donated 15 USD
  • "Democratisation of information and giving all sides of a story." — adityq chhikara, donated 10 USD
  • "dobry napad - pomaha" — Alojz Kucharik, donated 10 USD
  • "A Heroic Effort for the benefit of man kind" — Benny Keshet, donated 30 USD
  • "Спасибо, что вы есть. Автор идеи - гений." — Alexander Mosin, donated 50 USD
  • "Help our knowledge to be spread" — DIMITRIOS PAPOUTSIS, donated 20 EUR
  • " My compliments to Wikimedia for the best ready inforrmation source yet devised. It merits the active and sustained support of everyone who uses its services t " — Andrew PITTERA, donated 200 USD
  • "Please help keep wikipedia going. It is worth so much to me on a daily basis." — DAVID B FIELDS, donated 5 USD
  • "Goed bezig wikipedia :]" — Martijn Symaeys, donated 5 EUR
  • "This site is a great tool to learn and reference too. I hope that everyone enjoys a site where all the worlds minds can come together and collaborate." — Lincoln Pitcher, donated 5 USD
  • "Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation...." — Matthew Meyers, donated 20 USD
  • "Je soutiens le projet avec ma petite contribution" — Anonymous, donated 30 CAD
  • "this might be the greatest internet project ever" — Anonymous, donated 5 EUR
  • "This is undoubtably the best site on the internet." — Mr. Bobby Eccleston, donated 100 USD
  • "I have used Wikipedia and TANSTAAFL. Thank you for your mostly accurate, highly entertaining service." — Cheryl Kaboos, donated 10 USD
  • "Wiki.... is a very good idea, wish I could afford more, a broother/sisterhood of informed people is far far better than a world at war!!" — Gerald Chesnut, donated 30 USD
  • "Wikipedia is my bible!" — Kelly Stevenson, donated 20 USD
  • "http://www.PicSpeicher.de" — Andreas Heinz, donated 10 EUR
  • "Möge dieses Projekt ewig Sein." — Heinz Krix, donated 14 EUR
  • "Thanks wikipedia, for keeping knowledge free and accessible." — Aditya Gottumukkala, donated 20 EUR
  • "Wikipedia is an invaluable resource , I would rate it the absolute best website on the net! " — Jurgen Braungardt, donated 30 USD
  • "Gracias por todo el apoyo que nos brindan" — Alberto Pérez Acasuso, donated 5 USD
  • "be the change you wish to see in the world! wikipedia is great, help to let this projekt be alive!" — Reemt Peters, donated 5 EUR
  • "Wikipedia contributees to the broadening of human knowledge and furthering the connection between people worldwide." — Maegan Mercer-Bourne, donated 5 USD
  • "Whenever you need the basics of anything" — vlad vasilescu, donated 30 USD
  • "I use Wikipedia a lot and it has helped me hundreds of times." — Ravindra Potnuru, donated 70 USD
  • "Wikipedia hat mich schon so manche Nacht davon abgehalten einzuschlafen." — Ronny Thiem, donated 15 EUR
  • "Multumiri" — Marius Manolache, donated 30 USD
  • "Absolutely necessary. Free Catalonia" — Josep Mir Izard, donated 20 EUR
  • "Freies Wissen für alle!" — Manuel Bittel, donated 10 EUR
  • "Wikipedia is great site which is empowering the IT Organization as well to implement the practice of sharing the knowledge in the industry across different business units" — Satyanarayana K N V, donated 10 USD
  • "what's more important than knowledge?" — Anonymous, donated 10 USD
  • "Love the world - Love the human race - Support Wikipedia!!" — Müge Çevik, donated 20 USD
  • "När jag ser något i en tidning som jag vet någoting om så finns det nästan alltid sakfel. När jag ser något på Wikipedia som jag vet något om så finns det nästan aldrig sakfel." — Per Delsing, donated 30 EUR
  • "You should survive." — Anonymous, donated 25 USD
  • "Wie wertlos ist eine Information, wenn man sie nicht hat." — wilko buemann, donated 10 EUR
  • "Wikipedia has been an effective tool in self-diagnosis of a long term psychiatric disorder" — Anonymous, donated 20 EUR
  • "Man stelle sich vor, das Wissen der Welt wäre frei zugänglich..." — Anonymous, donated 10 EUR
  • "You have given so much" — Darren Galvin, donated 10 USD
  • "Support Wikipedia!!" — Anonymous, donated 10 USD
  • "If America's ecomomy didn't suck so bad, I'd give more. Sorry, poor Wikipedia! But I love you anyway. :)" — Tiffany Navarro, donated 5 USD
  • "Thanks Wiki, you are great. " — Zhipeng Liu, donated 30 USD
  • "Quel trésor !" — Danielle Voisine, donated 30 CAD
  • "Gracias" — Mateo Di Maggio, donated 5 USD
  • "ジミーさん。こんにちは。あなたの作ったシステムのお陰で、瞬時に深い知識が得られるようになりました。これからも頑張って存続させてください。陰ながら応援しています。" — 親宜 柴田, donated 3000 JPY
  • "Gracias por hacer la información asequible y de manera universal" — Luis Antonio Garcia Bravo Rodriguez, donated 30 EUR
  • "knowledge is the key" — Paolo Cocco, donated 75 USD
  • "This is a great resource and needs to live on foreever." — Anonymous, donated 10 USD
  • "Wikipedia is one of the most useful inventions ever!" — Richard Hector, donated 30 EUR
  • "Hope wikipedia keeps getting better and more accurate.- Manas Karekar, University of Wikipedia!" — Manas Karekar, donated 5 USD
  • "C'était mon rêve depuis des décennies, de centraliser tout le savoir humain, merci Wikipédia" — simon singer, donated 30 USD
  • "Спасибо за качественный сервис и удачи в работе!" — Petr Nazarov, donated 30 USD
  • "Tony McNicholas" — Tony McNicholas, donated 10 USD
  • "Wikipedia, c'est ce qui différencie l'Homme de l'animal." — Simon Petres, donated 75 USD
  • "いつも助けて頂いています。" — Anonymous, donated 10000 JPY
  • "Still useful. Important, also under a finance crisis." — Lars Mork, donated 200 NOK
  • "just help them to live more..." — Cesar Bettencourt, donated 5 USD
  • "I don't have much, but Wikipedia is truly a great resource. Keep up the good work!!" — Spencer Shepard, donated 5 USD
  • "Scusate la mia ignoranza, anche se io fatico a scusare quella degli altri." — Stefano Pennarola, donated 25 EUR