User:AnnaHendren/Wikipe-tan appeal
A message from Wikipedia mascot Wikipe-tan[edit]
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Wikipedia is the richest multilingual source of information.
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Wikipedia is built by people like you who volunteer their free time typing in stuff from old editions of Britannica that they have.
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At the end of each year, many readers like you donate a small amount of money.
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Then, Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation ask for money again, because they've spent all their money updating MediaWiki.
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Free trivial knowledge without ads is invaluable: could you live without Wikipedia?
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Help Wikimedia find and repair backdoors in MediaWiki; donate today.
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