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I donated to wikipedia foundation today. The message I put on their message board for the question: what does wikipedia means to you was the following:


Dear wikipedia (Jimmy Wales),

I have tremendous curiosity for things happening around the world. I know that I can get information about all these things on wikipedia for sure. Hence, I visit your site everyday without fail.

My father laid down the tradition of buying books that help build personality of children. He bought "World Book Encyclopedia" for me and my sister back in 1986 when we were 6 and 3 years respectively for about INR. 10,000 when we purchased our house costing about INR. 1,25,000 i.e. about 8% of cost of residence. This set an excellent example of importance of knowledge in human life.

I have a three year old son. I plan to expose him to wikipedia as soon as he learns to read. I am confident that he will be a learned and sophisticated person if he starts gaining knowledge available in wikipedia from his early childhood. wikipedia is far more than any printed encyclopedia available in market. The strength of wikipedia is its liveliness. It is just hours before information of any event is available. And the cream on the cake is that it is FREE! I had never imagined in my life that such a plethora of knowledge could be available for the whole mankind for free.

Jimmy, you have the blessings of the mankind. God bless you!

Thanks a ton.

Yours,
Shashibhushan Gokhale

PS: I request you to please forward this mail to Mr. Jimmy Wales. I very heartily want to convey my thanks to him.

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