Do you need💝WikiLove?

Below is an email which I received from Wikipedia.

Your generosity to Wikipedia is a gift to the world!

Dear Novlet,

Have you ever experienced that special feeling of being part of a community? Wikipedians have a word for that feeling of belonging and appreciation: WikiLove. As a donor to the Wikimedia Foundation, I'm sure you've felt WikiLove, even if you didn't know the word for it until now. That spirit of community is essential to our goal. No matter our role, we're all on the same mission together: to create, use, and share the world's knowledge with everyone.

As our fundraiser comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to share some WikiLove for you. It’s your generosity that helps keep Wikipedia alive and vibrant. Your gift supports the 265,000+ volunteers, organizations, and groups that collaborate across 14 Wikimedia projects to bring the world’s knowledge to everyone, no matter where they are in the world. Thank you, Novlet.

Did you know?

In addition to all of the work volunteers do to maintain Wikipedia as a trustworthy, global resource, many participate in contests to share and celebrate the world’s culture and history through photography and video: The “Wiki Loves” contests.

These events are the visual expression of the deeply human work the Wikimedia community does: sharing knowledge as an act of love. Love for our folklore, love for our natural and cultural heritage, and love for the world we all share.

For more inspiration, you can find more beautiful images like this at:

Whether you use Wikipedia to nurture personal growth, dive deeper into interests, or ignite that spark of curiosity, know your generosity and ongoing support make you an integral part of our shared mission.

You are part of the 2% of readers who make a gift in support of that great celebration of knowledge that is Wikipedia, and...

We kindly invite you to set up a monthly donation, if you can.

- - - We are in this together, and I’m grateful that you’re a part of our global community.

Thank you again

With heartfelt appreciation,

Wikipedia Globe

Sheetal Puri

Senior Director, Digital Fundraising,

Wikimedia Foundation, host of Wikipedia.

I am throwing this out there should anyone feel the need to make a small donation to this beloved non-profit free to the world organization. They send you WikiLove no matter the size of your donation.

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Wikipedia about Wikipedia

Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. It grew out of Nupedia, a more structured free encyclopedia, as a way to allow easier and faster drafting of articles and translations.

English Wikipedia is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of Wikipedia's cumulative traffic, with the remaining percentage split among the other languages. The English Wikipedia has the most articles of any edition, at 6,772,568 as of January 2024. It contains 10.9% of articles in all Wikipedias, although it lacks millions of articles found in other editions. The edition's one-billionth edit was made on January 13, 2021.

English Wikipedia, often as a stand-in for Wikipedia overall, has been praised for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, culture, and reduced degree of commercial bias. It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and ideological bias.

While its reliability was frequently criticized in the 2000s, it has improved over time, receiving greater praise in the late 2010s and early 2020s, having become an important fact-checking site. English Wikipedia has been characterized as having less cultural bias than other language editions due to its broader editor base.