Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales has recently issued a personal appeal to everyone to donate to the Wikimedia foundation.

Personal Appeal – Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia is based on a very radical idea, the realization of the dreams most of us have always had for what the Internet can and should become. Thousands of people, all over the world, from all cultures, working together in harmony to freely share clear, factual, unbiased information… a simple and pure desire to make the world a better place.
This is a radical strike at the heart of an increasingly shallow, proprietary and anti-intellectual culture. It is a radical strike at the assumption that the Internet has to be a place of hostile debate and flame wars. It is an appeal to the best within all of us.

What Wikipedia has achieved so far is amazing. It is one of those truly wonderful things that nothing but the net could have enabled. It speaks volumes about the good that we as a species are capable of and the hopeful, collabrative potential of global human knowledge set free for everyone to enjoy.

It is worth mentioning that Wikipedia has a growing Arabic version. For more info on that aspect check with Isam Bayazidi who’s involved with the project.

Make a donation if you can.