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Translations of Video with Jimmy subtitles: ± 
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Hello! I'm Jimmy Wales, the Founder
of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Wikipedia depends on the generous
donations of people from all over the world

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People like you.

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The Wikipedia project started back in
2001, and has very quickly become

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one of the top-10 destinations on the Internet.

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English is the largest
language of Wikipedia, but

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what about the languages
of the developing world?

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We need to help foster the growth of
Wikipedias in such languages as

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Hindi, Arabic, and Swahili,

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languages where the speakers will really
benefit from access to free knowledge.

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The following is some footage from the independent
documentary film "Truth in Numbers"

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When a child gets a laptop, there
is a snap-shot of the Wikipedia

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both in their native language, and also
some of the English Wikipedia as well.

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That they can engage in

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a critical discourse with other people
about things that are out in the world,

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that they don't have to take things at face
value - that's a powerful idea.

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Part of the idea behind the the laptop is
to expose kids to powerful ideas, and the

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Wikipedia is one of those powerful ideas.

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Well, of course, my contribution is
just a bit, but every little bit helps.

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So this is how I write in Wikipedia.
Yes, it's a lot of work, but it works! 

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One day, we can put it on a disc and give it
around the schools, so people can look it up.

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All of a sudden, Wikipedia came and then this,
the sum total of human knowledge - it struck me.

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You know the website Wikipedia?
Yeah, yeah.

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So, I'm the Founder of Wikipedia.
Okay, hi! Nice to meet you! It's a great site ...

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Do you ever look at the ... ?
... and I also use pick-up lines from that.

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Pick-up lines! From Wikipedia?
Oh, yeah - did it work?

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One of the things that I've done is I've
taken a copy of this whole website, 

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which is Wikipedia, and I've put it in a computer
classroom where they don't have Internet access.

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If more of this was available in
Afrikaans, it would be very useful.

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Actually, it's more important for developing
countries than it is for developed countries, 

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because there is a gap,
and this gap is purely knowledge

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it's not money, it's not politics or
power or whatever, it's knowledge.

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If we have the knowledge, and we know
how to use it, then the gap will be filled

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and we can look to a brighter future.

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Wikipedia has already changed the world,
and with your continued support

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there's no telling how much we can do
for people internationally.

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Imagine a world
in which every single person on the planet 

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is given free access to
the sum of all human knowledge.

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To donate, please visit
donate.wikimedia.org
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