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11 December: An important update for readers in the UK.
You deserve an explanation, so please don't skip this 1-minute read. It's Wednesday, 11 December. Our fundraiser will soon be over, but we're short of our goal. If you've lost count of how many times you've visited Wikipedia this year, we hope that means it's given you at least £2.75 of knowledge. If everyone who finds Wikipedia useful gave £2.75, we'd hit our goal in a few hours.
The internet we were promised—a place of free, collaborative, and accessible knowledge—is under constant threat. Wikipedia's volunteers create and verify the pages you rely on, supported by tools that undo vandalism within minutes, ensuring the information you seek is trustworthy.
Just 2% of our readers donate, so if you have given in the past and Wikipedia still provides you with £2.75 worth of knowledge, donate today. If you are undecided, remember any contribution helps. Thank you.
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Welcome to Wikipedia! Wikipedias are places where many people are working together to make encyclopedias in many languages. We only use simple English words and simple ways of writing here, so our articles are much easier to understand.
Anybody can make changes or make new articles for Wikipedia. Try it out now! Just click the 'change this page' link at the top of the page and add something below the line. You can then click 'Save page' to save your changes or 'Show preview' to show what they would look like. When you are changing other pages, it's good if you put a brief explanation of what you've done in the 'Change summary' box.
