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I'm Jimmy Wales,
founder of Wikipedia,

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and today we're celebrating
the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia.

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It's hard to imagine
that it's been ten years

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since I first edited Wikipedia.

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I remember that first day.

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I clicked on "Edit"
and I wrote "Hello World"

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and that was the beginning of Wikipedia
and all the things that have come since then.

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Today we've got millions of articles

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in hundreds of languages.

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These days about 400 million people a month
visit the website

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and that's just an astounding thing
to have happened.

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If you really think about 
the impact on our culture

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it's staggering.

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And it's all thanks to you.

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I want to thank
everybody who's helped.

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I want to thank all the people
who've edited Wikipedia,

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who've contributed
to this great knowledge base.

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I want to thank everybody
who's reading Wikipedia

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who's really engaging
with ideas and knowledge.

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That's what we made it for.
We made it for you to read.

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And I've a little bit of a call to action,
a little request for everybody.

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Even though that we've got
millions of articles.

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Even though we're in hundreds of languages.

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There is still lot of work to do.

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So I want everybody out there
if you've never edited Wikipedia, try it.

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Give a try. Click on "Edit".

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You see some problems?
Fix it for us.

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We really appreciate it.

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And... Well.
Happy birthday Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia : 10 years of sharing the sum of all knowledge