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{{cquote| By the time I graduated High School in 1987, I had learned almost nothing. For 18 years I had performed busy work and had been kept off the streets, but beyond the work of a few truly generous teachers I was a blank slate. Television, comic books, and science fiction was the sum total of what I knew, and because of how schools taught, I found it deathly boring, and yet terrifying, since failure would mean my future would presumably also fail. |
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Revision as of 02:38, 21 December 2010
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Wikipedia is Changing Lives
Here are just a few of the amazing stories that our users shared with us. We thank them for their willingness to tell their story about Wikipedia.
- From our 2010-2011 Fundraiser
- From our 2009-2010 fundraiser
A story from Romania:
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You can find the article that Adama started in the French Wikipedia: Agnam-Goly.
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