 For me, the idea of Wikipedia as a truly global project is really fundamental. And so I think it's really important that as more and more people come online that we are a welcoming place, not just for them to read the content that's been written, but for them to write and to participate in their own language about their own localities, their own history. It's about how can we make Wikipedia better, and how can we make Wikipedia better for everyone? We need to show the importance and role of Iraq and its history, social, scientific, so that we can show the world that Iraq is still a good place and that we are still searching and developing. People have to travel miles and miles to come to Africa just to learn about our culture. Why don't we just put this online so people can just sit in their homes and learn? If you don't have a document, you can use it to fill it up, or you can study it and write it down again. And then you collect all the information. Do I have to say that it's a huge piece of information? We're here for a Wikipedia editathon entitled Plants and People. I'm studying the history of botany in the Russian Empire in the 18th century. I've never edited a Wikipedia page before, so I thought I might come and learn how to do that. Hearing like, no, you have access to the internet, you know what a good source is, you have a voice to contribute and this is how to do it is really empowering. Wikipedia doesn't collect data from its users. So whatever pages you see, they don't try to collect as much information about you as possible. And yet Wikipedia doesn't run ads. So the price of Wikipedia's freedom and independence is donations. Information in itself is useless until it's been shared with the whole world. And the only way you can do that is through a medium like Wikipedia.