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Wikipedia was acknowledged in 2006 by Time Magazine for online collaboration and interaction by millions of users around the world, naming You as Person of the Year, noting on the front cover, “You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world”.
Wikipedia is now the 5th most visited site in the world with 400 million visitors a month according to Canadian Business magazine. Their fundraising goal of $16 million is expected to raise twice as much as the previous year’s campaign which consisted mostly of banner ads, “A small price to pay for the value received”. The influence of personal branding was evident when donations increased by 400% with a change in the banner ads to a personal request from Jimmy Wales, who started the organization in 2001.
Globe and Mail recently reported the average Canadian web surfer reads 16 Wikipedia pages a month, which is the most in the world — one more than German users, two more than Polish users and four more than Americans. Canadian users generate about 217,000 edits a month, which ranks 8th among the most productive countries.
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