As a simple resource, it's imperative it remains free of corporates with their own agendas, and to a lesser extent, advertising. The best way to fail is not ha

As a simple resource, it's imperative it remains free of corporates with their own agendas, and to a lesser extent, advertising. The best way to fail is not have sufficient funds for emergencies. Wikipedia is certainly more worthwhile for someone who is likely to use it regularly, than say an online newspaper that actually refuses to share the article content with an infrequent visitor that might be directed to that particular site a handful of times during the year. Often wikipedia asks for much less. I'd probably donate, if not for the hundred plus hours I worked expanding their knowledge base in the early 00s ... it was all deleted as far as I can tell - most of that data wasn't ever going to be covered in a "must be in an existing ISBN book / ISSN publication" policy that was brought in sometime later on.