Thank you for highlighting the importance of this resource. Wikipedia remains a commons for information, and we need to protect it. A few decades ago, we depended on the network news to provide shared facts for the people to learn and debate. As you’ll recall, the news bureaus of the three major networks were NOT expected to be profit centers; they were public services with definable journalistic standards. Walter Cronkite was liked and trusted not because he was an entertainer but because he helped viewers to see and understand the world as truthfully as he could.

Once news was demoted to entertainment, to be packaged and sold to various partisan audiences, we soon saw the change in its standards, formats, and reliability. Now it’s become very hard to find a news source that feels trustworthy.

Your message has prompted me to go contribute to Wikipedia — I hope everyone who uses it will help the founders protect it.