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Imagine a world in which every single person
on the planet is given free access to the

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sum of all human knowledge. 10 years ago that
simple idea was the launching of Wikipedia

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and here we are, 10 years later, this seemingly
utopian idea has resulted in nothing less

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than the most impressive, largest collection
of human knowledge ever created.

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This community of people have come together
from all around the world to do something

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entirely new, it’s a new phenomenon in our
culture. Many people think of Wikipedia as

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just a website or a technological accomplishment.
But in fact, it isn’t. What Wikipedia is

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is a cultural change, a cultural achievement.

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Along with the development of the internet,
which has changed all of our lives in so many

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ways, Wikipedia has changed our lives in many
many ways. The way that we interact with each

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other, the way that we communicate information,
the way that we learn about the world. All

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of these things are vastly different than
they were 10 years ago.

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Since we’re non-commercial and completely
independent the only thing that makes Wikipedia

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work is all of the volunteers, all the people
who donate money. People like you, who help

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us to achieve this amazing vision that we
have together.

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Others are judged by their market value. We
don’t want this, we don’t need this: we

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are a volunteer, non-profit community. This
is why as a cross-border cultural achievement,

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Wikipedia deserves recognition and protection
as UNESCO’s first digital World Cultural

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Heritage Site.

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This is a digital era and the great cultural
achievements of the next century are likely

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to be digital. Please help us to convince
UNESCO that they should apply the criteria

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for World Cultural Heritage Sites in the digital
context.

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Please support us and sign the petition if
you too value Wikipedia as a universal human

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value and a masterpiece of human creative
genius.

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But I want you to do more than just sign the
petition. If you can share this with your

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friends, send an email to people with this
link. If you are on Twitter, put it on Twitter.

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If you are on Facebook, put it on Facebook.
If you have a blog, blog about it. All the

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places where you are online: if you can help
us just to spread the message and get as many

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people as possible, I think it’s gonna happen.

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Just like Wikipedia itself: the more people
will get involved, the greater chance that

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we’ll achieve our goal. Please sign the
petition.