I created the first wiki in 1995. The community of volunteers that assembled on my wiki, the work product they produced, and the software I wrote that supports them, have served as the inspiration for Wikipedia. I have watched Wikipedia grow from its inception. I have keynoted at the Wikimanina conference and serve on Wikimedia Foundation's advisory board. My own company, AboutUs.org, uses Mediawiki, the Foundation's open source wiki software. I have always been and continue to be impressed with the value that this organization produces. They understand every aspect and subtlety of my achievement and have gone on to amplify each one ten times over. The result is a singular contribution to humankind. I recognized early that my site's success depended on a complex trust relationship with my volunteer community. Wikipedia is similarly constrained. I recommend generous ongoing support through all philanthropic mechanisms so that Wikipedia can be preserved as a work and its volunteer community protected.