User:David McIlwain

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Is a sometime contributer to Australian and East Asian-related material. Long live Wikipedia 萬歳!

The Marching Song of Knowledge

I tips me lid to Banjo Paterson, Ironbark Gibson and C. J. Dennis.

Thou art fairest of all media –

Our beloved young Wikipedia!

T'was all begun early twenty-o-one

In unpaid travails of young Jimmy Wales.

Here raise a cheer for this visonary seer

And 'is thousands of earnest supporters –

(For while he’s a sage of the globalised age)

He needed a few good reporters!

Wiki, Wiki–pe–di–a!

Thou art freest of all media –

Our quickly growin' Wikipedia!

So enter now the ‘Users’ (and scatterin’ uv abusers)

Wikipedia joined the free media

And words are inexpensive

So it’s mighty comprehensive.

You wouldn’t say it’s tricky to contribute to a wiki

And "thems errors" is lesser than d'gems!

Wiki, Wiki–pe–di–a!

Thou art truest of all media –

Our sweetly written Wikipedia!

So share the vision splendid of our knowledge far extended

While just to have y’ say, you needn’t even pay

(But servers aren't so cheap and for Wiki' 'ere to keep –

Well, donation might just save you from Damnation!)

Oh, that Polynesian word that was prior ne'er heard!

Be bold, oh, Wiki! Come mould our Wiki!

All told, oh, Wiki –

Thou art greatest of all media –

Our wise n' worldly Wikipedia!

– David Vyvyan McIlwain, 9 June 2006.