So Long, and Thanks for All the Edits

It dawned on me some morning in one of the last few years that Wikipedia is now and may forever be the closest thing we'll get to a real Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Today that was confirmed by one Oliver Lardner, who, in the comment sent along with his $50 donation to Wikipedia, said, simply, "don't panic." I happened upon it while glancing through the list of publicly viewable recent contributions, a list full of hope and humor written in myriad languages by people around the world.