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<translate><!--T:5--> Masticationpedia is the site of [[the Charity]], a non-profit (and non-governmental) entity under British law, which assumes all the organizational and logistical functions.</translate> | <translate><!--T:5--> Masticationpedia is the site of [[the Charity]], a non-profit (and non-governmental) entity under British law, which assumes all the organizational and logistical functions.</translate> | ||
<translate><!--T:6--> The Charity lives and feeds on the voluntary support of participants and [ | <translate><!--T:6--> The Charity lives and feeds on the voluntary support of participants and [https://www.masticationpedia.org/donate/ donors]. Masticationpedia does not receive funds, grants, or any other kind of help from public and/or government agencies either as a site or as a charity. It only admits donations from companies (machinery manufacturers, for the most part) as [[MP:Sponsor|ethical sponsorships]] and these are duly mentioned, and also linked to the companies concerned if required, irrespective of donations from members No sponsor is allowed to influence the contents of Masticationpedia and no information appears differently depending on which company is mentioned in an article.</translate> | ||
<translate><!--T:7--> Actually, we would like individual spontaneous donations to prevail and indeed become our typical and perhaps exclusive form of financing in the best interests of free knowledge projects. You too can help us achieve this, [ | <translate><!--T:7--> Actually, we would like individual spontaneous donations to prevail and indeed become our typical and perhaps exclusive form of financing in the best interests of free knowledge projects. You too can help us achieve this, [https://www.masticationpedia.org/donate/ right now]. </translate> | ||
<translate><!--T:8--> With its name, ''Mastication''pedia indicates that its main topic deals with '''physiopathogenesis of the Masticatory System'''. This informal definition, clear to professionals but mysterious to common people, roughly means the causes of diseases and disorders that afflict people in the apparatuses and systems that allow them to eat when chewing, especially at the beginning of food processing. ''Chewing'' (''mastication''), then, and ''pedia'', a word that comes from the ancient Greek παιδεία (''paideia''), ''education''.</translate> | <translate><!--T:8--> With its name, ''Mastication''pedia indicates that its main topic deals with '''physiopathogenesis of the Masticatory System'''. This informal definition, clear to professionals but mysterious to common people, roughly means the causes of diseases and disorders that afflict people in the apparatuses and systems that allow them to eat when chewing, especially at the beginning of food processing. ''Chewing'' (''mastication''), then, and ''pedia'', a word that comes from the ancient Greek παιδεία (''paideia''), ''education''.</translate> | ||