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what current situation in this question?

I e-mailed them just a few days ago when I saw they were looking for donations. They said they don't take it but are watching bitcoin with interest.

It's not important if they really accept it. Many journalists are writing articles about how wikipedia and EFF is accepting BTC already without verifying if it's true. Now it's just the matter of time.

Wikipedia already missed an opportunity to fund themselves for the next few years, which is a shame considering how often they beg for money.  People were emailing them in droves asking to donate bitcoins a few months ago but they weren't interested.  I'm guessing they will get on board soon.

So true.

In a few months they will no longer be able to ignore it.

Sorry guys, but Wikipedia are plain idiots, and I would say that to their face any day of the week in person. Here we are, a bunch of freedom living dudes, trading with a cryptocurrency that is designed to be desentralized, just aligned with all the same ideas as wikipedia was originally meant to be.

Now, every time I read Wikipedia, I get a sign saying that if everybody that reads this gave us 9 dollars, then our fundraising would be over. So I mailed them, and told them I would give them bitcoins. They rejected.

The end result is that I think Wikipedia is a bunch of ungrateful fools, which doesn't accept my donation. Yes, holy cow - all the legal troubbles they would find themselves in if they accepted bitcoin. They would probably have to close shop, and the bosses would be labeled domestic terroists and be sent to Guantanamo bay, and not to mention that their dogs would catch rabies, and their wifes deny entrance for the foreceable future.

Oh the horrors that lies in accepting bitcoin.

Too big, doesn't care...

The right thing would be:

"Thank you, yes we happily accept anything that anyone wants to give to us! Thanks for your thought and your concern!"

Well, they will be ridiculed for this for long time to come. Whatever. They deserve it.

Don't give money to wikipedia, they clearly don't need it. Otherwise they would accept bitcoin

I was going to donate about 20 or so BTC to them last year when we were around $5/BTC, but they didn't accept Bitcoin.  Now that we're coming up on $100 per coin, fuck them; they had their chance, but they chose to turn up their nose.

No doubt.  I just don't understand why they didn't accept it.  Now, hopefully they will never get any.

And then they posted this at
https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:FundraiserLandingPage&country=US&uselang=en&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_source=donate&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikipedia.org

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