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Title: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Cubic Earth on July 30, 2014, 04:42:15 PM I woke up and saw this email in my inbox:
Hi John Doe Thanks for your email. I wanted you to be among the first to know that as of this morning, the Wikimedia Foundation is accepting Bitcoin donations! Later today, you'll receive a generic email from the Foundation with the news, but I'm hoping that my note reaches you first. If your offer is still good, we're definitely interested, and we would be very grateful for your generosity and your patience! You can donate here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/en#bitcoin (https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/en#bitcoin). Best, Caitlin Caitlin Virtue Director of Development Wikimedia Foundation Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: herzmeister on July 30, 2014, 04:45:10 PM wow, this was a weekly topic back in the day... when the fook is wikipedia finally gonna accept bitcoin... and now it doesn't feel like anything special anymore
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: QuestionAuthority on July 30, 2014, 04:47:25 PM Did you tell Rassah at Bitcoin100 so they can get a donation?
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Brooker on July 30, 2014, 04:50:34 PM wow, this was a weekly topic back in the day... when the fook is wikipedia finally gonna accept bitcoin... and now it doesn't feel like anything special anymore Yea I really was expecting this to be fud. It's been a while since I've seen a thread from someone complaining why wikipedia don't accept bitcoin. I guess this is good for both wiki and bitcoin. I hope more charities start accepting it now. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Cubic Earth on July 30, 2014, 04:52:17 PM Did you tell Rassah at Bitcoin100 so they can get a donation? Not yet. I don't see any news stories or other posts on this yet... did I break the news? :) Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Brooker on July 30, 2014, 05:02:40 PM Did you tell Rassah at Bitcoin100 so they can get a donation? Not yet. I don't see any news stories or other posts on this yet... did I break the news? :) It seems time have just covered it http://time.com/3059325/wikimedia-wikipedia-bitcoin-donations/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timeblogs%2Fnerd_world+%28TIME%3A+Techland%29 Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: cozk on July 30, 2014, 05:13:25 PM Took them forever. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: lenny_ on July 30, 2014, 05:15:17 PM TO DA MOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Peter R on July 30, 2014, 05:18:35 PM You need to click on the "other ways to give" link near the bottom of the main donation page. Then you can click on "Bitcoin" and then you're taken to a Coinbase form to complete the donation. You are also required to fill out the email and physical address sections of the form before you can submit it, so this is an obstacle if you just want to quickly give $5 and don't care about the tax receipt.
https://i.imgur.com/FSx17yF.png Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Cubic Earth on July 30, 2014, 05:25:25 PM Here is the generic follow-up email:
Quote Dear Wikipedia Supporter, Recently, many donors have been in touch to say they were interested in supporting us with donations of Bitcoin. We are happy to announce that as of today, the Wikimedia Foundation will be accepting Bitcoin donations. You can read our announcement here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/29/wikimedia-foundation-now-accepts-bitcoin/ We strive to provide flexible e-payment options for our donors around the globe, and we’re happy to add this new way to give today. If you choose to give, your donation will support the technology, people, and projects working to provide the sum all of human knowledge to everyone, for free. Please click here to donate Bitcoin. We have no plans to accept other forms of cryptocurrency in the near future, but we will continue to monitor them with interest. For a full list of other donation options, please visit: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/en Thanks again for taking the time to email us, The Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Team They are using Coinbase. There is a little form you have to fill out, with email, name, address, etc, but there is no verification. That is fine if you want to get a tax write-off or something, but I hate to see them pass up the simple beauty of just posting a static donation address and QR code. I think they should also have a separate donation address where they pledge to keep the donations in Bitcoin and spend them as bitcoins. I'll write back to them with the suggestions. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Sutters Mill on July 30, 2014, 05:41:18 PM I think it's great that charities and organizations like Wikipedia start accepting it as it really legitimizes it's use and helps to clean up it's media smeared image. I hope this gets some good media coverage.
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: QuestionAuthority on July 30, 2014, 05:47:31 PM Did you tell Rassah at Bitcoin100 so they can get a donation? Not yet. I don't see any news stories or other posts on this yet... did I break the news? :) Not sure but send a PM to Rassah anyway. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Nerazzura on July 30, 2014, 05:57:47 PM I woke up and saw this email in my inbox: although I did not receive an email like you, but when I read this post I come to feel happy. This is good news for us all Hi John Doe Thanks for your email. I wanted you to be among the first to know that as of this morning, the Wikimedia Foundation is accepting Bitcoin donations! Later today, you'll receive a generic email from the Foundation with the news, but I'm hoping that my note reaches you first. If your offer is still good, we're definitely interested, and we would be very grateful for your generosity and your patience! You can donate here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/en#bitcoin (https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/en#bitcoin). Best, Caitlin Caitlin Virtue Director of Development Wikimedia Foundation Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: sangaman on July 30, 2014, 06:33:51 PM I got the email and will probably donate today, however the link in the email seems to be dead. Was this working earlier?
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/29/wikimedia-foundation-now-accepts-bitcoin/ Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: inBitweTrust on July 30, 2014, 06:46:34 PM I have been wanting to donate to wikimedia for some time ... now they gave me a reason I couldn't refuse....
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Nathonas on July 30, 2014, 06:49:12 PM Great news. Wikipedia is a very big name on the internet, and I've personally donated to them 3 times over the years. I've written countless high school and university papers with help from their sources and probably read thousands of wiki pages on interesting, useful and fun stuff. Great to see them move forward with emerging technology.
I really hope they release how much BTC was donated after a week or something. Would be very interesting to see. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: sangaman on July 30, 2014, 07:03:53 PM Just got another email, the correct link to the story is:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/30/wikimedia-foundation-now-accepts-bitcoin/ I'm a big fan of both bitcoin and wiki and I've been putting off donating until bitcoin was accepted. I certainly have learned a lot from wikipedia and they're more than deserving of support. I'll be donating today and I hope others do the same. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: hellscabane on July 30, 2014, 07:06:02 PM It'd be awesome if they could display the fact that you can donate in bitcoin more prominently. Other than that, it's definitely welcome news.
It's funny that it took this long though. There was such a push for this before. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: jbrnt on July 30, 2014, 07:13:57 PM I want to make a donation, but I have to give my email and physical address? This is ridiculous! Why can't I make an anonymous donation?
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: inBitweTrust on July 30, 2014, 07:16:16 PM I want to make a donation, but I have to give my email and physical address? This is ridiculous! Why can't I make an anonymous donation? just make up an address... its probably for tax writeoff reasons....You place fake info , you don't get the tax right off but get anonymity. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Daniel91 on July 30, 2014, 07:22:53 PM I woke up and saw this email in my inbox: Hi John Doe Thanks for your email. I wanted you to be among the first to know that as of this morning, the Wikimedia Foundation is accepting Bitcoin donations! Later today, you'll receive a generic email from the Foundation with the news, but I'm hoping that my note reaches you first. If your offer is still good, we're definitely interested, and we would be very grateful for your generosity and your patience! You can donate here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/en#bitcoin (https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/en#bitcoin). Best, Caitlin Caitlin Virtue Director of Development Wikimedia Foundation Another great news for Bitcoin community and another step in becoming mainstream. We need many more such small success in order to became famous and popular in global Internet community. In fact Bitcoin is perfect tool for donations online! Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Akka on July 30, 2014, 07:36:03 PM Curious how many people now actually donate. There where whole threads filled with people mailing Wikimedia about accepting Bitcoin, let's hope enough of them now actually donate and this doesn't turn out awkward, like: Wikimedia received over 15.000 Mails to accept Bitcoin, upon actually doing so they received a total of 12 Bitcoin donation worth > $100.
tl.dr.: If you bugged them about accepting Bitcoin you should really donate now and don't be cheap like donating 50 cents. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: beetcoin on July 30, 2014, 08:56:47 PM jeez, took them long enough. i donated to them via USD a few years ago, but i don't think i'd do it again.. they have the opportunity to accept btc for a long time now, risk-free.. yet they didn't (even though they were hurting for donations).
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: minimalB on July 30, 2014, 09:22:25 PM Finally! Only Atlas knows what took them so long. ;D
Anyway, it's nice to see them on board. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: knight22 on July 30, 2014, 10:15:23 PM Curious how many people now actually donate. There where whole threads filled with people mailing Wikimedia about accepting Bitcoin, let's hope enough of them now actually donate and this doesn't turn out awkward, like: Wikimedia received over 15.000 Mails to accept Bitcoin, upon actually doing so they received a total of 12 Bitcoin donation worth > $100. tl.dr.: If you bugged them about accepting Bitcoin you should really donate now and don't be cheap like donating 50 cents. Yup. I bugged them pretty hard ;D Just donated for the first time to Wikipedia. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: kingama on July 30, 2014, 11:53:43 PM This is good for Wikipedia. I'm happy for them because now more people around the world can support them.
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 31, 2014, 01:57:32 AM Did you tell Rassah at Bitcoin100 so they can get a donation? I believe I'm on record in stating that such would be the case, albeit I was in reference to Wikipedia proper, but would have no qualms with having my promise fulfill if such is warranted. Please let me/us know if this is outta line. Please voice any opinions as to why they SHOULD NOT receive a $1,000 USD via BTC endowment from Bitcoin100. ~Bruno Kucinskas Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: fran2k on July 31, 2014, 05:39:50 AM Great news! Accepting also in all my wikis now too!
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 31, 2014, 08:31:07 AM I would love to see Bitcoin 100 endow them, so please weigh in. Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: e4xit on July 31, 2014, 12:40:11 PM Did you tell Rassah at Bitcoin100 so they can get a donation? I believe I'm on record in stating that such would be the case, albeit I was in reference to Wikipedia proper, but would have no qualms with having my promise fulfill if such is warranted. Please let me/us know if this is outta line. Please voice any opinions as to why they SHOULD NOT receive a $1,000 USD via BTC endowment from Bitcoin100. ~Bruno Kucinskas Are you Bruno Kucinskas? Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: LiteCoinGuy on July 31, 2014, 03:41:09 PM is it only possible to donate bitcoin when i have a coinbase account ? ???
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: lihuajkl on July 31, 2014, 04:03:18 PM BTC is fast payment method without fee. It could be used for anonymous donation. It is fine to just give out your donation address. We send BTC to it without filling the form simply. We can track the address and know where the BTC is going.
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: DjPxH on July 31, 2014, 04:13:00 PM Ha, wow awesome news! Didn't someone give their boss, this Jimmy guy some BTC? I wonder if that changed his mind. Usually they would reply in a way that discredited Bitcoin when you asked them whether they plan on accepting it.
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: herzmeister on July 31, 2014, 04:36:09 PM is it only possible to donate bitcoin when i have a coinbase account ? ??? nop, though it's recommendable if you don't want to type in your physical address every time :-X Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: QuestionAuthority on July 31, 2014, 04:43:49 PM I would love to see Bitcoin 100 endow them, so please weigh in. Thanks in advance. Just tell Rassah that you want it done now or you're going to repost his coffee table pictures all over the web with his address and phone number. Seriously, I don't think anyone would complain if they received an endowment. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 03, 2014, 02:32:18 PM I would love to see Bitcoin 100 endow them, so please weigh in. Thanks in advance. Just tell Rassah that you want it done now or you're going to repost his coffee table pictures all over the web with his address and phone number. Seriously, I don't think anyone would complain if they received an endowment. The way I'm reading it is that the Wikimedia Foundation IS the charitable arm of Wikipedia, ergo Wikipedia proper is indeed accepting bitcoin donations. Also, somebody dig up that thread depicting where a BT user amassed donations for Wikipedia, holding them in escrow till when this day came about, for it has. Also2, somebody put a bug in Roger Ver's ear, suggesting he run a 24 hour (?) matching contribution campaign. We'll even let him attach any of his various concerns to the stunt, for that's what marketing's all about. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 04, 2014, 09:06:51 AM I declare it's official: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/wikipedia-begins-taking-donations-in-bitcoin/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Due to a promise I made a year or so ago, Bitcoin 100 should endow Wikipedia $1,000 USD via BTC. Also, again, would somebody be so kind as to hunt down that thread depicting a BT user amassing BTC donations held in escrow till this day that has now arose? I honestly don't recall the user's name. Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 04, 2014, 05:52:22 PM Bump, for still seeking the dude outlined in the post above.
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: railzand on August 04, 2014, 06:01:03 PM Bump, for still seeking the dude outlined in the post above. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=270255.0 this?https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=270255.msg8121102#msg8121102 Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: DeboraMeeks on August 04, 2014, 06:11:51 PM Im unhappy because the donation form is too intrusive :( I have to supply personal info instead of being able to donate fast and anonymously....
Title: Re: Wikimedia Foundation is now accepting Bitcoin donations Post by: philiveyjr on October 08, 2014, 12:00:01 AM y cant i do it anonymously..n fast? such pain! :/
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