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I somehow missed the news that Wikipedia now accepts bitcoin donations.

It's hidden in there in "other ways to donate" and apparently they got 140k (in dollars) worth of BTC just on the first week they started accepting it.

Yeah it was an extremely big headline on /r/bitcoin

Lets hope that people will keep donating, so that wikipedia don't kill that option, because the demand is so low.

Yeah they have been accepting it for a while now and it was pretty big news on reddit and this forum there was a lot of discussion about it on this forum which lasted a few weeks surprised that you missed it.

The problem is wiki is going to sell those bitcoin and push down the market...

That's good news. Hope the donations won't decrease with time, after the hype fades away

How much they get from the other means of contribution, just for comparasion.

That sucks! Then people will buy cheaper bitcoins to spend, thus allowing other entities to amass bitcoins via their sales, selling those off, further decreasing the price, where soon everybody will be using them and bitcoins won't be worth a damn thing. Somebody needs to stop this madness of spending bitcoins otherwise...  ::)

Good for you. They really need donations, although wikipedia is generally not a reliable source.

Can someone post a link to this information? Is there a Wikipedia announcement about it somewhere?

You can find 100s of news and announcements about it

e.g. http://time.com/3059325/wikimedia-wikipedia-bitcoin-donations/

Awesome! Yeah I think I'll just go and donate myself, as well! Wikipedia is doing a great thing on all those Ragga singers, listing their music and I sometimes click through their site for hours looking for new music and getting to know the stories behind the artists... Great site!

It's great that they're accepting it and great for adoption, but I think i'll keep my coins as I don't think wiki needs them.

What, but why? So I guess you're using Wikipedia often, right? And you say you love the site! Why do you think that they won't need you money? Isn't it a great thing to contribute to something you like?

i just read news about Wikipedia received lot of donations in BTC...

Happy to see this.

Yes, those news made mainstream newssites. So very good for bitcoin, and it sends the right signs!

The volume would be insufficient to do this, unless by "push down" you mean "weakly nudge."

they raised something like $150k in bitcoins in.. about 1 day right? there were probably so many people who wanted to donate in btc, and finally when wikipedia does accept it, it floods in.

About 7 days. Yeah, volume already went down, still impressive numbers. For that specific week, it was ~20% of all donations!

so, what services does wikimedia use? we should get those guys to accept bitcoin, so then they don't have to cash the coins out.

wikipedia = world's 2nd most popular website

good news 8)

This is really very good news for Bitcoin community.
Wikipedia finally recognize Bitcoin as great way to raise more money for their work.
I hope others will follow soon.

it's good they accept bitcoin and all

but it's bad they're probably selling it

so we have 140 000$ of bitcoins dumped on an exchange in 7 days from Wikipedia

Can you provide a link to that stat about how much they received.  140K in USD is not insignificant.

first link on a search right here http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wikimedia+bitcoin+donation

it's also posted in the general forum i believe.

Hey asshole, lmgtfy was cool 2009.  If you don't have a link to the info you can stfu.  Thx.

don't know about that, but I found this

https://i.imgur.com/hBkoxvk.png

https://i.imgur.com/BEgHgEj.png

Cool, thanks.  11K isn't quite 140K but it's still not insignificant.

This is great news obviously and step in good direction. But one thing is bothering me. Option for BTC donation should be visible and  not hidden in some 'others method to donate' menu or something. Make it big, let people see BTC symbol.

those are donations to his address before actually implementing donations on wikipedia ;)

i posted a link that showed the amount of bitcoin that was donated. it was just a simple google. you could have done it.

No, you posted a link to a google search with a smart-ass animation from 2009 which was perhaps cute the first time anyone saw it 5 years ago.  It's not my job to google everything that someone posts on the bitcoin forum without evidence.  If I say to the OP, "hey where do you see that? can you post a link?" then some smart ass "derp, why don't you google" is an unhelpful reply and that's why i'm calling you out for it.  Obviously I can google anything I please but that doesn't meant that I'm going to turn up the same sources that the OP found.  In fact, Wales' twitter sems to suggest the OP was off by an order of magnitude.  Because I don't click on your asshole lmgtfy link, I have no idea what you found.  If you want to try again more helpfully, that's be cool.  Otherwise you might find this helpful:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=asshole

Is it so hard for them to put a single bitcoin address to the bottom of their homapage  ???

It would be a big win-win for both wikipedia and bitcoin.

This is an accounting issue. They can't speculate themselves, because of the structure of the wikimedia foundation. So they need to sell for USD immediately. Same with stocks.

you asked for a source, and i gave you one... then you didn't click on it and get angry. all of this could have been avoided if you had searched google. that's all i have to say about that.

I didn't say that i have a problem with them selling bitcoins for USD. I would just like the bitcoin option to be more visible.

Sure, that would be awesome, but it is not possible,

Another issue someone from wikipedia gave was that each donation is taxdeductible and they need to be able to point each donation to a certain person. Also not more than X % can be donated anonymously before becoming an issue.

Yes, I asked about a source, and you didn't give me one, you gave me a smart-ass suggestion to search google.  And no, it wouldn't have been avoided if I had searched google, as my question was:

"OP, what was your original source?"

(Which is still unknown, BTW) Not:

"OP, what is on google about this topic?"

And guess what, you just made my ignore list.  Cheers!

I honestly don't know why they don't make it more public. They've been on edge with accepting bitcoin for a while now, too. Seems weird for such an open organization. Glad they finally have it on board though, I hope they make it one of the main options.

You made a perfect decision, wikipedia is in side of freedom

I would donate too but they ask too much info :/
Why not just tell us their addy and we sen the btc in it?

i wish i wasnt broke, so i could donate  ::)

Wow 140k in a week that's amazing, donating for a good cause never goes to waste.

lol, congratulations. Maybe I'll do that in future, we'll see    :o

It's incredible. Half a year ago Jimmy Wales would've never even considered accepting Bitcoin. If you asked Wikipedia about accepting it, they'd reply with a default message shunning it, and now they're embracing it and praising it. Aweseome times, my friends, awesome times!

We haven't seen any evidence that it was actually that much.  The OP suggested it but then Wales' twitter said 11K.  Still not bad, but off by around an order of magnitude.

Donated BTC0.001

Can't afford more.  >:(

That moment when money speak louder than your prejudices and your fear of news things