Wikimedia is irrational in not accepting Bitcoin payment

[Stemby]

Which translates exactly how to them backing or issuing the currency?
The full faith a credit bit you quoted and bolded, how does that fit in?
I'm pretty sure Germany recognise the dollar, pound, RMB and Yen as currencies too, but they don't back or issue them.

Probably you're right. English isn't my mother tongue, and I interpreted differently.

[Carlton Banks]

TL;DR: Start your own wiki, and accept every clone coin -- no one will step on UR Freedomz.   

Pains me to say it, but this ^^^. I'm not sure that wikipedia is exactly the font of unbiased knowledge that everyone celebrates it for. It's hugely valuable in so many articles, but the history and the politics are often pretty politicised.

[Mike Christ]

TL;DR: Start your own wiki, and accept every clone coin -- no one will step on UR Freedomz.   

Pains me to say it, but this ^^^. I'm not sure that wikipedia is exactly the font of unbiased knowledge that everyone celebrates it for. It's hugely valuable in so many articles, but the history and the politics are often pretty politicised.

I've noticed this a few times myself on certain articles, but as the saying goes, history is written by the victors.

[super3]

Right now people write wikipedia articles out of the goodness of their heart. While not accepting Bitcoin is a little silly and based on misconceptions, I can at least see their point of view. English wikipedia has ~4 million articles, while Spanish wikipedia has ~1 million articles. Based on word count, content, and accuracy you could reward people to translate most of those ~3 million articles.

An interesting experiment would be create a Wikipedia clone that rewards people that actually edit/create the articles. Want an good article on an obscure or technical subject? Just place a few Bitcoin bounty on it and someone would write it for you.

[Stemby]

An interesting experiment would be create a Wikipedia clone that rewards people that actually edit/create the articles. Want an good article on an obscure or technical subject? Just place a few Bitcoin bounty on it and someone would write it for you.

Why a clone? You can do this on the real Wikipedia right now.

[namecoin]

An interesting experiment would be create a Wikipedia clone that rewards people that actually edit/create the articles. Want an good article on an obscure or technical subject? Just place a few Bitcoin bounty on it and someone would write it for you.

Why a clone? You can do this on the real Wikipedia right now.

Hmm... Please let people know how to do that on the real Wikipedia?  Since most of the authors do not leave their donation Bitcoin address there?  Thank you.

[Stemby]

Hmm... Please let people know how to do that on the real Wikipedia?

You could write a message on this forum, or use the discussion pages on Wikipedia.

«*** bitcoins bounty for...»

[razibuzouzou]

Hmm... Please let people know how to do that on the real Wikipedia?

You could write a message on this forum, or use the discussion pages on Wikipedia.

«*** bitcoins bounty for...»

Maybe a plugin for Mediawiki would allow to setup such bounty feature ?

Alice wants to learn about Something. She puts a bounty on the Something article.
Bob knows everything about Something and is happy to contribute. He writes or adds content to the Something article.
Alice is notified that the article was enriched, she unlocks the bounty if she's pleased with the result.

[og kush420]

someone edit this page better than i did under finances. i dont know how to post sources or links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation

[crumbs]

someone edit this page better than i did under finances. i dont know how to post sources or links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation

This is why we can't have nice things.

[murraypaul]

Indeed, I'm sure that has really helped to change Wikipedia's opinion of Bitcoin for the better.
From someone who can't even tell the difference between a payment processor and a currency. (Paypal is not a currency)

[Kris]

I think it is time we try and see if BIPS can make a difference in this case.

So OK listen guys, I will take it upon myself getting Wikimedia to accept Bitcoin for donations being based in Europe and all, if that will have anything to say. I will report back in this thread with my progress.

I have already create a preliminary integration for them, so they will get the opportunity of accepting Bitcoin payment served on a silver plate.

The permalink is as follows:

https://bips.me/checkout/invoice/39d/Yb  - $10 donation amount
https://bips.me/checkout/invoice/39d/Zb  - $100 donation amount

Any Bitcoin paid to these invoices will be sent directly to Wikimedia Foundation, if for any reason anyone would pay to them before Wikimedia Foundation agrees to run a test.

A very elaborate email was just sent to the Wikimedia Foundation, explaining "How would it work", "Automatically conversion", "Daily bank wires in their own defined currency", and of cause the BIPS account details with everything defined, only missing their bank account information.

Kind regards
Kris

[readonlyaccess]

I think it is time we try and see if BIPS can make a difference in this case.

So OK listen guys, I will take it upon myself getting Wikimedia to accept Bitcoin for donations being based in Europe and all, if that will have anything to say. I will report back in this thread with my progress.

I have already create a preliminary integration for them, so they will get the opportunity of accepting Bitcoin payment served on a silver plate.

The permalink is as follows:

https://bips.me/checkout/invoice/39d/Yb  - $10 donation amount
https://bips.me/checkout/invoice/39d/Zb  - $100 donation amount

Any Bitcoin paid to these invoices will be sent directly to Wikimedia Foundation, if for any reason anyone would pay to them before Wikimedia Foundation agrees to run a test.

A very elaborate email was just sent to the Wikimedia Foundation, explaining "How would it work", "Automatically conversion", "Daily bank wires in their own defined currency", and of cause the BIPS account details with everything defined, only missing their bank account information.

Kind regards
Kris

I would recommend no one support Wikimedia until they officially accept BTC.

[super3]

Hmm... Please let people know how to do that on the real Wikipedia?

You could write a message on this forum, or use the discussion pages on Wikipedia.

«*** bitcoins bounty for...»

Maybe a plugin for Mediawiki would allow to setup such bounty feature ?

Alice wants to learn about Something. She puts a bounty on the Something article.
Bob knows everything about Something and is happy to contribute. He writes or adds content to the Something article.
Alice is notified that the article was enriched, she unlocks the bounty if she's pleased with the result.

Great point. You could simply make a subwebsite or plugin to handle just that on the regular Wikipedia. I'm curious if there would be enough interest to get this done.

[blockgenesis]

I think it is time we try and see if BIPS can make a difference in this case.

So OK listen guys, I will take it upon myself getting Wikimedia to accept Bitcoin for donations being based in Europe and all, if that will have anything to say. I will report back in this thread with my progress.

I have already create a preliminary integration for them, so they will get the opportunity of accepting Bitcoin payment served on a silver plate.

The permalink is as follows:

https://bips.me/checkout/invoice/39d/Yb  - $10 donation amount
https://bips.me/checkout/invoice/39d/Zb  - $100 donation amount

Any Bitcoin paid to these invoices will be sent directly to Wikimedia Foundation, if for any reason anyone would pay to them before Wikimedia Foundation agrees to run a test.

A very elaborate email was just sent to the Wikimedia Foundation, explaining "How would it work", "Automatically conversion", "Daily bank wires in their own defined currency", and of cause the BIPS account details with everything defined, only missing their bank account information.

Kind regards
Kris

I think that is a nice idea. Do things well, let them know exactly how it works (and be compatible with their current esthablished system), show them concretely see the benefits.

Wikimedia aren't closed mind, they are just overly cautious and they don't want to be pioneer (and I agree that it's frustrating from an organization that has been respected for their support for open-source and freedow of speech.. but hey, maybe they don't get it :-) )

[tgerring]

[...], so they will get the opportunity of accepting Bitcoin payment served on a silver plate.

+1 for making accepting Bitcoin as easy as possible before initiating the conversation. As a community, we should be doing this more.

[Stemby]

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/30/wikimedia-foundation-now-accepts-bitcoin/

\o/

[cdog]

I personally sent them several emails.

Im going to donate now.