Reply from Wikipedia: "Currently 'monitoring bitcoin with interest'"

[SonofPegasus]

Wikipedia is making another push for donations, so I e-mailed them yesterday telling them that I would love to donate if they accepted bitcoin.  Here was the response:

Michael Beattie, Nov 29 09:10 am (PST):

Thanks for your email and for your suggestion. We are aware of bitcoin, and we will continue to monitor it with interest. Thanks again for taking the time to email us.

Sincerely,

Michael Beattie
Donor Services Associate
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
https://wikimediafoundation.org
Support us: https://donate.wikimedia.org


Let's all send a quick e-mail to throw our support behind wikipedia's acceptance of virtual currency.  It takes a minute and could go a long way.  I plan on responding that I appreciate the consideration and will be making a small donation in the meantime.

[BitchicksHusband]

Wikipedia is making another push for donations, so I e-mailed them yesterday telling them that I would love to donate if they accepted bitcoin.  Here was the response:

Michael Beattie, Nov 29 09:10 am (PST):

Thanks for your email and for your suggestion. We are aware of bitcoin, and we will continue to monitor it with interest. Thanks again for taking the time to email us.

Sincerely,

Michael Beattie
Donor Services Associate
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
https://wikimediafoundation.org
Support us: https://donate.wikimedia.org


Let's all send a quick e-mail to throw our support behind wikipedia's acceptance of virtual currency.  It takes a minute and could go a long way.  I plan on responding that I appreciate the consideration and will be making a small donation in the meantime.

What's the e-mail address?  I'll tell them I will donate $10 as soon as they accept it in bitcoin.

[SonofPegasus]

Wikipedia is making another push for donations, so I e-mailed them yesterday telling them that I would love to donate if they accepted bitcoin.  Here was the response:

Michael Beattie, Nov 29 09:10 am (PST):

Thanks for your email and for your suggestion. We are aware of bitcoin, and we will continue to monitor it with interest. Thanks again for taking the time to email us.

Sincerely,

Michael Beattie
Donor Services Associate
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
https://wikimediafoundation.org
Support us: https://donate.wikimedia.org


Let's all send a quick e-mail to throw our support behind wikipedia's acceptance of virtual currency.  It takes a minute and could go a long way.  I plan on responding that I appreciate the consideration and will be making a small donation in the meantime.

What's the e-mail address?  I'll tell them I will donate $10 as soon as they accept it in bitcoin.

E-mail:
fundraising@wikimedia.org

If everyone just takes a minute to e-mail this could be the biggest media pump yet!

[rayfloyd]

They have that email as an auto-reply when bitcoin is mentionned for quite a while now I believe.

[rmines]

Would be nice to see wikipedia accepting BTC donations.

[LiteCoinGuy]

they are so stupid. its so simple to accept BTC 

[SonofPegasus]

They have that email as an auto-reply when bitcoin is mentionned for quite a while now I believe.

Maybe - but we can just write BTC or virtual currency or whatever.

The fact is that even with an auto-reply they will know there is a growing push for them to accept BTC, and this will only speed up the process.  They clearly have a team dedicated to fundraising and love $$ as much as the next non-profit.

Regardless, a 10 second e-mail does not hurt!

[fluidjax]

emailed... I will donate as soon as its done.

[LiteCoinGuy]

emailed.  

[aleprok]

Emailed! 

[Patzek]

Emailed.

I hope they will get the hint.
It's kind of silly since so many people might donate if they just get btc.

[Mondy]

I swear they already accept btc

[hilariousandco]

I swear they already accept btc

Wikileaks. Wikipedia is stupid for not accepting 'em. Do they not want free money that'll probably've doubled by the time they get around to doing something with it?

[pand70]

Obviously anyone is monitoring bitcoin lately. Wikipedia lost a great opportunity during the early early days to benefit greatly from bitcoins.
Well it is never to late and it will be good pr anyway 

[Lauda]

They've been saying that for a long time now.

[Mike Christ]

For people who need money badly, they sure do hate money.

[hilariousandco]

Hi. I am Mr Wikipedia and can proudly announce that we now accept cryptocurrencies!

To donate, please send coins to the following addresses:

Bitcoin: 1BxtA9j2qD9KZKnrihiuB7YmZT8rr6Rimh
Litecoins to: LeGwkGcgB8piPgsLB4hiHoGHytGzVo57Tj
Feathercoins to: 6jMX3vHgmm43Z9Scg9ZeP7ixryk1f9cQum
Infinitecoins to: iPkMVrrPyh5MTqYLvU19mYYEyfYP3i92Tb

Thanks  .

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Hi. I am Mr Wikipedia and can proudly announce that we now accept cryptocurrencies!

To donate, please send coins to the following addresses:

Bitcoin: 1BxtA9j2qD9KZKnrihiuB7YmZT8rr6Rimh
Litecoins to: LeGwkGcgB8piPgsLB4hiHoGHytGzVo57Tj
Feathercoins to: 6jMX3vHgmm43Z9Scg9ZeP7ixryk1f9cQum
Infinitecoins to: iPkMVrrPyh5MTqYLvU19mYYEyfYP3i92Tb

Thanks  .

Wow! Finally! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=352479.new

BTW, I didn't know Jimmy Wales was a Scientologist. Can't wait to see him on Oprah.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Time for me to send Wikipedia an email:

$1,000 USD Bitcoin Donation to Wikipedia

I'm well aware that others before I have written you fine folks about accepting bitcoins as one of your donation options. I fully expect to receive the same auto-response reply they have gotten in the pass.

But, since I represent Bitcoin 100, I want to declare that once Wikipedia starts accepting bitcoin donations, Bitcoin 100 will send a $1,000 USD donation in BTC to any Bitcoin wallet address provided under your control, predicated that funds are still available, of which currently we have $163,475.59 in our coffer as seen here: https://blockchain.info/address/1BTC1oo1J3MEt5SFj74ZBcF2Mk97Aah4ac

If or when a decision is made for Wikipedia to start accepting donations in bitcoins, please consider using Bitpay (https://bitpay.com/) as your payment provider, whereupon you'll never incur a processing fee.

I'm from Sandwich, Illinois, currently in Pensacola, FL, to help a Bitcoin-accepting NPO, Sean's Outpost, with their Thanksgiving at Satoshi Forest endeavor to feed the homeless. Once I leave here, I'm heading to a two-day Las Vegas conference to raise a million dollars via strictly bitcoins for the Typhoon Haiyan Relief Fund.

As you're well aware, Bitcoin is now a force to reckon with and, sooner or later, the major NPOs and NGOs worldwide will be accepting bitcoins to not only increase their fund raising drive efforts, but lower their cost as well when doing such.

Allow me to share with you something I found on the internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle. Clearly, Wikipedia can be an "Early Adopter" or a "Laggard". It's your call, but we at Bitcoin 100, along with the Bitcoin community, hope you wisely choose the former and lead the way for all other NPOs/NGOs to follow in your footsteps, oppose to you wise folks following in some other's.

Sincerely,

Bruno Kucinskas a.k.a. The Most Interesting Bitcoiner in the World

815-508-1668

[cedivad]

Bruno Kucinskas a.k.a. The Most Interesting Bitcoiner in the World

(facepalm)