#### POLL#### Bitcoin Donation to Wikipedia

[firewire2013]

Supporting Wikipedia for their virtual encyclopaedia service, whilst spreading the Bitcoin word across the planet.

This is in support of an email I sent this morning, asking if they would accept Bitcoin as donations, once completed I will send Wikipedia the results.

Hopefully the results will be positive

[1714689470]

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[gjgjg]

You know they accept donations in btc already, right? http://m.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give

Sorry, mobile link ;p

[sandy47bt]

You know they accept donations in btc already, right? http://m.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give

Sorry, mobile link ;p

I never know wikipedia already accept BTC
Looks like they already accept bitcoin a year ago

http://time.com/3059325/wikimedia-wikipedia-bitcoin-donations/
http://www.coindesk.com/wikipedia-now-accepts-bitcoin-donations/

[Madness]

Supporting Wikipedia for their virtual encyclopaedia service, whilst spreading the Bitcoin word across the planet.

This is in support of an email I sent this morning, asking if they would accept Bitcoin as donations, once completed I will send Wikipedia the results.

Hopefully the results will be positive

yes I do the support the idea fully but ...
They do accept Bitcoin as donations already , you can see the article here => http://www.coindesk.com/wikipedia-now-accepts-bitcoin-donations/
Besides They make around 210 million dollar each month just by Ads from their website & more millions via Affiliate Links so yeah ... I don't think they need any donations to be honest ... still a good idea to make bitcoin more known and make people show their appreciation

[doof]

Yep, old news.

[pawel7777]

Already donated, twice.

They started to accept BTC around Aug last year.

Wikipedia Raises $140k in First Week of Bitcoin Donations:

http://www.coindesk.com/wikipedia-raises-140000-first-week-bitcoin-donations/

Lock thread?

[kl8847]

Hundreds of thousands in first weeks of donation! That's a money nice to see there are plenty kind people

[firewire2013]

Well maybe they should make it clear, I dont see any option for accepting BTC.

Have a look for yourself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Then along the left hand side select Donate to Wikipedia

[Divinespark]

Have donated to wikipedia already, will continue to support them from time to time

[bornil267645]

Just because it helped me, doesn't mean I have to give away the smallest of bitcoin I have. If I had many then I would have given some.

[pawel7777]

Well maybe they should make it clear, I dont see any option for accepting BTC.

Have a look for yourself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Then along the left hand side select Donate to Wikipedia

Yup, it's a bit hidden. On the bottom of donate page there's small 'Other ways to give' hyperlink, which will direct to:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give

Bitcoin is listed there.

[LiteCoinGuy]

i have already done this, yes 

[pozmu]

I would never domate to them, btc/ fiat it doesn't mater, I don't think they really need such support, I think they're beggars.
A lot of companies would support this project in exchange for a small button/ banner but they want to keep it 100% ad free, I don't think it's really worth it if you need to beg for support to keep it ad free.

[randy8777]

i don't use it that much but would consider donating a few $ worth of BTC

[EFS]

I wouldn't donate to heavily censored centralised digital encyclopedia. It's full of wrong information, I rather keep my Bitcoins in my wallet.

[pawel7777]

I wouldn't donate to heavily censored centralised digital encyclopedia. It's full of wrong information, I rather keep my Bitcoins in my wallet.

Then don't.

Surely there are many sensitive subject/entries you can disagree with. But there's still plenty of useful info there. It would be hard, if not impossible, to find any internet user who has never made use of Wikipedia.

[jacktheking]

Wikipedia is already accepting Bitcoin, like what others said. However, not many people donate to them using Bitcoin because.. they require lots of information before we can donate. Donation should be anonymous..

[ChuckBuck]

This is super super super super super old news, BTC has been a donation option by Wikimedia for months now.

What's terrible about the process is putting in your personal info just to donate Bitcoin:



Stupid on Wikimedia for making what's supposed to be an anonymous process, not so anonymous.

[pawel7777]

Wikipedia is already accepting Bitcoin, like what others said. However, not many people donate to them using Bitcoin because.. they require lots of information before we can donate. Donation should be anonymous..

There was a thread somewhere about this.

They have to ask for such info to produce the receipt you can use for tax deduction. If you want to remain anonymous, just enter fake info, they won't verify it. Problem solved.

[PaulPierce]

Why not ? Wikipedia already helped me almost everyday in my life
So, donate a bit of my bitcoin it's no problem

I dont think there is anyone with a computer and internet connection who hasnt been helped by Wikipedia.! It would be awesome if they accept BTC.!