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mikewirth

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Quote from: guybrushthreepwood on December 08, 2014, 07:17:18 AM

Quote from: DGulari on December 06, 2014, 07:07:56 PM

Quote from: qxzn on December 06, 2014, 07:01:48 PM

Quote from: DGulari on December 06, 2014, 06:29:56 PM

Please do not donate to this unsophisticated ancient website.

Any respectable modern website would recognize modern convenient means of donation. I'll tell you what Wikipedia, if you publish your address, I'll send you a check. Remember checks? LOL!! Morons.

you do realize they allow bitcoin donations, right?

That might be true, but they build their donation page as if they don't. So in effect, they don't. In other words, their user interface if very bitcoin unfriendly - even if they will accept bitcoin in some other medium. They need a QR code on that page or people can easily donate in bitcoin without searching around for 30 minutes. I am giving nothing.

Lol, seriously? They accept it and that's good enough. What do you want? A massive flashing bitcoin logo on their homescreen? Something tells me you wouldn't actually donate to wikipedia anyway so it's probably irrelevant.

What? Are you stupid? If it is very hard to use and to find the donation page buried deep in some tree structure with shitty interfaces, which don't work - you still say 'they accept bitcoin'? Nobody will use bitcoin if it isn't easy to use and promenantly displayed. fuck Wikipedia - most of that site is all trash anyway. Don't donate. Maybe we can choke them off and a new site will come along.

ChuckBuck

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Yea it is kind of wack for Wikimedia to require you to put so much personal information:

Kind of defeats the purpose of Bitcoin being a truly anonymous no strings attached method of payment.

At least other non profits like Mozilla, United Way, and Tor Project are more accessible and require less info when donating Bitcoin to them:

http://www.unitedway.org/pages/donate-bitcoin-to-united-way

https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate

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Quote from: TippingPoint on December 07, 2014, 01:04:39 PM

"To protect our independance, we'll never run adds"

To protect my independance, I won't give you my name.

do yo need to give your name if you make a btc donation??

Krona Rev

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Quote from: TippingPoint on December 07, 2014, 01:04:39 PM

"To protect our independence, we'll never run ads"

To protect my independence, I won't give you my name.

Kudos. Excellent response.

guybrushthreepwood

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Quote from: DGulari on December 06, 2014, 07:07:56 PM

Quote from: qxzn on December 06, 2014, 07:01:48 PM

Quote from: DGulari on December 06, 2014, 06:29:56 PM

Please do not donate to this unsophisticated ancient website.

Any respectable modern website would recognize modern convenient means of donation. I'll tell you what Wikipedia, if you publish your address, I'll send you a check. Remember checks? LOL!! Morons.

you do realize they allow bitcoin donations, right?

That might be true, but they build their donation page as if they don't. So in effect, they don't. In other words, their user interface if very bitcoin unfriendly - even if they will accept bitcoin in some other medium. They need a QR code on that page or people can easily donate in bitcoin without searching around for 30 minutes. I am giving nothing.

Lol, seriously? They accept it and that's good enough. What do you want? A massive flashing bitcoin logo on their homescreen? Something tells me you wouldn't actually donate to wikipedia anyway so it's probably irrelevant.

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Quote from: DGulari on December 06, 2014, 06:29:56 PM

Please do not donate to this unsophisticated ancient website.

Any respectable modern website would recognize modern convenient means of donation. I'll tell you what Wikipedia, if you publish your address, I'll send you a check. Remember checks? LOL!! Morons.

If u r bothered about look & feel, u might try http://www.wikiwand.com.

By the way, the parent organization of Wikipedia, The Wikimedia Foundation do accept bitcoin.

e4xit

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Quote from: DGulari on December 06, 2014, 06:29:56 PM

Please do not donate to this unsophisticated ancient website.

Any respectable modern website would recognize modern convenient means of donation. I'll tell you what Wikipedia, if you publish your address, I'll send you a check. Remember checks? LOL!! Morons.

Nice respectable, modern web browser, guy.

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Quote from: jubalix on December 07, 2014, 02:03:01 AM

until BTC button is on the donate page it does not count.

How one earth they don't do this is beyond me. It goes agaisnt the ethos of everything they should stand for, plus they are just being dicks about it, which is far worse

Took me 10 seconds (on a modern browser), if you dont want to give, dont.

exoton

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Quote from: 1Referee on December 07, 2014, 06:00:22 PM

Quote from: exoton on December 07, 2014, 05:41:40 PM

Quote from: TippingPoint on December 07, 2014, 01:04:39 PM

"To protect our independance, we'll never run adds"

To protect my independance, I won't give you my name.

As mentioned above, it is possible they collect your name (among other information) so you can receive a tax deduction the following April when you file you taxes. I would think that most people would likely want to take advantage of such tax breaks.

Additionally, from what I can tell they do not check your identity information for accuracy, so there is nothing to prevent you from saying your name is "John Doe" who lives at "123 Main street"

I wonder why Mozilla doesn't require anyone to fill in so many details.

They only ask for your email address.

They are probably classified as different kinds of charities under the IRS tax code. Only charities that meet certain criteria can allow donors to deduct donations on their taxes.

1Referee

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Quote from: exoton on December 07, 2014, 05:41:40 PM

Quote from: TippingPoint on December 07, 2014, 01:04:39 PM

"To protect our independance, we'll never run adds"

To protect my independance, I won't give you my name.

As mentioned above, it is possible they collect your name (among other information) so you can receive a tax deduction the following April when you file you taxes. I would think that most people would likely want to take advantage of such tax breaks.

Additionally, from what I can tell they do not check your identity information for accuracy, so there is nothing to prevent you from saying your name is "John Doe" who lives at "123 Main street"

I wonder why Mozilla doesn't require anyone to fill in so many details.

They only ask for your email address.

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Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on December 07, 2014, 01:12:59 PM

Quote from: DGulari on December 06, 2014, 07:07:56 PM

That might be true, but they build their donation page as if they don't. So in effect, they don't. In other words, their user interface if very bitcoin unfriendly - even if they will accept bitcoin in some other medium. They need a QR code on that page or people can easily donate in bitcoin without searching around for 30 minutes. I am giving nothing.

yeap, true.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_chugging/

Hmmm... Perhaps thay aren't terribly interested in the kind of transparency that Bitcoin allows for.

exoton

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Quote from: TippingPoint on December 07, 2014, 01:04:39 PM

"To protect our independance, we'll never run adds"

To protect my independance, I won't give you my name.

As mentioned above, it is possible they collect your name (among other information) so you can receive a tax deduction the following April when you file you taxes. I would think that most people would likely want to take advantage of such tax breaks.

Additionally, from what I can tell they do not check your identity information for accuracy, so there is nothing to prevent you from saying your name is "John Doe" who lives at "123 Main street"

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Quote from: DGulari on December 06, 2014, 07:07:56 PM

Quote from: qxzn on December 06, 2014, 07:01:48 PM

Quote from: DGulari on December 06, 2014, 06:29:56 PM

Please do not donate to this unsophisticated ancient website.

Any respectable modern website would recognize modern convenient means of donation. I'll tell you what Wikipedia, if you publish your address, I'll send you a check. Remember checks? LOL!! Morons.

you do realize they allow bitcoin donations, right?

That might be true, but they build their donation page as if they don't. So in effect, they don't. In other words, their user interface if very bitcoin unfriendly - even if they will accept bitcoin in some other medium. They need a QR code on that page or people can easily donate in bitcoin without searching around for 30 minutes. I am giving nothing.

yeap, true.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_chugging/

TippingPoint

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"To protect our independance, we'll never run adds"

To protect my independance, I won't give you my name.

jubalix

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until BTC button is on the donate page it does not count.

How one earth they don't do this is beyond me. It goes agaisnt the ethos of everything they should stand for, plus they are just being dicks about it, which is far worse

Krona Rev

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Quote from: DGulari on December 06, 2014, 07:45:55 PM

Quote from: 1Referee on December 06, 2014, 07:42:29 PM

It's a shame that we need to fill in so many details just to donate a few bucks.

This indicates further that Wikipedia simply doesn't understand Bitcoin.

I agree, but I try to be more positive about it. When an organization like Wikipedia asks for identifying information, that's their way of letting me know that the organization is run by evil people. That's useful information to have when deciding where to make donations.

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You're never too old to think young.

I tried to tell them to post a Bitcoin address last year during a donation campaign. Shame on them for not providing one.

I'd love to make an anonymous Bitcoin donation because I appreciate the service they provide and the worldwide cooperative nature of Wikipedia content.

Their loss.

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Quote from: DGulari on December 06, 2014, 07:45:55 PM

Quote from: 1Referee on December 06, 2014, 07:42:29 PM

It's a shame that we need to fill in so many details just to donate a few bucks.

This indicates further that Wikipedia simply doesn't understand Bitcoin.

While you do not need to reveal yourself as part of the Bitcoin protocol they may need your personal information for some kind of compliance purpose (to comply with some law or regulation). I am not 100% sure what kind of "chairity" wikipedia is (what part of the tax code they fall under) however if donations are tax deductible they will need your information so they can give you a tax form so you can receive a tax deduction for your donation

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Quote from: 1Referee on December 06, 2014, 07:42:29 PM

It's a shame that we need to fill in so many details just to donate a few bucks.

This indicates further that Wikipedia simply doesn't understand Bitcoin.

1Referee

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If you search for wikipedia donation you'll see the first page http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give

They listed Bitcoin along with the other payment options.

It's a shame that we need to fill in so many details just to donate a few bucks.

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