Wikipedia Accepting Donations - page 2.

Phinnaeus Gage

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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending

Quote from: Littleshop on July 29, 2011, 05:43:02 PM

Several years ago I donated to wikipedia. I won't do it again, even if I could use bitcoin.

They are way to delete happy. I frequently come into deleted articles and even the bitcoin page has been totally cut down in size. I can understand cutting pictures out, but text (if correct, no matter how esoteric) takes almost no space.

Read your sig, Littleshop, and it got me a thinkin' 'bout bumper stickers, which led to police officers, then started to thinkin' 'bout bribes. Bribes and campaign donations. Untraceable donations. All a politician has to do is keep their noses out of Bitcoin's business, and we'll all be happy campers.

Littleshop

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Several years ago I donated to wikipedia. I won't do it again, even if I could use bitcoin.

They are way to delete happy. I frequently come into deleted articles and even the bitcoin page has been totally cut down in size. I can understand cutting pictures out, but text (if correct, no matter how esoteric) takes almost no space.

Phinnaeus Gage

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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending

Quote from: BitcoinBabe on July 29, 2011, 02:22:56 PM

Quote from: the founder on July 29, 2011, 01:40:17 PM

It's not a bad idea at all... but it would most likely take some of bitcoin players to contribute to this. Let's say one of the exchanges waives all fees to convert the donated coins to USD for them then it's something that would get them press and allow for wikipedia to collect USD from bitcoins.

I'd be willing to make it easier for them to get donations... flexcoin id : wikipedia for example

but the converting to USD has to be though an exchange.

Or side-step the whole exchange hoopla and make it easier to donate using bit pay.

https://bit-pay.com/home.html

Basically, I was seeing them (Bitcoin/Bit-Pay) working in concert together to make this a most viable option. I kinda forgot about the donation banner being splashed on every page. I like the sound of that word: splash. You can almost hear the sound of a bitcoin hitting the water of a virtual wishing well.

Bitcoin: Have You Made the Splash?

BitcoinBabe

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Side-stepping the matrix | Bit by bit

Quote from: the founder on July 29, 2011, 01:40:17 PM

It's not a bad idea at all... but it would most likely take some of bitcoin players to contribute to this. Let's say one of the exchanges waives all fees to convert the donated coins to USD for them then it's something that would get them press and allow for wikipedia to collect USD from bitcoins.

I'd be willing to make it easier for them to get donations... flexcoin id : wikipedia for example

but the converting to USD has to be though an exchange.

Or side-step the whole exchange hoopla and make it easier to donate using bit pay.

https://bit-pay.com/home.html

the founder

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Bitcoin

It's not a bad idea at all... but it would most likely take some of bitcoin players to contribute to this. Let's say one of the exchanges waives all fees to convert the donated coins to USD for them then it's something that would get them press and allow for wikipedia to collect USD from bitcoins.

I'd be willing to make it easier for them to get donations... flexcoin id : wikipedia for example

but the converting to USD has to be though an exchange.

Newton

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This is a good idea.

As the 7th most popular website in the world, any presence here is enormously valuable. They also splashthe donation request on every page, and do not allow any other advertising.

Having a bitcoin donation option is a win-win, and would be enormously significant for bitcoin.

Yuusha

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The best way would be if a lot of people simply mailed them and requested a Bitcoin donation button. Pledging to donate if one is implemented may also help.

Phinnaeus Gage

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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending

http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_JMvKA_0729_KA_author/en/US&utm_source=B_JMvKA_0729_KA_author&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C_JMvKA_0729_US&country=US&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMain_Page

It's that time of year again, folks. Wikipedia is on their annual donation drive. What I would like to see is a Bitcoin donation button on Wikipedia. Although the sum total collected this year may be small, it will easily be surpassed next year. Next year it may read: Wikipedia collected X BTC in donations last year. Our modest goal is to double that this year. Click the Bitcoin button on the left or right of this page, depending on you political affiliation, or the big Bitcoin button on the top of the page if you're an "other".

I believe they just started this drive, so it's not to late to get a Bitcoin button in place.

Any comments? Anybody here have an inside to Wikipedia?

Bitcoin: Donate Anonymously

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