Yes you are right! I always mix charity and non profit. But yeah, Wikimedia became a huge organization with an annual budget of 150M$ (of which a lot goes to completely unrelated pet projects), so it is a non profit only in a technical sense as you said.

But it still feels the need to plead (or almost beg) for 3-5$ donations yearly with huge call to action banners on every wiki page. Which is okay, I get that they need funds. But to then throw away 140 000$ worth of donations on a whim completely contradicts the "every dollar counts, please help" message of their fundraising banners.

> But to then throw away 140 000$ worth of donations on a whim completely contradicts the "every dollar counts, please help" message of their fundraising banners.

The former is a community decision, the latter is done by the WMF. Many in the community, probably a majority, are very annoyed by WMF's yearly dishonest begging runs, and WMF's interference in WP operations in general.

I’m not sure how scale affects whether something is “non profit” or not.

This decision has been taken by the community, aka users. This isn’t a decision the WMF has taken, nor have they responded thus far.

Where is the line for what they should accept as payment?

It should be the same line regarding fiat so kinda low i'd say

Should they accept anything that can be exchanged for fiat without too much fuss?

I don't know, do they really check who donated fiat comes from and refuse donations when it comes from, let's say, anyone involved in anything against their values ?

Checking this may be impractical. But for crypto donations, you don't need to check - you _know_ that it was generated in an environmentally-unfriendly way (at least for the currencies currently accepted).

Since cross chain activity is made available that's not true, I could do 100% of my money on avalanche or solana and bridge some only to donate

Aren't you just moving the work to someone else, who had to mine a Bitcoin block for your donation transaction to go through?

eth is moving to proof of stake imminently

If I was waiting on a bus that was supposed to arrive “imminently” for this long I’d be well pissed off.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/05/11/vitalik-buterin-say...

I got sick of hearing this claim years ago. At this point, it's tantamount to gaslighting.

Yes? As long as "without too much fuss" holds - I don't see why not.

Then why not just accept serious stablecoins ? No speculations over it, just a virtual dollar, energy efficient allowing freedom and privacy to a lot ?

So military surplus? Brown coal? These are things with functioning markets. Should wikipedia be obligated to accept my donation of them?