Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes by majority vote

Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by mardifoufs on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:09AM (#31011958)

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.

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by formerly_proven on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:58AM (#31012201)

> 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.

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by topranks on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:02AM (#31013638)

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.

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by jackvalentine on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:10AM (#31011969)

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

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by 0xRolex on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:19AM (#31012009)

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

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by jackvalentine on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:53AM (#31012174)

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

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by 0xRolex on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @04:38AM (#31012406)

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 ?

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by Liquid_Fire on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:07AM (#31012548)

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).

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by 0xRolex on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:23AM (#31013797)

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

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by Liquid_Fire on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:39AM (#31013917)

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

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by wahnfrieden on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @06:59AM (#31013200)

eth is moving to proof of stake imminently

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by topranks on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:07AM (#31013687)

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...

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by robonerd on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @10:45AM (#31015276)

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

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by 5560675260 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @04:46AM (#31012452)

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

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by 0xRolex on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:01AM (#31012521)

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

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Re:Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes b... by jackvalentine on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:26AM (#31012659)

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

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