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flo's avatar

Are Paypal and credit cards the only way people can contribute to Wikipedia?

Asked by flo (13313points) November 29th, 2017

Is there another way of contributing, since there is the problem of hacking? Equifax and other sites come to mind.

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Muad_Dib's avatar

I mean, it’s a lot easier to defraud you by stealing a check from the mail.

zenvelo's avatar

You can use amazon pay.

Equinox is not a payment system, it is a financial information storage system. The security for each is structured differently. Contributing to Wikipedia is as safe as paying your electricity bill on line.

johnpowell's avatar

I did it for you…

https://stfudamnit.com/ryan/wiki.png

https://stfudamnit.com/ryan/wiki1.png

In your name. Not actually in your name since that isn’t a option. But I already donated and wouldn’t have done it again but I did so consider it in your name.

Now the next time you see a homeless person kick them five bucks for food or beer or whatever and we will call it even.

flo's avatar

@zenvelo You mean Equifax not Equinox, right? Anyway I was referring to hacking in general not hacking of the payment systems only.

@johnpowell Thank you, but I’m confused. You can’t pay with anything else just credit card or paypal right? Why is that?

johnpowell's avatar

It looks like there are other options. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give

Which actually rings a bell. I remember when they removed bitcoin. They were saying that too many options on the donation “nag thing” actually reduced donations. Like it overwhelmed people and they gave up.

zenvelo's avatar

@flo yes, I meant Equifax, which got auto-corrected to Equinox. But the alternative to paying on line is to mail them a check.

flo's avatar

But why isn’t it on Wikipedia (not on Wikimedia Foundation, Is it like the logos of Honda and Hyuindai?) that you can send them a check?

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