Are Paypal and credit cards the only way people can contribute to Wikipedia?
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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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I mean, it’s a lot easier to defraud you by stealing a check from the mail.
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.
I did it for you…
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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.
@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?
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.
@flo yes, I meant Equifax, which got auto-corrected to Equinox. But the alternative to paying on line is to mail them a check.
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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