ProleWiki:Donate

Thank you for supporting ProleWiki, comrade!

Donations such as yours is the only revenue ProleWiki makes. Everyone that works on ProleWiki is a volunteer who gives a lot of their free time to improve our pages and manage the encyclopedia, it is thanks to them that we now have more than 3000 pages on our encyclopedia!

We use donations to pay for the hosting costs (216 USD per year, with a reserve of 2 years), and any use of the excess is voted on democratically.

Please find our various ways to donate by clicking here.

Our financials are transparently logged here.

Terms of sending donations

Donations made to ProleWiki are normally not tax deductible -- check if they can be in your legislature.

Any donations sent to ProleWiki are subject to the platform's Terms of Service that the donation was made on.

Additionally, ProleWiki does not normally refund donations once received. However, if a donation was mistakenly entered in good faith, please contact us as soon as possible.

When making a donation to ProleWiki, you agree that it is your responsibility to make sure the funds were not obtained in an unlawful manner. The recipient of the funds denies all responsibility in regards to the provenance or nature of such donations.

By sending any amount of money through the various methods listed below, you agree to the above terms.

Democratic intent on the excess

If you contribute to ProleWiki, you can join our Discord and democratically decide on how we spend our funds. You will be able to get the contributor role which gives you access to a specific channel without having to go through vetting.

Please do note that receiving the contributor role does not make one immune to rule violations.

Our current strategy is to hold 2 years worth of hosting (currently 432 USD) in a bank account expressly created for ProleWiki. Any excess past that amount can be discussed and voted on as for what to do with it.

Donation methods

These are sorted by most recommended first.

Recurring payments

Liberapay

Liberapay is similar to Patreon, but it allows donators more control over their spending (choosing their amount as well as a weekly or monthly donation) and respects privacy. As such, we recommend it over Patreon.

Patreon

Patreon is easy to use, but since it's closed source and US-based, we might risk becoming deplatformed for ideological reasons. But please support us there while you can!

One time transactions

Paypal

Our PayPal is prolewiki AT yandex.com. We are in the process of setting up a paypal.me link to make payments easier, as you need a PayPal account to donate directly through the email address.

Pix

Pix is a direct payment processor found in Brasil. With it, you can make donations in Brazilian Real (BRL) directly without fees. This is the random key to send it to:

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Redbubble store

We now have a Redbubble store where you can get stickers, pins, tote bags, t-shirts and other items with our logo.

Cryptocurrencies

Our current crypto strategy is to sell everything as soon as we receive crypto, so that we receive exactly the value of your donation.

Monero

Monero is a privacy cryptocurrency, which is is used to keep donors anonymous.

Donation address:

44BsTH5AVfqKrTTQjLsSwoTUv6iNYqaj8hEqUdmrKFbf23AqxYTRKsg1mphJXbMADS8oqdWnfrdi5USC2Sph7jb5VaiJYyt

Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a little less anonymous if you're not careful, so donate at your own risk. Due to Bitcoin's transparency, anyone is able to verify how much is in the wallet.

Donation address:

bc1q8k83tj80rfes007k7juxm3rzhyvyx3dnn90fx9

You can verify this address and its transaction activity here. Again, donors' addresses are publicly visible on the blockchain, so if you'd like to avoid that, please use Monero.

Current contributors

Patreon

Comrade

• CaesarNK ($10/month)
• Kaza ddum ($11.76/month)

Fellow traveller

• Dmitri ($5.56/month)
• Nikhil Sharma ($5/month)
• AT42 ($5/month)

One time transactions

• Comrade Deogeo ($200)
• Edward ($50)
• commiewithoutorgans (€27.73)
• Christopher ($25)
• Luke (€10)
• Ronan ($10)

Liberapay

• Comrade Al-Andalusian ($2.5/week)
• dessalines ($1/week)
• ksynwa ($0.48/week)
• Clark ($0.25/week)
• AsleepInspector ($0.96/week)

Income and expenses

The following table is populated from ProleWiki:Donate/Financial, only showing records after 2022. Previous records are in the linked page. If you've got ideas of how this information could be better organized, please add your thoughts to the talk page.

Disclaimer: The bank balance is what we have available to be used, all other donations listed are awaiting to be processed by the respective payment services and cannot currently be used by us.

Balance (last updated August 1st 2024)

Bank balance	R$6855.6 BRL (~$1234.01)
Recurring Patreon donations	$30 USD
Recurring Liberapay donations	$0 USD
Monthly expenses	$0 USD

(exchange rates may be outdated)

Financial record

Date	Item Description	Item Type	Amount
July 2024	Payments made	Expense	0 BRL
July 2024	Donations received	Donation	150.84 BRL
June 2024	Payments made	Expense	0 BRL
June 2024	Donations received	Donation	388.24 BRL
May 2024	Payments made (hosting, domain name)	Expense	1010.24 BRL
May 2024	Donations received	Donation	128.48 BRL
April 2024	Payments made	Expense	0 BRL
April 2024	Donations received	Donation	148.82 BRL
March 2024	Payments made	Expense	0 BRL
March 2024	Donations received	Donation	146.44 BRL
February 2024	Payments made	Expense	0 BRL
February 2024	Donations received	Donation	624.61 BRL
January 2024	Payments made	Expense	0 BRL
January 2024	Donations received	Donation	167,86 BRL
December 2023	Payments made	Expense	0 BRL
December 2023	Donations received	Donation	144.62 BRL
November 2023	Payments made	Expense	0 BRL
November 2023	Donations received	Donation	301.54 BRL
October 2023	Payments made	Expense	0 BRL
October 2023	Donations received	Donation	197.37 BRL
September 2023	Payments made	Expense	113.14 BRL
September 2023	Donations received	Donation	420.79 BRL