It has been like this for a decade. If you were able to donate, they may not have recognized you as a Finnish user.
Finnish law doesn’t allow for sad messages like wikipedia might go bankrupt if you don’t donate that wikipedia has been using. Which is also a lie. Wikipedia has a multi billion dollar investment portfolio and is just asking for money because they can scare it out of people. TL;DR Finnish law doesn’t allow scam money collecting tactics that wikimedia uses.
Even legit donations like earthquake victims abroad is banned without police permit. It is a good thing though.
I don’t say this for Wikipedia(they don’t deserve donations anymore) but if you really want to donate something not available in Finland, use VPN.
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[https://finlex.fi/en/legislation/collection/2019/863](https://finlex.fi/en/legislation/collection/2019/863)
It has been like this for a decade. If you were able to donate, they may not have recognized you as a Finnish user.
Finnish law doesn’t allow for sad messages like wikipedia might go bankrupt if you don’t donate that wikipedia has been using. Which is also a lie. Wikipedia has a multi billion dollar investment portfolio and is just asking for money because they can scare it out of people. TL;DR Finnish law doesn’t allow scam money collecting tactics that wikimedia uses.
Even legit donations like earthquake victims abroad is banned without police permit. It is a good thing though.
I don’t say this for Wikipedia(they don’t deserve donations anymore) but if you really want to donate something not available in Finland, use VPN.
You can donate by changing FI to EN
https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALandingPage&country=us&uselang=en
You are able to donate but they are not allowed to advertise it.
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