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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Donate to Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Donate to Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki}}
'''<span style="color: red;">THIS PAGE IS A DRAFT, DON'T DONATE YET</span>'''
If you want to help cover the monthly server hosting fee of the Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki, you can donate here:


If you want to help cover the monthly server hosting fee of the Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki, you can donate here.
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<s>[https://ko-fi.com/taylan Support bg3.wiki via Taylan's Ko-fi]</s> Cost for 2024 has been covered. Thank you! ❤️
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== Important information before you donate! ==
== Important information before you donate! ==
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First of all:
First of all:


# Payments go to the Ko-Fi account of Taylan, the wiki's founder and systems administrator.
# Payments go through the Ko-Fi account of Taylan, the wiki's founder and systems administrator.
# Taylan is hosting the wiki on a server from Hetzner Online GmbH, costing 55 EUR per month.
# Taylan is hosting the wiki on a server from Hetzner Online GmbH, costing 55.57 EUR per month.
# On Taylan's Ko-Fi page, you will see a donation goal every year to cover that year's costs.
# On Taylan's Ko-Fi page, you will see a donation goal every year to cover that year's costs.
# '''Please don't send any more money after the yearly goal is reached.'''
# '''Please don't send any more money after the yearly goal is reached.'''
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Furthermore:
Furthermore:


# Taylan may use the server for unrelated private projects.
# Taylan may also use the server for projects unrelated to the Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki.
# This generally demands less than 5% of the server's available resources.
# This generally demands a very small fraction of the server's available resources.
# To justify this, Taylan will cover 5 EUR (about 9%) of the monthly hosting fee.
# To justify this, Taylan will cover 5.57 EUR (10%) of the monthly hosting fee.


This leaves '''50 EUR per month (600 per year)''' to be covered by the Ko-Fi donations.
This leaves a flat '''50 EUR per month (600 EUR per year)''' to be covered by the Ko-Fi donations.


== OK, I want to donate ==
== Lack of anonymity of donors ==


'''Please don't donate if the yearly goal shown on the Ko-Fi page has already been reached:'''
Please be aware that [https://help.ko-fi.com/hc/en-us/articles/12284014348189 '''Ko-fi donations are not anonymous''']:


[https://ko-fi.com/taylan '''Go to Taylan's Ko-Fi page''']
# You are not sending money to Ko-fi, but to Taylan's PayPal account, using the Ko-fi interface.
# At the time of this writing, Ko-fi supports PayPal and Stripe as the actual payment processors.
# PayPal and Stripe both share your legal name, and email address, with the recipient (Taylan).
# If anonymity is important to you, you could donate through a third party, or choose not to donate.
 
See Ko-fi's [https://more.ko-fi.com/privacy privacy policy] and [https://more.ko-fi.com/terms terms of use] for more details.

Latest revision as of 17:28, 18 May 2024

If you want to help cover the monthly server hosting fee of the Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki, you can donate here:

Support bg3.wiki via Taylan's Ko-fi Cost for 2024 has been covered. Thank you! ❤️

Important information before you donate!

First of all:

  1. Payments go through the Ko-Fi account of Taylan, the wiki's founder and systems administrator.
  2. Taylan is hosting the wiki on a server from Hetzner Online GmbH, costing 55.57 EUR per month.
  3. On Taylan's Ko-Fi page, you will see a donation goal every year to cover that year's costs.
  4. Please don't send any more money after the yearly goal is reached.

Furthermore:

  1. Taylan may also use the server for projects unrelated to the Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki.
  2. This generally demands a very small fraction of the server's available resources.
  3. To justify this, Taylan will cover 5.57 EUR (10%) of the monthly hosting fee.

This leaves a flat 50 EUR per month (600 EUR per year) to be covered by the Ko-Fi donations.

Lack of anonymity of donors

Please be aware that Ko-fi donations are not anonymous:

  1. You are not sending money to Ko-fi, but to Taylan's PayPal account, using the Ko-fi interface.
  2. At the time of this writing, Ko-fi supports PayPal and Stripe as the actual payment processors.
  3. PayPal and Stripe both share your legal name, and email address, with the recipient (Taylan).
  4. If anonymity is important to you, you could donate through a third party, or choose not to donate.

See Ko-fi's privacy policy and terms of use for more details.