Support VexiWiki
Every flag page, fact card, and quiz on VexiWiki is free to read and always will be — there's no paywall on the core reference. Keeping it that way, and keeping it accurate, still costs real time: a government renaming its flag mid-cycle, the way Turkey rebranded to Türkiye, is the kind of change that can't wait for the next scheduled refresh, and neither can a reader-reported error. Population figures need an annual refresh against the latest UN data, and every new country story is researched and cross-checked against multiple sources rather than copy-pasted from a single page, per the process described on the Methodology page.
If the site has been useful — for a lesson plan, a trivia night, a school project, or just settling an argument about which country's flag isn't a rectangle (Nepal, if you were wondering) — a small donation helps cover hosting costs and the research time that keeps facts current rather than frozen at launch. Donations start at $5 and go entirely toward keeping the reference accurate: hosting, the annual population-data refresh, and time spent verifying corrections readers send in.
This isn't a subscription and there's no recurring obligation — a one-time contribution of any size at or above the $5 minimum is genuinely appreciated and directly funds keeping this a site you can trust to be current, not just launch-day accurate.
What a donation actually funds
Concretely, a contribution goes toward three things: server and hosting costs for a site that serves flag SVGs and fact cards to every visitor, the annual pass through the UN's population data to re-verify and update every country's figures, and the hours spent reading reader-submitted corrections and checking them against a primary source before they go live. None of it goes toward advertising spend or paid growth tactics — this is a reference site funded by the people who find it useful, not by ad inventory sold against it.
VexiWiki isn't a registered nonprofit, so a donation here is a direct contribution to an independently-run site rather than a tax-deductible charitable gift — worth knowing before you give, so there's no confusion at tax time.
Other ways to help
Not everyone is in a position to donate, and that's fine — the free reference isn't going anywhere either way. If you'd still like to help, the two most useful things a reader can do are: report an error or outdated fact through the contact page when you spot one, since reader corrections are how most factual updates on this site actually start, and mention the site to a teacher, student, or trivia enthusiast who'd get real use out of it. Word of mouth from someone who's actually used the site does more for a small, independent reference than almost any other kind of promotion.
A note on trust
A reference site that relies on donations has an obvious incentive problem if it isn't careful: chasing traffic or engagement can quietly pull it away from accuracy. The commitment here runs the other way — support funds the unglamorous parts of the job (an annual data refresh, checking a correction against a primary source before it goes live) rather than anything designed to drive more page views. If that ever changes, it should show up first as content that gets sloppier or more clickbait-shaped, and readers are always welcome to call that out through the contact page. If you'd rather support the site through a purchase than a donation, the World Flags Learning Pack is a paid product that also happens to fund exactly the same ongoing work — a $9.99 flashcard-and-worksheet set that gets used, rather than a straight donation, if that framing suits you better.