diff --git a/gnu/packages/wget.scm b/gnu/packages/wget.scm
index 3d4ea9456f..d7ac9e0c12 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/wget.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/wget.scm
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
 ;;; Copyright © 2012 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
-;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2019 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
+;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
 ;;;
@@ -176,4 +176,5 @@ online pastebin services.")
    (description "GNU Wget2 is the successor of GNU Wget, a file and recursive
 website downloader.  Designed and written from scratch it wraps around libwget,
 that provides the basic functions needed by a web client.")
+   (properties '((ftp-directory . "/gnu/wget")))
    (license (list license:gpl3+ license:lgpl3+))))