[Foundation-l] Project-specific donation landing page

Tempo D. Valse tempodivalse.wiki at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 17:44:51 UTC 2011


Greetings all,

I've noticed that the "Donate" link in all English Wikimedia projects' sidebars
goes to the following page:

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

This is a fine landing page for Wikipedia readers, but if someone from
Wikibooks,
Wiktionary, etc, sees this, he could become confused where donations will go to,
because there is no mention of the local project, or even the
Wikimedia Foundation (!).

I understand that Wikipedia is the WMF's most popular and successful project,
and should be publicised the most in fundraising. But this current
approach is not fair to
sister projects, many of which are struggling to develop their own identity from
the encyclopedia.

I'd like to suggest that each sister project have its own dedicated
donation page,
with an explanation that donations will go to the Foundation, which
also runs Wikipedia,
etc. That isn't explained in the current appeal.

Best regards,

-Tempodivalse



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