[WikiEN-l] Fundraising Banner

[Elias Friedman]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I would appreciate it if you could copy this message to the relevant
> pages on en.wp.
>
> First: Does Wikimedia have a funding crisis, does it need to ask
> people for money?<snip>
>


The problem I have with this is as I have stated several times in the past
few weeks is that other methods that have worked seem to have been dropped
or neglected.

There isn't a way to set up an automatic monthly donation, an option I think
many would like, I know I would.

The concept of selling merchandise seems to have fallen completely dead.
There are no links anymore leading to the store on Cafepress

http://www.cafepress.com/wikipedia

Do we even get the money from that store anymore?

Suggestions on the store's talk page on Meta have been ignored, some for
YEARS.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Store

What is up with that? There are some really good ideas there. I'll bet you
we could make more money every month selling T-shirts than we could raise by
donations. Why isn't this being re-activated?


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Elias Friedman A.S., EMT-P ⚕
elipongo at gmail.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elipongo