Is the donor anonymous? If not - who was it, what was their stated reason, and how much was their donation?<br>Should we have a "donation meter" on top of the WM-au site - whilst the Foundation's goes up to 6million ours can go all the way to $25. We're bound to hit our target that way!<br>
<br>On a more serious note:<br>What is the rules about donations received in australia being given to the Foundation. I know that the law in Germany says this is not allowed and therefore the German chapter uses their money to provide things like the tool server. In other countries they are allowed to pass the money forward and this is what they do - the money going into the Foundation's larger collection. This will not affect us this year but it may do in the future. What is the law/our rules?<br>
<br>-Liam<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/25/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brianna Laugher</b> <<a href="mailto:brianna.laugher@gmail.com">brianna.laugher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey all,<br> <br> I thought I would let you know something cool. We have just received<br> our first donation! :)<br> <br> I received a couple of emails to our contact address about how to<br> donate or if donations to us were tax deductible. (For the record they<br>
are NOT.) I think it is people coming via the WMF fundraiser<br> <<a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate</a>>.<br> <br> It surprises me pretty well because if you go through how many clicks<br>
you have to do to actually get to the WMAU website, it's really not a<br> trivial thing at all.<br> <br> So I set up a page <<a href="http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Donate">http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Donate</a>> that will<br>
hopefully better funnel these hardy link-followers towards our<br> coffers, since they are so keen. :)<br> <br> Anyway... how exciting is that! We are the lucky recipients of amazing<br> goodwill towards Wikipedia. Let us take that and then earn some more<br>
in our own right as well.<br> <br> cheers<br> Brianna<br> <br><br> --<br> They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:<br> <a href="http://modernthings.org/">http://modernthings.org/</a><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br>
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