http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitesupport
We've been getting donations through with text like "For the flood victims" - i.e., the donor thinks it's a donation to the subject of the article; and there's no reliable way to tell just who they were actually talking about. I changed it to "Donate to Wikipedia" to make it clear who a donation would be to.
I assume that's the right place to make the change, once it percolates through all the layers of caching, and it isn't actually supposed to be somewhere else ...
(I considered making it "Donate to Wikimedia", which is more correct, but I'd hope the page the link goes to would make that clear ... at least for those donors who read, if not those who've been thinking they could donate to the page subject on that link ...)
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:SitesupportWe've been getting donations through with text like "For the flood victims" - i.e., the donor thinks it's a donation to the subject of the article; and there's no reliable way to tell just who they were actually talking about. I changed it to "Donate to Wikipedia" to make it clear who a donation would be to.
I assume that's the right place to make the change, once it percolates through all the layers of caching, and it isn't actually supposed to be somewhere else ...
(I considered making it "Donate to Wikimedia", which is more correct, but I'd hope the page the link goes to would make that clear ... at least for those donors who read, if not those who've been thinking they could donate to the page subject on that link ...)
- d.
A good change but I do think we should stick to correctness and have it as "Donate to Wikimedia" instead. Also, the fact that people have been donating where they didn't intend to is something which I find fairly concerning personally.
Gdonato
On 8/18/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:SitesupportWe've been getting donations through with text like "For the flood victims" - i.e., the donor thinks it's a donation to the subject of the article; and there's no reliable way to tell just who they were actually talking about. I changed it to "Donate to Wikipedia" to make it clear who a donation would be to.
I assume that's the right place to make the change, once it percolates through all the layers of caching, and it isn't actually supposed to be somewhere else ...
(I considered making it "Donate to Wikimedia", which is more correct, but I'd hope the page the link goes to would make that clear ... at least for those donors who read, if not those who've been thinking they could donate to the page subject on that link ...)
- d.
I agree, that could be made clearer. I also think that http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising could be made clearer as to what you're actually donating to.
Also, I like "Support Wikipedia" better than "Donate to Wikipedia". I think that the word "donation" has the wrong connotation, more "Disaster-relief" and less "Non-profit foundation"
--Oskar
Also, I like "Support Wikipedia" better than "Donate to Wikipedia". I think that the word "donation" has the wrong connotation, more "Disaster-relief" and less "Non-profit foundation"
I prefer "donate". Giving money to a non-profit is a donation, so "donate" is the correct word. "Support" can be in all kinds of forms, for example signing a petition is a way of supporting a cause, no money or anything else with monetary value changes hands. A donation is a form of support, certainly, but if we're talking about donations, why not say "donate"?