On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Philippe Beaudette pbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
When we get letters saying things like "I'd donate, but only to Wikipedia, not to Wikimedia", it spells out for us that it's possible we could attract more people with the institution of Wikipedia than the institution of Wikimedia.
Are the donations which were made to Wikipedia, and not Wikimedia, going to be restricted for use only by Wikipedia, or was this a bait and switch.
Maybe the people who say they'd "donate, but only to Wikipedia, not to Wikimedia" really do want to donate, but only to Wikipedia, not to Wikimedia.
Suggesting that it was criminal is... well, regrettable.
I didn't consider that possibility until you explained that the intention was to trick people into contributing to Wikimedia when they really wanted to contribute to Wikipedia.