I agree absolutely with this, give people a way to show they are a *committed* supporter of WMF. Perhaps it's something like "I support WMF with regular donations, why don't you?" or "I support WMF with regular donations, click this link and see why you should too".
I really like the idea of having a pledge bank and keeping people who are making regular, albeit small, donations informed about what WMF is up to. If we can say, "Your donations allowed us to run a number of workshops in South Africa. That was 3 months ago, the Africaans Wikipedia has grown by x hundred articles since then." My objective here? You're showing donors that their money is making a difference, even if - with English WP at 2 mill+ articles - they never notice the difference.
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dalton Sent: 22 November 2007 14:16 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Pledge bank
On 22/11/2007, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
I have no idea how you'd word it, but a certificate like the donation gift cert. would be a good thing to go with a pledge bank. People can print out
a
document that says "I am committed to donating $x per month to Wikimedia
to
spread access to knowledge."
A small banner thing for people to put on userpages, blogs, etc. saying a similar thing would be good (possibly with the option of not specifying the value of the donation - the aim is to get regular donations, not large ones, so we don't want to discourage small donations).
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