[Foundation-l] fundraising page - shouldn't we note what we are aiming for? - Wikimedia-l

30 Jul 2004

--- Marco Krohn &lt;marco.krohn(a)web.de&gt; wrote on Wikipedia-l:
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  ....
 Following the first link I would like to suggest changing 
 two things:

 * there still is a link to Brion Vibbers notebook fund at the very end of the

 page. Don't get me wrong, Brion deserves a lot more money than he probably 
 gets through donations, but linking to a page which seems to be outdated 
 doesn't look good to me.  
The link now goes directly to a PayPal payment form instead of Brion's outdated
notebook fund page. I plan to add other developers in that section as well.
More changes and improvements are also planned for the new WMF website that
Brion is helping us set up. 

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  * the fundraising page doesn't contain information
how much money we are 
 aiming for. A potential donator would just see that we have ~20 K$ on our 
 account and many probably will think "well, they probably have enough money".

That is because 
1) We don't have an approved budget
2) This is not a real fund drive (the message is en.wikipedia specific)

Daniel Mayer,
Wikimedia CFO

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