Hi,
Here is some note by Amit Abhyankar on Facebook. There are similar comments on this post.
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I guess most of us have received this message when accessing Wikipedia.
While there is nothing wrong in asking for donations, I didn't like the
tone of this appeal.
The way it says 'reader in India' and 'This is
the 6th appeal' doesn't sound right to me... Not sure why... but it
just doesn't.
I mean, we have not entered into a contract that says
we will donate whenever you need us to... Then what's with counting the
number of times this appeal has been shown?
I ofcourse support Wiki
as a movement, have donated in the past and will donate again in
future... But how about telling us how much money you need and a live
tracker that shows how much of the goal has been achieved?
Transperency is the key to running a movement.
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If a common person gets such feeling from the fundraiser banner, the thought arises about what kind of survey/study is made by WMF before pushing this to the users.
btw,
Someone pinged me to ask if I know anyone of mailing list admins as his/her mails were not reaching to the mailing list. Dont know if there is any problem. (was using a nickname)
More interesting was what he/she mentioned about the fundraiser. The QR code mentions "to pay" some company from Delhi that is not so old and has just Rs. 1 lakh capital !! I havent got time to get into these things but if this is true, I suppose WMF study/research/selection of partner is questionable.
I hope WMF people will respond to this.
Regards,
-Sudhanwa