On 20 July 2014 00:07, Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
Hi Richard/WMUK staff,
I'm rather puzzled by this. Given that:
1) WMUK cannot raise funds through the Wikimedia annual fundraising
campaign any more, which means that the number of donors through that
method will not be increasing, and that the apparent alignment of this
position with the fundraising period (the position wraps up at the end of
Jan 2015) is rather misleading (unless WMUK is planning to compete against
the annual fundraiser);
Isn't that itself a rather misleading statement of the position?
WMUK will not be doing payment processing for the WMF fundraiser, as we
know, which takes place over the "holiday season" now in some
English-speaking countries, but at other periods in other parts of the
world. Talking about "the" fundraising period for the WMF is not quite what
it seems.
WMUK has its own donor base, and raising funds from them over the same
"holiday" period is legitimate. It is when many people turn their minds to
charity.
It is certainly an operational matter. "Planning to compete against the
annual fundraiser" seems to me a slanted way to view approaching donors who
have given to WMUK in the past, on the grounds that they may also see a
fundraising banner on the site.
Charles