On 20 July 2014 00:07, Michael Peel <email@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