I took that new survey that's up and the part about donating got me thinking about a couple of things that have been on my mind about the subject. First, when you go to the donations page, it give you an option to make a "one time donation". Personally I'd like to set up an automatic, periodic donation rather than have to remember to wander by manually. Something like $18/month is what I give some other organizations. It would be really nice if that kind of thing could be implemented.
Second, what ever happened to our merchandise store? I think the one on Cafepress is still there http://www.cafepress.com/wikipedia, but it isn't linked to from the donations page anymore and good suggestions on the talk page on meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Store) have been sitting stale without any action, some for years now. I think the store project should be re-activated and expanded- why should others be making money from the "citation needed" bumper stickers, for example?
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Elias Friedman elipongo@gmail.com wrote:
I took that new survey that's up and the part about donating got me thinking about a couple of things that have been on my mind about the subject. First, when you go to the donations page, it give you an option to make a "one time donation". Personally I'd like to set up an automatic, periodic donation rather than have to remember to wander by manually. Something like $18/month is what I give some other organizations. It would be really nice if that kind of thing could be implemented.
While we no longer publish a direct link to recurring payments, you can access a form that sets up a recurring payment through this link: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising/USD/monthly.
Please bear in mind, however, that this subscription payment is set up through PayPal, and if you need to make any changes or cancel it, you must do it through PayPal.
Second, what ever happened to our merchandise store? I think the one on Cafepress is still there http://www.cafepress.com/wikipedia, but it isn't linked to from the donations page anymore and good suggestions on the talk page on meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Store) have been sitting stale without any action, some for years now. I think the store project should be re-activated and expanded- why should others be making money from the "citation needed" bumper stickers, for example?
I'll ask about this.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.comwrote:
While we no longer publish a direct link to recurring payments, you can access a form that sets up a recurring payment through this link: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising/USD/monthly.
Please bear in mind, however, that this subscription payment is set up through PayPal, and if you need to make any changes or cancel it, you must do it through PayPal.
Paypal says the link is invalid and won't let me in using it.
Second, what ever happened to our merchandise store?
I'll ask about this.
-- Casey Brown Cbrown1023
Thank you! :-)
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Elias Friedman elipongo@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.comwrote:
While we no longer publish a direct link to recurring payments, you can access a form that sets up a recurring payment through this link: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising/USD/monthly.
Please bear in mind, however, that this subscription payment is set up through PayPal, and if you need to make any changes or cancel it, you must do it through PayPal.
Paypal says the link is invalid and won't let me in using it.
Hmm, maybe that's too old then. :-)
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