Erik wrote:

Mav, if you become treasurer (you have my vote),

Er, thanks. But I would like to reiterate that I don't want any special Wikimedia office. However, I do understand that certain things simply need to get done, so if nobody else who is qualified, motivated and trustworthy wants it, then I'll be the treasurer (which is a very important, yet not very sought after, officer postion).

and you keep a time based record of all donations I might add a chart to the stats pages.

That would be neat, but just make sure it is clear that the money is for the Wikimedia Foundation and not just for Wikipedia. It might also be neat to think of ways to make your stats script Wikimedia wide, without confusing the distinction between articles, entries, quote pages, and modules (not to mention project-specific counts).

It might serve as an extra reminder that donations are welcomed.

Every bit helps!

BTW, in the next update of the wonderful stats script you wrote, could you change each use of "Phase III" to "MediaWiki" and maybe provide a link to http://mediawiki.org ?

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)