On 1 Oct 2004, at 16:39, Timwi wrote:
Anthere wrote:
Roughly, the goal is
- to add to preferences a mention of default joining the foundation
when creating an account, and adding a link to an opt-out option
He wants to add and option (possibly a tickbox) to the account creation page, allowing the person creating an account to automatically join the Wikimedia Foundation as well.
- set a form to join as a contributing member.
He wants that there be an optionally accessible form allowing people to sign up as a contributing member of the Wikimedia Foundation right at account signup.
The paiement itself should be multilingual, include several different amounts, and allow the person to enter a preference for use of part of the fee.
Not sure if I understand him correctly on this one, but he probably wants to offer people who sign up as contributing members different amounts of recurring contribution/member fees.
Generate a tax receipt for us contributors (desactivated for now).
He wants an option to get tax receipts for the contributions (which would remain deactivated until the Wikimedia Foundation is fully accredited as tax exempt in all of the U.S. (and thus, by merit of international treaties, abroad as well).
- Find a solution to add as contributing members, editors who paid
fees in a local chapter.
He wants to allow people who already pay membership fees/recurring contributions to local chapters of the Wikimedia Foundation to get registered with the Wikimedia Foundation proper as contributing members without paying twice -- they'd continue to pay the local chapter but would hold equal standing as people who hold their membership directly with the Wikimedia Foundation.
- store all data about the member as "confidential" data (another db
or encryption).
He wants to have all pertaining personal data securely stored in another database or encrypted in the same database.
Make it available automatically for voting.
He wants mechanisms that would allow Wikimedia Foundation members to seamlessly participate in Foundation elections, possibly w/o having to log in separately.
- Generate an access and interface of some sort, so that someone can
consult/manage the list of members.
He wants to allow for the list of Wikimedia Foundation members to be retrievable and manageable via an appropriate interface to the database holding that list.
No offense to you, Anthere, but I don't understand any of this. Quite frankly, this is quite poor English, which for me (as a non-native speaker) is impossible to parse. I understand the task is to add an option in the preferences. That's all I can figure out. What is the option supposed to do?
Sorry :/ Timwi
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