On 03.09.2010, 20:05 James wrote:
Donors should be allowed to optionally mark their donations for projects including (1) the review of externally submitted code, (2) the production of image bundles along with the dumps, (3) auctioning the order of appearance of several search failover gadget links to external search engines (such as users were able to use before they were rendered unusable by the usability project) to wealthy search engine donors, (4) a way to pay people who work on the bugzilla queue (e.g. through http://odesk.com or the like) without having to set up lengthy contracts, and (5) a way to pay for Wikinews journalism awards, travel expenses, reporters, fact checkers, photographers, camera and recording equipment, and proofreaders, etc.
99.99(and dunno how many more nines)% of donors will donate just "for Wikipedia". People don't care how things work, they simply want them to work. It's Wikimedia Foundation's responsibility to use these donations to make things just work for as many people as possible.