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.
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Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])