Anthere wrote:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_partners_and_hosts
This page is very badly outdated. Could it be possible that it be cleaned up and straightened before the beginning of the fundrive (roughly a good week) ?
Thanks
Ant
If there's going to be another fundraiser soon, does anyone know if any progress has been made towards accepting credit card donations?
I believe that this could significantly improve the amount of money donated, by removing a barrier to donation for people would like to donate but do not have PayPal-style accounts, and do not want the hassle of money orders, inter-bank-transfers and so on.
This has been promised for the last two fundraisers, and has never happened; it might be even worth delaying the forthcoming fundraiser for a week or so if this made accepting credit cards possible.
Googling for "credit card processing" unearths large numbers of companies offering to do nearly all the work for you on this, for a fixed fee per transaction (a few tens of cents) and a small percentage of the value of the transaction.
I seem to recall that the setup is generally on the lines of: * set up a CC processing account with the vendor, which generally requires a small amount of checking of your credentials * registering an SSL certificate for your domain [wikimedia.org, presumably] (takes a few hours, and a fax or two if you're in the phone book), and serving your payment page via HTTPS * creating/installing a CGI / web form script for that page with a bit of prevalidation logic (all needed fields filled in, right number of CC# digits, Luhn checksum and other sanity checks) that then proxies the finished CC payment requests to the processor's actual online CC acceptance server, also via HTTPS, for a final go/no go decision.
Once it's set up once, you can then accept CC payments from anywhere in the world, and you can of course change CC processors at a later date with much less hassle.
Presumably Bomis and/or Jimbo know everything there is to know about this; perhaps they might be willing to lend some technical / financial know-how?
-- Neil