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

> * set a form to join as a contributing member.

> 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.

> Generate a tax receipt for us contributors (desactivated for now).

> * Find a solution to add as contributing members, editors who paid > fees in a local chapter.

> * store all data about the member as "confidential" data (another db > or encryption).

> Make it available automatically for voting.

> * Generate an access and interface of some sort, so that someone can > consult/manage the list of members.

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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

On 1 Oct 2004, at 16:39, Timwi wrote: 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. 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. 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. 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). 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. He wants to have all pertaining personal data securely stored in another database or encrypted in the same database. He wants mechanisms that would allow Wikimedia Foundation members to seamlessly participate in Foundation elections, possibly w/o having to log in separately. 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >

Oops. '''Sorry'''. /me acknowledges his total ignorance of the (French? given name?) "Anthere". Sad, sad, sad, ;-) -- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]] www.ropersonline.com On 2 Oct 2004, at 04:18, Anthere wrote: > Thanks for your clarification Jens :-) > > (I am relieved to see you could understand me) > > PS : she, not he, she. >

Timwi a écrit: Hummm The fact is 1) I have no idea when the redesign will be done (it has been an ongoing discussion for a long time). Prospectives ? 2) if there are some implications in the redesign, then, it is a GOOD idea that the membership considerations are taken into account in the redesign. Other than that, I realised I forgot to put a few relevant links in the process :-) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_task/membership http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Membership fees and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_agenda A meeting of the board is planned next week end, and the question of how membership will be handled will be discussed (ie, if no online solution, we might to have to set a traditional paper membership) .