[Foundation-l] Fundraising notice (on de)

[Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales]

There was an unintentional miscommunication.  The notice was only
supposed to be on en, due to an expected slashdotting.  I expect my
interview results to be posted there tomorrow or the next day, and we
expect therefore to be slashdotted again then.

But since that doesn't directly affect non-en wikipedia, the notice
should only go on en.  The fact that it went elsewhere was just a
mistake.

--Jimbo

Arne Klempert wrote:

> The fundraising notice for the German Wikipedia has been temprarily
> disabled. We think that since the German Verein will need a few more
> days to be able to receive donations ...
> 
> It would be counterproductive to direct people to a page prompting them
> to make donations to a US account. Knowing Germans, that will result in
> relatively few donations. (Many Germans, for example, don't have a
> credit card.) If on the other hand we wait for a few days, until the
> bank account for the Verein has been set up, we estimate that we will
> recieve much more donations.
> 
> It would be nice if such actions were discussed beforehand.
> 
> -Arne (akl)
> 
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