[Foundation-l] Fundraising Drive, January 2005

[Angela]

The fundraising drive for this quarter will be held later this month,
possibly to coincide with "Wikipedia Day" (January 21) as Daniel
proposed last month.

Before this launches, it would be nice to have some more responses to
the questions I put at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_drive and also additions of
any other fundraising ideas at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_ideas

The way the site notice is used could be improved before the next
drive. The message used was very bland and could be made more
motivational. This should be decided very soon to allow time for
translations to occur before the drive starts. Will it be possible to
have a real-time display of donations during the drive? Are any
developers willing to work on this before mid-January?

How the drive is going to be advertised besides the site notices needs
to be considered. Will it be possible to combine this with a press
release? Perhaps something about the fourth anniversary of Wikipedia?

We hope to have a system of membership set up by this date so that, as
well as making donations, people can become members of the Foundation,
and choose to make regular payments if they wish. Tim Starling is
currently working on creating the database we need for this, along
with membership options in the user preferences. The budget for this
quarter will also be created before the fundraising drive, with
details of proposed hardware purchases so donors know where their
money is going.

Improvements to the fundraising pages at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising are also welcome.
Comments can be made at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_site_feedback since the page
is not openly editable.

Angela.