[Foundation-l] Pledge bank

[Thomas Dalton]

> I really like the idea of having a pledge bank and keeping people who are
> making regular, albeit small, donations informed about what WMF is up to. If
> we can say, "Your donations allowed us to run a number of workshops in South
> Africa. That was 3 months ago, the Africaans Wikipedia has grown by x
> hundred articles since then." My objective here? You're showing donors that
> their money is making a difference, even if - with English WP at 2 mill+
> articles - they never notice the difference.

The problem is, most of the money goes on just keeping the servers
running, it doesn't go on anything interesting.