[Foundation-l] Donation banner and strongly negative reactions

[Bence Damokos]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter Jacobi wrote:
> > Regarding the statistics page:
> >> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:ContributionStatistics
> >
> > The "minimum" columns isn't that useful. I'd propose using its
> > space for a "median" column.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter
>
> I understand how the minimum donated some day can be $0.01 USD. But 0.00?
> Looks like it's saying "The person who donated the less, didn't donate"
>
> I suppose that it was a donation on a different currency, valued less
> than $0.01, but then it should probably be shown with more decimal digits.
>
> How useful are donations smaller than a cent?


If I recall last year's discussions, most donations under a dollar actually
cost more to the WMF than they bring in (due to PayPal transaction fees).
Also, I saw somewhere in the plans a Javascript solution to set the minimum
donation so that every donation brings in money (~1$ mimimum donation).

Regards,
Bence Damokos