[Foundation-l] Donation banner and strongly negative reactions

[Robert Rohde]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Bence Damokos <bdamokos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

As I understand, it donations less than $0.30 go entirely to PayPal.
There is no cost to the WMF if the donation is less than $0.30, but
there is also no gain.

-Robert Rohde