[Foundation-l] Raising funds without being quite so annoying to readers

[Theo10011]

WereSpielChequers, I believe we either tried or considered all those things
and more.

I think we established continuing donations sometime half-way through the
fundraiser, it mostly depends on the payment intermediaries- Philippe and
Megan really worked hard on getting it. From what I recall, Zack and the
rest of the team considered all those things and many more to reach out to
possible benefactors during the fundraiser. They didn't just consider money
raised per ad, but a whole host of metrics about every banner and every
minute detail.

Do bear in mind that there are a lot of legal limitation when dealing with
such an international user-base - things like merchandising are governed by
non-profit policies, internationalizing is another issue we have to
consider. The foundation is limited in that option and that is where the
chapters need to take the lead in establishing donation infrastructure in
their respective countries.


Theo


On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:00 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 March 2011 14:19, Neil Harris <neil at tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > And also, WMF should make it possible to accept continuing donations as
> > a subscription on a monthly basis.
>
>
> Even better, they should do this already!
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Monthly_donations/en
>
> (a link from http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate with the words
> "If you'd like to make an automatic monthly donation please click
> here."
>
>
> - d.
>
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