[WikiEN-l] Sidebar donation link on en:wp changed

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 8/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitesupport
>
> We've been getting donations through with text like "For the flood
> victims" - i.e., the donor thinks it's a donation to the subject of
> the article; and there's no reliable way to tell just who they were
> actually talking about. I changed it to "Donate to Wikipedia" to make
> it clear who a donation would be to.
>
> I assume that's the right place to make the change, once it percolates
> through all the layers of caching, and it isn't actually supposed to
> be somewhere else ...
>
> (I considered making it "Donate to Wikimedia", which is more correct,
> but I'd hope the page the link goes to would make that clear ... at
> least for those donors who read, if not those who've been thinking
> they could donate to the page subject on that link ...)
>
>
> - d.

I agree, that could be made clearer. I also think that
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising could be made clearer
as to what you're actually donating to.

Also, I like "Support Wikipedia" better than "Donate to Wikipedia". I
think that the word "donation" has the wrong connotation, more
"Disaster-relief" and less "Non-profit foundation"

--Oskar