[Wikipedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Donation History

[Daniel Mayer]

Christopher Mahan wrote:
>I personally see an advantage to showing each 
>individual transaction by day, so that if someone 
>wanted to make sure that their $21.00 transaction 
>on then 17th was counted and didn't "fall through 
>the cracks", they could verify it.

Exactly! People like feedback. 

>Also, it will also show the donation amounts, so 
>that people who would normally not consider 
>donating because their donation might seem to 
>little might be encouraged to see donations of $1 
>or $2  (it only takes a few thousand of those to add 
>up to some big money) 

As a matter of fact there were hundreds of donations below US$10. Many of 
those were just a dollar or two. However, the per transaction PayPal cost is 
relatively high for such small amounts (up to 40 cents for a single dollar 
donation in some cases). 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)