Thanks for the quick reply. :-) Le 12 novembre 2010 21:17, Frédéric Schütz <sch...@mathgen.ch> a écrit :
> Bank check ? This is not a bank check. What is suggested is that people > should make an online donation using ebanking. > > Now, for the record, this was a specific request from the Swiss chapter. > Last year, without accepting credit card, Wikimedia CH got the highest per > capita donations among all chapters -- and, at the same time, we probably > paid the lowest fees per donation among all chapters. > > So we specifically requested that Swiss people can pay by ebanking (or > other ways of paying money to our bank account), since this is by far the > most common way of donating in Switzerland (see for example www.bonheur.ch, > one of the most well-known charities in the country -- what you see on the > main page is a red payment slip with the account number, before any credit > card option). > Fair enough. The french landing page <http://www.wikimedia.ch/Donate/fr>does mention e-banking, but its english translation <http://www.wikimedia.ch/Donate/en> doesn't. Plus, I bet a few explanations for novices would be useful. There is no point doing this. Broadly speaking, people want to donate to > "Wikipedia" and anything else is confusing (and not worth doing, since the > chapters share their revenues with the WMF anyway). A concrete example of > problem: several people made a donation to the WMF last year, and then asked > Wikimedia CH for a tax receipt that we were not able to provide. They were > not happy. Allowing them to choose where their donation goes with only make > things worse. > > Frédéric > I left a message at the French-speaking village pump<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro/13_novembre_2010#Lev.C3.A9e_de_fonds_:_page_de_donation_pour_la_Suisse.2C_y.27a_du_boulot>, I suggest we continue the discussion specific to the Swiss donation page there. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
