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Please note: This page is concerned with the website http://wikimediafoundation.org, the official website of Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, which runs over 700 websites. For comments and feedback to those websites, it is preferred that you go to them directly. Hi,

I tried to enter a donation of $25 and then chose "donate using Paypal." I got an error message saying "You must enter a valid amount." YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT EASY TO DONATE!! Also, I really had to hunt around for a place to send you this feedback. Why does the first page say "Questions?" (highlighted) and then not allow you to enter a question? YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT EASY TO ASK QUESTIONS LIKE THIS ONE! I want to help, but like most people I'm busy!!! Please correct and get back to me so I CAN GIVE YOU MONEY.

Sorry to hear you ran into trouble donating! Would you mind giving me some more information? What is the URL of the page you tried to donate? What browser/operating system are you using?

About the questions part, that should link to the FAQ where most of the common questions are answered already. Also, at the bottom of all the pages it says "Questions or comments? Contact the Wikimedia Foundation: donate@wikimedia.org". Posting here works too, but the other two options are the ones we prefer.

I hope this helps and thanks for trying to donate! Cbrown1023 talk 19:28, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I talked with some other people and we think we found the error. Were you trying to put "$25" in the box? You don't need to put the dollar sign ($) when you enter your own amount, because the currency is defined in the drop-down box on the right. Just type "25" in and it should work. Let us know if you run into any other problems! Cbrown1023 talk 20:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Donation replacement idea

You can provide privileged locked article for commercial enterprises. For example: lock the article about Coca-Cola on the Coca-Cola appointee so no one (except he/she) can edit it in any sense. And ask Coca-Cola to PAY for that privilege.

Not a good idea, these 'privileges' will eventually lead to Wikipedia being an advertising medium.

Grammatical error at Support Wikipedia/en

There is a grammatical error at the page currently linked to from the donation banner on Wikipedia. Under "FAQs," "We employ less than 30 people" should be "We employ fewer than 30 people" (less is only used for non-countable nouns--"less money" vs. "fewer dollars"). Thanks. Chick Bowen 05:38, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done MBisanz ^talk 05:53, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Link from - http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en

In the section:

How do you balance keeping Wikipedia open with making it more reliable?

We believe increased participation makes Wikipedia better. At the same time, we must maintain the tough standards that have made Wikipedia respected by scientists, academics, journalists, and foundations.

- the link from 'tough standards' leads to a 'no article' page:

"Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Editorial oversight and control in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings."

Fixed Thank you. - Rjd0060 13:44, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Giant sitenotice on top of Dutch Wikipedia

This thing is huge! This giant banner is showing for all of wiki-NL. Please make it smaller. User:Kwiki on Dutch Wikipedia 85.223.108.141 02:18, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hit the "[Verbergen]" in the upper-right corner to make it smaller. Cbrown1023 talk 02:20, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I know, but millions of wikinoobs don't. Anyways, I spoke about it on IRC and they convinced me this is the "correct" size, since it was the same size last year. I still think its way too big and I hope they can take it off soon; but now I know it is not a mistake (at first I thought it was a mistake because on my 24" screen at 1920x1200 it is 3cm by 45cm). I will hide it with CSS. 85.223.108.141 03:54, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done

DISPLAYTITLE

Please use this magic word in wmf:Support Wikipedia/en etc, to localize page titles and avoid those ugly language suffixes. --Liangent 12:46, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support buttons

Why not make a wikimedian button instead of just wikipedian? As for today I spend a lot more time taking picures for commons than writing articles. --Korall

I agree, Wiki button sounds good. Stuart Drossner

[1]

Hey, I don't think that I need an account BUT

Shouldn't it read "fewer than 30 people" rather than "less than 30 people" here?--138.38.221.18 07:37, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, thanks! --Erwin 08:58, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2009/Donate-banner/en

Please create templates on payments.wikimedia.org for different languages. Used by Special:PayflowProGateway --Liangent 13:23, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We're working on getting the templates uploaded. We should have most of them up soon. --Az1568 (talk) 00:18, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Link Update for Canada/US Tax Treaty

On http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Deductibility_of_donations#Canada, the link to the US-Canada tax treaty needs to be updated. The new one is http://www.fin.gc.ca/treaties-conventions/USA_-eng.asp. --Dbo789 06:34, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks. Cbrown1023 talk 03:20, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not change the looks of your website

Hello,

I came to know that you gonna change the online foundation structure. Thus for you are wanting donations. You can do it obviously. But please do not change the layout of any of them. When we surfs net we noticed that each and every website has complicated designs, where as you guys have such a nice design which pleased our eyes. You may add functionality, but please please don't change the layout.

Regards, Samik Dutta

Re: Donations Needed

Respected Foundation Representatives:

Thank you for putting a banner asking for donations at the top of the website pages. It brought it to my attention and gave a wonderful visual for what you have and what you need.

Please note - it is not enough. For the one inch x 5 inch space. You NEED more information or something to grab attention and ask for help!

People can set up automatic deductions from bank account straight to you. It's only a suggestion but its an important one. A person might not have 1 million dollars to donate, but they might have 1 to 5 dollars once a month for 12 months = $12 to $60 a year. Put in that light its doable and helpful.

It puts people in a long-term, pro-active state of help.

Why do I care to say this?

Wikipedia has tremendous flaws, but it is by the people, for the people and through the people. It is knowledge for everyone, with safety checks - eyewitnesses can correct anything or send a flag up if information is sufficient, yet not objective enough.

THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND.

History has always been written by the victors, the politicians or the slanted.

I have come here to research for my movie script because military-based data bases have almost no footnotes and very little eye-witness balances.

Please use the Foundation Banner space in a better way - PLEASE.

I have not donated yet, I am still a starving student living on student grants and loans, but I will put it on my Christmas list. So Best Wishes

Ms. Heidi Von Dunker

Raising Funds

I'm sure this has been suggested already but, if the foundation needs funds then perhaps it could consider opening itself up to advertising. This could be entirely optional. Users who follow the link to donate could be given an option "Enable Ads". Cookies would allow that user to be displayed ads whenever they use wikipedia. This could be turned off at any time. In terms of maintaining the integrity of the foundation, I'm sure that a set of guidelines could be established. These could ensure that advertising is not directed and that the foundation could be in no way considered to be taking donations from specific organisations. Perhaps give users a certain amount of control or establish an advertising "roulette" where ads could be displayed completely at random. While there are no doubt established issues in any kind of association with google there is no denying that tapping in to some of the massive revenue from google ads could raise significant funds. Good luck with your fundraising, hopefully I will personally be in a position soon to make a specific monetary donation.

I would enjoy donating to Wikipedia by using an Advertising Version of the site, if only there was one. As long as that version clearly showed the link for the add free version, many might happily use it just to help fund this most glorious adventure of a website. It would not be objectionable since it's use was entirely voluntary.

             David Ogilvie

Funding - attracting donations

If you need 6.6 Million dollars, have you considered having a Roll of Honour listing those individuals and organisations that have donated significant sums? (Or all donations?). I don't see one. Some people not currently donating might be willing to leave something in their will if they knew it would get their name up in 'perpituity'. They might even be moved to give something beforehand.

Thanks for sending in your feedback! We have two pages that serve that purpose, actually. The benefactors page lists all large donors from individuals and companies, while the contribution history page gives a list of all the donations we've received, the amount, date, and a public comment. Cbrown1023 talk 21:35, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support page error

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support/en

No links on this page to enable placement on other websites - at least I could not find them. All I saw was "<a" and nothing in the drop down.

Why can't go to the bottom of this page and hit a "send" button!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, sorry for the trouble with this. It's actually a box with HTML code that you can copy to other websites. To reduce the confusion, we've made the box larger. Cbrown1023 talk 01:58, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fundraiser - Dutch version - spelling mistake

At the top of the Dutch version of the fundraiser page it says "Meer mogelijkheide om te doneren vanuit buiten Nederland". "mogelijkheide" should be "mogelijkheden" (possibilities).

Done - Thnks for the note - Huib talk 21:40, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Donations

I might have considered a donation, if not the damn link from wikipedia WAS A JAVASCRIPT LINK - enough with this javascript crap! Insert REAL html links (href) not all this javascript - half the pages end up looking like crap if you don't happen to use the computer the author was using. --Werwrwer 04:14, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't say my decision to donate/not donate was affected by this, but it was certainly rather annoying. 82.6.105.198 23:18, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fact #4: [...] the sum of all knowledge.

The fact #4 that I might not know reads: "We exist so that every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge."

I didn't know this indeed, since most Wikipedias explicitly reject all but the most select pieces of knowledge - like, for example, not particularly notorious knowledge. The knowledge that there is a pink house on my street certainly qualifies for "the sum of all knowledge" but it does not qualify for Wikipedia. There are many other limitations that make the above statement extremely misleading. 82.6.105.198 23:18, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

While the pink-house example is perhaps a bit impractical, I completely agree with the underlying point. I used to be among the top 20 most active contributors in ~2003-2004, but now I've given up trying to create new articles or adding any new facts on both English and German Wikipedia because they just always get deleted for no reason. A project purporting to collect the "sum of all knowledge" would naturally welcome any such contributions about actual real topics, but clealy Wikipedia is not about collecting the "sum of all knowledge". — Timwi 05:51, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia can only have the knowledge of those that make an input. If University scholars and a growing majority of college students refuse to use and input data here, then this online encyclopedia will never live up to it's dream. Wikipedia is controlled and mainly edited by a young male orientated target demographic of computer literate (mainly techy) people, this itself is the biggest issue concerning this encyclopedia. It causes it to be biased. Such an example can be seen from the level of detail shown under computer games and microchip articles, compare Halo (the computer game) to an article on 'floristry' (with thousands of years of history and background) and you can see how unbalanced everything is (please note: the Halo article is wonderful, my point is; that not all other articles go into that much LOD and they should). If Wikipedia is to live up to it's dream, it needs to employ specialists to improve this type of content, and not just recruit 1000 back bedroom computer orientated people.

Donations online - information transmission security?

I would have donated, but I saw no indication that the information submitted online would be transported over the Internet in a secure fashion.

Donations - transaction declined

Well I tried to donate, with my totally valid American Express card, only to have payment declined, with please try later. Get it together, my enthusiasm for making a donation is declining!

Donations - Donations via PayPal direct debit not accepted

Couldn't donate using PayPal direct debit. A lot of people who would like to donate are probably excluded because they don't own a credit card.

Wikipedia is getting a rep

The reason I won't give to such a wonderful idea is the biased rep Wikipedia is obtaining. You'd be surprised the comments I get when mentioning Wikipedia and the stories about how not to rely on it. Launch a thorough review by 3 sources. Extreme left, extreme right, extreme middle and review and publish fairly. I'd bet the donations would start piling in if you could demonstrate clearly that Wikipedia is indeed a search for truth.

For submitting donations, use Google Checkout option as well.

Some of us want to contribute, but do not have a Paypal account and are hesitant to give credit card information over the web.

Include Google Checkout as well for accepting donations

Some of us do not have Paypal accounts.. and are hesitant to give out credit card information.

Donations:

'I noticed you have set certain donation amounts next to your donation button. I have an idea that may improve the amount of your donations, the frequency of your donations, and the total numbers of persons willing to donate and actually donating. '

This is my idea:

In place of writing a set amount of money to donate next to the donation button, why not try this? Design one page with different donation amounts ranging from $1 to unlimited.

The donate button will have nothing written next to it. The donation button will simply say "Donate", and visitors who wish to donate can click on the "Donate" button. Clicking on the donation button will lead each visitor to a page containing the different donation amounts.

Clicking on the donations' button leads the visitor who wishes to donate to the donations' page. On reaching the donations' page,

the visitor immediately observes a short message on top that quietly trumphets wikimedia accomplishments,

-what wikimedia has acheived,

-and how wikimedia is helping the world today through its' informational, educational contributions.

-And the fact that all wikimedia asks is for visitors who like wikimedia and read wiki articles frequently,

-all wiki asks is for readers, visitors to voluntarily contribute from time time to help wiki continue in its' quest to educate, enlighten the world.

From the donations' page, visitors who wish to donate observe different donation amounts from $1 to unlimited. An unlimited donation amount is any amount a visitor wishes to physically type into a blank donation text box. To start the visitor donations rolling, the donations page presents to each visitor examples of donation amounts.

Example: $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11, $12, $13, $14, $14, and on listing donations in numerical amounts. The whole page is set up with checkboxes. Each checkbox has next to it a different donation amount. The donations count forward starting from $1 to $25. On reaching $25, The donation amounts are listing in multiples of $5 each.

Example: $25, $30, $35, $40, $45, $50, $55, $60 and on up to $100. On reaching $100, the donation amounts count forward starting from $100 to $200, in amounts of $10.

Example: $100, $110, $120, $130, $140, $150, $160, $170, up to $200. The donations page is subdivided into sections. Each section requests donations in differing amounts.

Example: Section one, includes checkboxes counting donations in amounts from $1 to $25,in $1 amounts.

Example: Section two, includes checkboxes counting donations in amounts from $25 to $100, in $5 amounts.

Example: Section three, includes checkboxes counting donations in amounts from $100 $200, counting in amounts of $10.

Example: Section three, has checkboxes counting donations in amounts from $200, to $300, counting in amounts of $20.

These sections continue, proceeding up to $1,000.00.

On reaching $1,000.00, A blank text box with a dollar sign next to it is contained in its' own section. Nothing else is contained in this last section, except this blank checkbox with a dollar sign next to it. The caption next to this blank checkbox says something like: "Select the amount you wish to donate, and type this amount into this donation box."

This final offer to donate allows visitors to choose their own donation amounts, down to the last penny.

I figure, this provides every visitor with all possible donation options, does not limit the amount of money donated, does not make little of any donation amount, and does not demand any set donation amount. This allows the visitor to choose.

Example, some visitors may be turned off by a request for $200, while other visitors can easily donate $200 and are turned off by a request for $20. The best strategy for gaining donations is to allow the visitor to choose their donation amount, by offering all possible donations choices.

I'd like to know wiki can continue, that wiki will never end.

Where money gone didn't explained at all in detail

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en#Where_does_my_money_go.3F

"To people and technology. Even though Wikipedia and its sister projects are one of the top five most-visited websites in the world, we employ fewer than 35 people; see our staff overview. Roughly half work on technology, a small team supports our public outreach and volunteer cultivation activities, and the remaining staff work in fundraising and administration. In addition, your support helps to pay for the technology infrastructure (servers and bandwidth) that keep Wikipedia running and growing. Fundamentally, the Wikimedia Foundation exists to support and grow the enormous network of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia and its sister projects -- more than 100,000 people around the world."

This is no explanation. It says it goes to technology and people. How much of it goes to people. How much it goes to technology. As detail, how much goes to server maintenance, buying new hardware, software, how much it goes to bandwidth etc. Explain and link in detail so we can have a clue. I know there were some reports for that. Also if the main issue is bandwidth there are various precautions wikipedia can take, to limit bandwidth and effort waste. Where or how we can share our opinions, and why I am not aware wikipedia ever asked opinions of its users in top banners like that. Kasaalan 11:37, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jimmy Wales - suggestion for "Increasing Donations"

Hey Jimmy -

I saw the Wiki (U.S.) Main Page now display some sample Donor info in the upper right... (donor name, date, amount)

I'd like to suggest an idea to GET MORE DONATIONS!

- Display a "scrolling panel" in that same space... The movement will attract more eyeballs AND will give a sense of real activity... suggesting to some they should join in on the activity (of donating now).

- Fine tuning the concept, I would skip the date and roll the display with -

       * Today's Donations *

         Jack L.       $10
         Jane D.       $19
         Pierre T.     $25

         - Always have 3-5 names on the screen...  
         - either scroll and pause, or scroll continuously
         - PLEASE do not use full names...  It is disconcerting that one's name might be displayed
              without their permission...  and it adds nothing.

Well - hope this makes it to your desk for consideration...

Thanks and Best Regards.

Donald Lagasse

Spelling mistake at Support Wikipedia/fr

There is a spelling mistake at [2]. "Soutenez Wikipédia, faîtes un don" should be "Soutenez Wikipédia, faites un don". Thank you.

hi guys im a person that really feels hand tigh , when it comes to see you needing help, and i cannot offer it,i dont know , may be you can explain it to me , i dont get to see my country's money , in my country we use RD$ pesos dominicanos.from Dominican Republic.it is equivalent 36.00RD$ pesos = 1US$Dollar. if you put that, many people from my country will help you please help us to help you guys .. you guys deserve it you'll the best.

Donations Page

I donated today. I was suprised to see I could not pay in INR (Indian Rupee)! Not all people who'd like to contribute will have an International Card. Might be worth correcting. Keep up the great work! Thanks! .. Nana.

Excessive Fundraising????

Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org) shows you guys having a 3,531,771 excess in funds from last year(http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11212). Why then are you fund-raising so aggressively? I understand the concept of keeping a stock in the bank, but the fund-raising increases each year far exceed the increases in spending... -Talkstosocks 18:45, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fundraising idea

Hi there,

I have an idea that might help offset costs: Create an "Adopt this page" campaign.

People would support a specific page, for example, pay 10$ for the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis.

They wouldn't have to maintain the page, and it would be still up to Wiki to keep the page around or not, but at least the user could show endorsement to the things he/she cares the most.

Take care,

Bad link

Hello. There's a bad link for the English language Wikipedia EDP on the wmf:Resolution:Licensing policy page. The EDP is listed at Non-free content as en:Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria, a page which describes itself as the EDP. The en:Wikipedia:Non-free content which the resolution currently links to is a "guideline". Could someone please retcon the announcement? Angus McLellan (enwiki talk) 01:10, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Development of on line payment of taxes

     The site you have devlopped is fine.You have to improve the site 
     for payment of taxes like Property tax,Taptax etc
     Details of on going works with detaild specifications
     Complints : So as to give complaints on spoild roads.Sanitary
     problems etc.For example the A.V.A.Road ,and The Nehru road are 
     badly damaged which are importent and main connecting roads
     to Rajahmundry

P.Satyanarayana Murty.Rajahmundry C.12.Sai Towers .A.V.A.Road Email adres psnmurtylakshmi@yahoo.com

Thanks

Thanks a lot for the prompt update of Jimmy's appeal in Macedonian! :) --B. Jankuloski 01:33, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

donation

I tried to donate via my VISA card and it was rejected. I use this card every day. The problem is with your site, not my credit card. Robert Humphrey

Just because we are accessing the website from The Netherlands, does not mean that we speak Dutch adn that we want to read the Jimmy Wales personal appeal in Dutch. PLEASE MAKE IT AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH.

Thank you.

I agree with this strongly. It is typical of amateurish websites, and very irritating to many surfers, to assume that because you live in a particular country you must speak a particular language. Wikipedia is an international resource; all the Wikipedias have contributors from many countries, and the Wikimedia Foundation should know better than to make this stupid, hypernationalistic assumption, especially because it could alienate potential contributors. The banners, in more and more languages, are fine: but I wasn't on the French Wikipedia and my mother tongue isn't French, so why was I taken to Jimmy Wales's message in French? Andrew Dalby 17:23, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Eine Bitte an den Wikipedia-Gründers Jimmy Wales

> "Für sieben Millionen Euro pro Jahr und mit weniger als 35 Angestellten..."

Über 17.000 EUR pro Monat...!?

Den Job könnte ich gebrauchen. Wo kann ich mich bewerben???

(-;

Ja, und natürlich kostet es nichts zu kaufen und zu erhalten genug Server auf mehr als 131 Anfragen pro Sekunde Seite jeden Tag dienen, den ganzen Tag... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:23, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So um 25 Euro pro Monat; bspw. für Paket PowerPlusXL - http://www.strato.de/hosting/index.html -

once again im from Dominican Republic

once again im from dominican republic , i most people here would like to cooperate with you guys , but we cant , just for the simple reason that we don't see our money type displayed on the banner to make donations, we use RD$ means dominicans pesos .. if you put that i assure you a lot of peole here will donate .. and the same thing for other country's money type like ( florines, pesetas, francs) etc.. thanks...

hi

The lead-in to this says, "The comments you enter here are publicly viewable, editable, and deletable."

I can understand the first one, "viewable", and I can understand "editable", though less so... but "deletable"? Wouldn't that give everyone the power of veto over everyone else?

donation

Website wont accept my "other" donation of $15. Says to enter a "valid amount".

Hello and thanks for supporting Wikimedia projects! I think the issue here is that you're putting "$15" in the box when all you need is "15" (the dropdown box to the right specifies the currency). I'm sorry for the confusion and I hope this helps. Cbrown1023 talk 21:27, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Wales donation appeal...

Hi,

I would like to donate my page views to Wikipedia. Its time to consider banner ads on wikipedia. If it means that the ongoing survival of wikipedia, then I am happy to put up with a banner ad on the top of the page to help keep the site going. It would not stop me from using wikipedia, and I know it would help to ensure the ongoing survival of this valuable resource.

I know there would be howls of protest from die hard anit-advertising extremists, but the fact is one small banner ad at the top of the page is a small price to pay for the ongoing viability of this incredible resource, whilst ensuring its ongoing survival.

Hey, every other site on the web does it, I think people shouldn't be so precious and purist...

Cheers Mik.

Donations

I don't understand why you don't just accept advertising. That's what all the other sites do, including the New York Times. Is accepting advertising really so bad?? We don't mind.

Hi Jimmy, Great work. Can only donate time. Any interest?

Ken Marefat kenmarefat@ieee/org

Overzealous Administrators

Wikipedia seemed a good idea until overzealous ego driven administrator assistants began policing Wikipedia killing authentic sources. For me Wikipedia lost direction, which is a shame.

======================================================

In spite of the appeal for donations, I will not be contributing money because I think the Wikipedia has a serious flaw, one that could be fairly easily remedied - that is, the ease of anonymous comments. Anyone can change anything and, while the changes can be tracked, the method is not intuitive or easy.

I made an alteration to one article, correcting a detail which I happened to have personal knowledge about, and was surprised at how easy it was.

I think Wikipedia would be well served by following fairly simple precautions. Have someone register and give an email, verify the email, and have a notation stating when an entry has been modified by a member of the community. In my mind, privacy is not involved - if you want to post an idea publicly, you should be willing to say who you are.

Respectfully,

Zvi the Fiddler fiddlerzvi@att.net

Korean Appeal page has an error.

I'm the one of the contributors for translating Korean Appeal page, but after publishing, I found an error on the 'picture-text' of published Appeal page source. It has weird meaning and translated wrong from original version. As I don't have an account for Wikifoundation, I request someone who has one to modify the 'picture-text' as same as the sentence on Korean appeal page, "지구상의 모든 사람들이 인류의 모든 지식에 자유롭게 접근할 수 있는 세상을 상상해 보십시요.". --Naturehead 04:42, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I live in Singapore, and in-line with several other comments, I was not able to donate as my VISA card, which I use every day was not accepted. Administrators need to consider people living not in the US. It is even impossible to enter addresses of many countries within the format provided by Wikipedia. Addresses in many countries, Japan for example, are not done by street and number.

Done (I fixed it a little). Thank you. Kwj2772 (msg) 12:56, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(It should end with '-오.') Kwj2772 (msg) 03:52, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much and Thanks again for your modification. :D --Naturehead 10:04, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Donations

You guys are asking for donations

I will gladly donate when I get a new job, till then your site helps me with my education and seeking work

Thank you for your most excellent resource material

My highest regards

Dick Woods

good

Template

In the template "DonateLang", the word language is misspelled: {{#langauge:ta}}. Stephen G. Brown 04:19, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

typo

There is a grammatical mistake in the Hungarian Appeal in the sentence: "Ha ma hasznosnak találod, képzeld el mi mindent elérhetünk együtt 5, 10, 20 év alatt." Please replace "elérhetünk" with "érhetünk el" as in this case the "el" verb prefix should take its place after the actual verb. - Xbspiro 04:40, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Diversity...

I was considering donating to Wikipedia after seeing that it had come to personal appeals from Mr. Wales, then I looked at the foundations staff, board, and advisory board and as a non-white, non-Asian, person I really did not feel included. I find it hard to believe you guys couldn't find one token brownish person to be apart of the movement. However, I seriously doubt you bothered to look. I'm not implying you should just find some under-qualified minority just to put on the site, I just think that if your goal is to share all human knowledge with everyone you are going to need everyone's help at all levels. Maybe that just me though.

Donations

I cannot send you a donation even though -- for the most part -- the information you provide is both up to date and useful. Recently I have been trying to become more informed about the issue of global warming. I find many articles on the pro side but few if any on the upside of warming or even questioning the science. For example, I heard via other sources about a period a few hundred years ago when temperatures were warmer than recent years. This was referred to as the 'Medieval warming period' and appears to be rather well documented. There is no mention of this on your site. It would appear that there is not balanced info on this topic and it begs the question of bias on other issues of public concern.

Until there is more balance on this issue there will be no financial support from me

Spencer in Canada

WHY I WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO WIKIPEDIA

Mannie De Saxe, PO Box 1675, Preston South, Vic 3072, Australia Some time ago I wished to place an article in Wikipedia on the Sydney Park AIDS Memorial Groves of which I am the originator and co-coordinator. My entry was refused by Wikipedia on the grounds that I was not able to provide confirmation of my source material. As I was the founder of the project I did not have confirmation sources available but Wikipedia would have been able to confirm the information from such sources as Sydney City Council which administers Sydney Park if they had bothered to try. However they chose to refuse my entry and I chose to decide that I would have nothing more to do with Wikipedia. I was mortally offended that an open-source site would treat me in this manner. The only reason I saw the appeal for funding support was because a friend sent us information about a particular item in Wikipedia. I make it a matter of principle not to look at anything there otherwise. Mannie De Saxe, Lesbian and Gay Solidarity, Melbourne, Australia, SPAIDS co-coordinator.

/* Comment in spanish about donations:

sería interesante que aunque wikipedia no sea comercial pagara regalias por consultar en sistema multinivel para autofinanciarse It would be interesting to develop a multilevel system for auto-financing wikipedia, for example if I sign in with wikipedia I could participate in global sweepstakes for funds rising

my address: gmolanoruiz2000@gmail.com

/

Arabic Wikipedia

When ever I read one of Wikipedia pages that are written in Arabic, its totally unrealistic with very few scientific details, and totally away from facts that we need and as if it is directed for a retarded to read...why

On the other hand if it's written in English or French, it will be totally different, clear info wide expansion in details and facts

just went through the page of the CROW bird, in Arabic all it speaks about is a myth, an old Semitic myth, about Adam and so (NO FACTS)in the English page its is exposing full info about that bird in details as well explaining some historical facts and mythology

So what is wikipedia all about, transferring the information based on facts and international point of view or giving the info based on the local culture of the recipient.....Wikipedia should be unifying the knowledge of all the recipients what ever the language the speak or how they think...it should be exposing every one to the knowledge of others.

I loved wikipedia, but what I can see now is that it's just a tool to keep this world uglier, by keeping the advantage to the English speaking and dis considering the people that need the knowledge most, and I can imagine how it would be for other cultures that speak minor languages......

If you are not capable of publishing the truth...then English will be more than enough...other wise I will consider it just for the donations pool to be a bit larger

Of course I'm not logged in, Your system won't let me!

You have got a major factual error in your article abour Lord Monckton. It says he is not a member of the British House of Lords. He is. There is NO edit tab at the top of the page. There is no way to correct this mistake. I have tried over and over again either to log in to my old account or to create a new one. Your system will not let me do so. It throttles every attempt. It won't e-mail me my old password, It won't allow me to select a new username or password. It blocks everything. It seems designed only to waste people's tiome and circulate unreliable information. WILL YOU PLEASE STOP RUNNING IT THIS WAY. I think you are doing a lot of harm by circulating misinformation and then preventing people from editing it.

Note: He does not appear on the official list of members. --Philippe 00:15, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

just read appeal by mr jimmy wales.

i trust the humanity still has chance to redeem itself. wikipedia is giving us a chance.

please make it easier to donate from india, in indian currency

wandurkar@gmail.com

Jargon on Values page.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Values I've just answered a question on what "fork thanks to freely available dumps" means. Please link to w:Fork (software development) and w:Dump_(program). -- Jeandré, 2009-12-19t18:45z

I added a link to both, but instead I linked dumps to http://dumps.wikimedia.org/. Thanks for the note, Jeandré. Cbrown1023 talk 19:03, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fundraising

I dont mind giving. I'd like to see visually how much you are raising. Simple target vs running total would be fine Thanks

--

My donation was refused (VISA card, trying to send CZK) - and it is for the second time I tried. But because Wikipedia is so damn useful and goog, I will persist :-) Going to send money via bank transfer - BUT PLEASE CHECK THE DONATION SERVICE, YOU MIGHT BE LOOSING DONNORS!

Try giving through this: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/DonateNonJS/en

Jimmy Wales

MARRYYY MEEEEE. YOUZ A BALLLA.

automatically assuming i am Russian?

Good day Jimmy Page ( or whoever will read this comment)

while i was checking out a link on WIKI that was recommended i saw the plea of Jimmy on top of the page (in English). so i clicked it on and wanted to see what it is all about. And got to a russian language story... which i will not read. Not because i can not but out of principle. What is WIKI checking and how? I know myself i am in Russia and russian is the national language. But if i am in China, will i get a chinese language reply. MY mac is set up for english language and it is stated as such. So if WIKI is checking and tracking my computer it should know that. Or is it, because the lead comes from Russia, it is ASSUMED automatically that it must be a Russian on the other end. Not good enough.... with friendly greetings, Benedikt Morak Austrian Executive Chef, happens to work in Russia, but was also working in China,Indonesia,Georgia and Greece where i did NOT know the local language...

Jimmy Whales personal appeal

Dear Wiki staff,

Please create a button to make Jimmy's appeal facebook postable.

Thank you, India

Just say no to reloigiosity

Jimmy,

For the last three years I've donated to the Wikipedia cause -- not a whole lot, as I am just a poor web-cartoonist, but I like the vision that Wikipedia represents.

But I won't be donating this year. And maybe not ever again. Why? Because you have allowed this otherwise wonderful site to be taken over as a propaganda arm for one side of the Global Warming/Climate Change controversy, thanks to your site administrator William Connolley. Balanced articles explaining all sides of this issue would be welcome, but Connolley has systematically dumped or edited-out anything that challenges his personal orthodoxy.

We need seekers of truth in charge of something like this, not true-believers.

When I hear that Connolley has been dumped, and see a good-faith effort to restore fairness and balance to Wikipedia articles, then I'll once again kick in what I can, and advise my friends who feel similarly to do the same thing.

--Scott Bieser

If you're saying this only because you've read the blog post know that it contains hyperbole and plain inaccuracies. Connolley isn't even an administrator any more, and he wasn't running again recently, either. Beyond that, I think arbitration tackled any other issues. -- Menti fisto 17:53, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Imagine a world where all information is fully controlled, censored and distributed by left-wing propagandists. Donate to Jimmy and his censors and make it a reality.

Too bad Wikipedia has such a liberal bias. I just can't rely on Wikipedia content anymore. Is George Saros part owner?

what language is this?

Donations

When I first read the appeal for donations I went to the entry for the current U.S. president to confirm that the Orwellian treatment of that subject is still in force. It clearly is, so at this point I would be no more likely to donate to Wiki than I would be to donate to the Democratic National Committee.

Donations from India

Hi,

Please enable a mechanism for donations in Indian currency. I would like to think a lot of Indians would love to donate and like one donor has already suggested here... not all will have the facility to pay in USD.

Thanks

Buttons unavailable

Good Morning: When I tried to download the buttons at the bottom on the CEO's appeal, I got the message that "This Wiki does not exist" - very disappointing. Please rectify ASAP! Best wishes for continued success!

Sorry, but which buttons are you talking about? What's the URL of the page where you are running into this issue? Also, Jimmy Wales is our founder and one of our board members, he's not our CEO. ;-) Our Executive Director, however, is Sue Gardner. Cbrown1023 talk 20:43, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I won't donate because Wikipedia is not "for everyone" any more

I won't donate to Wikipedia because it is no longer a friendly place that "anyone can edit", as whatever you do, even if it is non-controversial, will be picked up by some petty pedant. You have to spend a very high proportion of your time on it to understand the rules that the obsessives have created.

And certain viewpoints are allowed to dominate and control. For instance it is completely impossible to get the article "Creation Science" changed so that it does not insult a large proportion of Americans, for instance, by accusing them of attempting to "disprove accepted scientific facts". Many of the people who are promoting Creation Science have degrees and jobs in scientific disciplines. They are not all unqualfied nutters.--PeterR 16:54, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Foundation and Facebook

I would have liked to share the personal appeal from founder Jimmy Wales on my Facebook NewsFeed, but the URL is too long. You might want to create a SHARE button from that page in case people would like to help raise money to keep the Wikimedia vision alive.

donation

I am from India. Unable to make a donation because you accept credit cards only. In India only a fraction have credit cards. Pls open an office in India, making local money orders acceptable. That way, myself and more like me will be happy to contribute.

Donations

I tried to give a $50 donation but I don't want to give a lot of personal information to be used for further solicitations or to be shared with others. Too bad. Also, I don't agree to have my contribution share with other commercial interests. The stuff about re-users I don't understand and therefore don't agree to. Why not keep it simple?

B.

Incorrect Benefactors link

The link to "foundations" at the end of this section of the FAQ currently leads to en:Benefactors, but it should lead to Donate/Benefactors/en. Quiddity 11:38, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Should be done, thanks! Cbrown1023 talk 20:45, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

About Donations to your websites--From INDIA

Respected Sir,

First let me thank you for your great efforts in providing all of us "Wikipedia", indeed an Ocean of Knowledge.

Now about donations, I want to give some advice.

I am from India and I genuinely want to help you with some donations of my capacity. But the problem comes in PAYING you. In INDIA unlike AMERICA or Europe, we don't use Credit cards so extensively. Although we do have these facilities here, and Net-Banking is becoming more and more popular these days, but still Credit cards have a back seat.

Actually you have given many options like Direct Deposits, Check deposits, even Mobile giving. But for donating through these ways, a person has to take some pain in donating you (generally people feel proud while donating not responsible ),moreover all addresses/ facilities are located in US and Europe.

So, if you could tie-up with some Indian-banks or setup some branch for Check deposits, I guess you will be able to generate more funds to run this website successfully even better.

I wish, you will take my advise in only positive way.

Thanks for your patience reading. :-)

Anand an admirer of Wikipedia

Donations to wikipedia

I am sad to note that India is not represented ET ALL either in the donations by denoting the Indian Rupee nor by any area representative!

It is irony then:

What if someone from India wants to donate? He/She cannot as you do not seem to recognize the fact that 1/3 population of the world is there.

A person from 'neglected' part of the Wikipedia world!

Alternative to Donations

While it may seem noble to exclude ads from the site, I'm sure a ton of your users (like this one) could really care less, and would be much more likely to accept ads on the site than to make a donation. Why not allow users to make that selection which you could save for them via cookie? Cookied users see ads, non-cookied users see a persistent option to donate or see ads. Just my penny and a half.

please allow searches for donor names

with captcha

regards, a proud and curious donor

Main

Feedback on wikimediafoundation.org pages

Donation replacement idea

Grammatical error at Support Wikipedia/en

More of a problem...

Link from - http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en

Giant sitenotice on top of Dutch Wikipedia

DISPLAYTITLE

Support buttons

Hey, I don't think that I need an account BUT

Template:2009/Donate-banner/en

Link Update for Canada/US Tax Treaty

Please do not change the looks of your website

Re: Donations Needed

Raising Funds

Funding - attracting donations

Support page error

Fundraiser - Dutch version - spelling mistake

Donations

Fact #4: [...] the sum of all knowledge.

Donations online - information transmission security?

Donations - transaction declined

Donations - Donations via PayPal direct debit not accepted

Wikipedia is getting a rep

Include Google Checkout as well for accepting donations

Donations:

Where money gone didn't explained at all in detail

Jimmy Wales - suggestion for "Increasing Donations"

Spelling mistake at Support Wikipedia/fr

Donations Page

Excessive Fundraising????

Fundraising idea

Bad link

Regarding Development of on line payment of taxes

Thanks

donation

Eine Bitte an den Wikipedia-Gründers Jimmy Wales

once again im from Dominican Republic

donation

Jim Wales donation appeal...

Donations

Overzealous Administrators

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Korean Appeal page has an error.

Donations

Template

typo

Diversity...

Donations

WHY I WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO WIKIPEDIA

Arabic Wikipedia

Of course I'm not logged in, Your system won't let me!

Jargon on Values page.

Fundraising

Jimmy Wales

automatically assuming i am Russian?

Jimmy Whales personal appeal

Just say no to reloigiosity

Donations

Donations from India

Buttons unavailable

I won't donate because Wikipedia is not "for everyone" any more

Foundation and Facebook

donation

Donations

Incorrect Benefactors link

About Donations to your websites--From INDIA

Donations to wikipedia

Alternative to Donations

please allow searches for donor names