Fund drives/2005/Q4 planning

The fourth quarter 2005 Wikimedia fundraising drive will be held from Friday 16 December to Friday 6 January. The purpose of this page is to serve as the central organizational point for this event.

To Do list

Technical

Needs

• Improved auto updates of at least PayPal data
• Auto-updated donation bar (translatable mock-up here

Wants

• Auto-updated PayPal data added to tracking page like that at wikimedia:Fund drives/2005/Q1
• A frame-like part added to every page on every wiki where a small auto-updated donation bar can be displayed. Only the "frame" would change for each update in order to not invalidate cache.
  • ability for that to be translated using templates on local wikis
• Ability to auto-generate PayPal reports like those at wikimedia:Fund drives/2005/Q1#Day-by-day PayPal totals

Translations

• /Translations
• Former translations... (need to be specified)

Other

• wikimedia:Finance_report needs to be updated. we really should provide information about the past before asking for money again
• wikimedia:Fundraising needs to be updated with
  • Links/info about our credit card processing service
  • Info on donations to local chapters: Yes, no, if yes, how etc.

Sign up!

If you are interested in helping, please sign up here.

• Daniel Mayer 03:27, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
• Sj
• --Ascánder 00:47, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Ral315 (en) 18:25, 5 December 2005 (UTC) (I can't translate, but I'd be willing to help with money, etc.)
• Brian New Zealand (english wikipedia) if you need a hand let me know, I will be willing to help. However Like Ral315, I can't help with translation.