Rachel diCerbo wrote:
>... as the new Director of Community Engagement in Product
> I'm looking forward to getting to know you and others within
> this community.
Welcome, Rachel! I am so glad they hired you to do [1].
which as I'm sure most people reading this know, is the engineering
effort wi
Hi Lisa,
I admit I am not an expert in U.S. tax law, so I could be entirely
misinterpreting it. But my read of the IRS instructions are that donors
who donate more than $5000 in one year must be reported, *except* that
any single donation of less than $1000 may be discounted when
calculating
Thanks for your delicate words everyone and thanks a million to Carlos for his
support.
I hope we can serve and support the Wiki community and the wiki movement
everywhere, especially in Egypt.
Samir,
Member and co-founder of Egypt Wikimedians user group.
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Hi Lisa,
Thank you for the explanation. Can you post that in the blog entry and on
the donation page? I understand how calculating annual limits might be more
trouble than it's worth from WMF's point of view.
Thanks,
Pine
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Lisa Gruwell
wrote:
> Hi Pine-
>
> The t
Hi Pine-
The threshold is an aggregate limit in a calendar year. If we were to
limit the donation amount to under $5000, a person could give several
donations that totaled over $5000 in a single year (which happens) and then
we would not be compliance. Instead of trying to create a spike for eve
Hi there,
We've scheduled the August and September IRC office hours to discuss
VisualEditor, to be held on Thursday 14 August at 900 UTC and on Thursday
18 September at 1600 UTC, and we hope you'll join us. Please see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for time conversions and
more
Heh. If this discussion gets too technical we can move it off-list. At the
moment if Fundraising just wants to say "we'll work on this for future
improvenents to the Bitcoin donation system" and posting that statement in
the blog entry and the donation screen would be ok IMO.
I am rarely satisfied
Sure -- I think it's a perfectly legitimate question to ask, and reasonable
discussion to have. It just appeared to me that you were expecting a
detailed explanation from the chief revenue officer, which didn't seem like
a reasonable expectation. Maybe I was wrong though. If others want to use
this
In the crowdsourced world, I like to think that we evaluate ideas and
programs based on their merits rather than who makes a decision. I grant
that some heirarchy is good and necessary, and in this case the heirarchy
made a reasoned decision to include Bitcoin in the donation options, and
did so in
Pine, I think Lisa already answered your question -- it's complicated. It's
possible (based on my limited knowledge, anyway) that what you suggest is
possible; but she never said it was impossible. She said it was the safest
approach, given a complicated scenario. This is her professional expertise
2014-07-30 19:16 GMT+02:00 Tonmoy Khan :
> That's a great news! Congratulations to WM User Group China.
Wow! Great news!
Cristian
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Hi Lisa,
Hm, that is different from my understanding of the IRC. You are required to
offer a receipt, not to actually send one if the donor declines, right?
Then you could have a checkbox to disable personal info and the receipt.
You could also enable anonymous donations under $5000 or whatever th
As Andrew said, it is complicated. We decided that asking for the
information was the safest approach and best enables to comply with U.S.
laws as well as laws in other countries. For example, we are required to
send a receipt for tax purposes to U.S. donors who give over a certain
amount and we
Nonprofits in the US are only required to report major donors AFAIK.
Bitcoins aren't assets with more complicated transfer rules like real
estate or stock shares. Simple property donations like a can of food for a
food bank don't require identification info.
Pine
On Jul 30, 2014 1:01 PM, "Andrew G
Hi Pine,
The IRS link includes the note that:
"A payment made using virtual currency is subject to information
reporting to the same extent as any other payment made in property."
- no expert, but I suspect this is the explanation. Because the IRS
treat bitcoin as "property" (like, eg, shares) r
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Pine W wrote:
> There is a post on the blog saying that bitcoin is accepted but there are
> several questions about why WMF is asking for contact info. Is that an IRS
> requirement? Might want to post the reason in the blog entry. AFAIK with
> the nonprofits I do
There is a post on the blog saying that bitcoin is accepted but there are
several questions about why WMF is asking for contact info. Is that an IRS
requirement? Might want to post the reason in the blog entry. AFAIK with
the nonprofits I donate to none require personal info for small
contributions
Congrats Wikimedians from Egypt!
Patricio
2014-07-30 9:48 GMT-03:00 Subhashish Panigrahi :
> Congratulations everyone!
>
> Best!
> Subha
>
> > On 30-Jul-2014, at 1:58 pm, Nurunnaby Chowdhury wrote:
> >
> > Congratulation & welcome.
> >
> > --
> > Nurunna
Congrats to our friends in China! Well done!
Patricio
2014-07-30 15:04 GMT-03:00 Enock Seth Nyamador :
> Congrats China.
>
> Best,
> - Enock
> On Jul 30, 2014 5:38 PM, "Ted Chien" wrote:
>
> > Congratulations to user group in China! You have my best wishes!
Congrats China.
Best,
- Enock
On Jul 30, 2014 5:38 PM, "Ted Chien" wrote:
> Congratulations to user group in China! You have my best wishes!! ;)
>
> Regards,
> Ted Chien
> Chair, Wikimedia Taiwan
> http://about.me/htchien
> -- Sent from my Nexus 5
> 2014/7/31 上午12:18 於 "Carlos M. Colina" 寫道:
>
Congratulations to user group in China! You have my best wishes!! ;)
Regards,
Ted Chien
Chair, Wikimedia Taiwan
http://about.me/htchien
-- Sent from my Nexus 5
2014/7/31 上午12:18 於 "Carlos M. Colina" ��道:
> Dear all,
>
> It is an honor to announce that the Affiliations Committee has resolved
> [1
Well done to our friends in China!
On 30 July 2014 18:21, Nasir Khan wrote:
> Great news, congrats to everyone who were involved in this success.
>
> --
> Nasir Khan
> On Jul 30, 2014 11:16 PM, "Tonmoy Khan" wrote:
>
> > That's a great news! Congratulations to WM User Group China.
> >
> > Chee
Great news, congrats to everyone who were involved in this success.
--
Nasir Khan
On Jul 30, 2014 11:16 PM, "Tonmoy Khan" wrote:
> That's a great news! Congratulations to WM User Group China.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ali Haidar Khan
> FDC Member
> Treasurer, Wikimedia Bangladesh
> On Jul 30, 2014 10:18 PM
Very excited about this! Congrats!
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Tonmoy Khan wrote:
> That's a great news! Congratulations to WM User Group China.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ali Haidar Khan
> FDC Member
> Treasurer, Wikimedia Bangladesh
> On Jul 30, 2014 10:18 PM, "Carlos M. Colina"
> wrote:
>
> > Dea
That's a great news! Congratulations to WM User Group China.
Cheers
Ali Haidar Khan
FDC Member
Treasurer, Wikimedia Bangladesh
On Jul 30, 2014 10:18 PM, "Carlos M. Colina" wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> It is an honor to announce that the Affiliations Committee has resolved
> [1] recognizing the Wikime
Dear all,
It is an honor to announce that the Affiliations Committee has resolved
[1] recognizing the Wikimedia User Group China as a Wikimedia User
Group; their main focus areas are getting more chinese people know and
use Wikipedia, encouraging people to become contributors to the
different
Congratulations everyone!
Best!
Subha
> On 30-Jul-2014, at 1:58 pm, Nurunnaby Chowdhury wrote:
>
> Congratulation & welcome.
>
> --
> Nurunnaby Chowdhury | @nhasive
> Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia
> Member, IEG, WMF
>
> On Tuesday, July 29, 2014, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
> wrote:
>
>> Congr
Yes, exactly.
I have found another entry points instead of this:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Grants%3AStart&action=page&filter=&language=it
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> Not all parts of t
Not all parts of the page were prepared for translation. For example, the
"Increasing the quantity, quality, diversity, and reach of free knowledge"
part is in the {{Grants:Start/Header}} template, which isn't translated.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpre
May someone help me?
I am translating this page in Italian:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start
The translation tool says that the page is translated 100% but I don't see
all paragraphs when translating, so the page is a mix of English and
Italian because the tool miss some of them.
ht
Congratulation & welcome.
--
Nurunnaby Chowdhury | @nhasive
Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia
Member, IEG, WMF
On Tuesday, July 29, 2014, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
wrote:
> Congrats all.
> Welcome Egypt.
> :)
> On Jul 29, 2014 9:59 PM, "Ivan Martínez" >
> wrote:
>
> > Welcome Egypt!
> >
> >
> > 2014
The Wikimedia Research Hackathon on August 6 and 7 takes place parallel to
the general Wikimania Hackathon in London.
Wikimania Hackathon information is available at
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
Research Hackathon information is available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/R
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