[Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

This strikes me as yet another example of a WMF department forgetting to inform relevant stakeholders as soon as is appropriate, when decisions are made... In just the last few days, on this mailing list alone, there have been controversies on: - not telling chapters' treasurers that a team had be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Honorary degree for Wikipedia

Sounds good, thanks. I hope that Jimmy can attend the ceremony and visit WMNL. Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we mus

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Honorary degree for Wikipedia

Hi Pine, I do a lot of communications as ambassador for the Dutch community. I posted it already in the Dutch central discussion page and to the Dutch Wikimedia mailinglist. Greetings, Romaine 2014-11-17 23:52 GMT+01:00 Pine W : > Thanks for this news. I'm forwarding this email by bcc to a Dutc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Honorary degree for Wikipedia

Thanks for this news. I'm forwarding this email by bcc to a Dutch Wikimedian in the hope that they can forward this to the Dutch community. Pine Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, i

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Honorary degree for Wikipedia

Hi all, A local newspaper in the Netherlands had today as headline: Eredocteraat voor Timmermans en Wikipedia Translated: Honory degree for Timmermans and Wikipedia * Who is coming to Maastricht? * Can we organize a wikimeet that day in Maastricht? Romaine Rough translation of the newspaper

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

Op 17-11-14 om 20:28 schreef Lodewijk: you back to the credit card page) or even via regular bank transfer (using an IBAN) in the Netherlands. The donation page Historically the structure of bank account numbers are very different from country to country. And making transfers from one bank ac

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

Hi Patricia, Thanks for telling that the iDEAL will be back soon. I don't quite understand from your answer why you add the increased hurdle of emailing the team for the IBAN though. Am I overlooking something? Best, Lodewijk On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Patricia Pena wrote: > Hi Lodewijk

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

Hi Lodewijk, Currently IDEAL is temporarily down on our pages (it went into maintenance mode after our annual campaign), but should be back up soon :) We know the importance of this method for Dutch donors and have supported this option since we started fundraising in the NL. We also support offl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

Moreover, because fundraising reports are now so stingy, we can't even know the (per-country) effects of such decisions (cc fundraiser@), hence public accountability is impossible. * https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Fundraising/2013-14_Report&diff=10307365&oldid=10265366 * http

[Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

A while back now, the chapters were no longer allowed to fundraise, because the Wikimedia Foundation argued they would be better able to do this. At the time, this sounded somewhat reasonable. However, since then, there have been some disturbing developments - at least for Dutch donors. No longer