On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Victor Grigas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a reason that we don't have a fundraising ask in the error / down > message? I think we used to. > > We did used to, I think it came down in the rename for a couple reasons: 1. People were always uncomfortable with it. It made it sound very strongly like we were down BECAUSE we didn't have enough money or similar and even led to some people worried (on social media and directly) that we had come down specifically to ask for donations). 2. We cant' send them through the normal donation flow, because the donation services may well be down too (and, in fact, often are. They were down for this downtime as well) . So we only gave them a paypal email address which ends up with random amounts of money being dumped into our account directly without any good ways for us to track where they came from or give the users a good donation experience. 3. I know in 2011 (after we made this change) we worked to stop random donations sent directly into our paypal email address because we weren't able to track it and they were starting to become problematic (100s of donations so small that we lost money on them for example). I don't know what the case now is though. James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
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