Hoi,
Do not be daft. The Wikimedia Foundation centralised its fundraising. It
said that it would do a better job. Seen from a central periphery model, it
probably does, However seen from the Netherlands it is rather silly.,
Pooh poohing this away with "you can donate time as well" is fine when you
are in the centre.
Recently chapters were told to fundraise. There is a point to that but it
is also a specific skill. It is not smart to develop such skills and not
make use of it in what is effectively the biggest fundraiser for a chapter.
We are discussing,yet again, the text and approach of the fundraiser and we
are yet again going through the same moves. We are a movement and the
Wikimedia Foundation is not it. It does not optimise the opportunities for
all of us. In the Netherlands, I would not be surprised when the amount of
fundraising could at least double with local involvement.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 30 November 2014 at 03:36, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> Wikimedia always accepts donations. If the Wikimedia Foundation can't
> figure out a way to easily accept monetary donations from Dutch
> Wikimedians, why not simply focus efforts on non-monetary donations?
> Edits and other wiki contributions are far more valuable, in my opinion.
> Wikimedia Nederland seems to already be doing a lot of great work
> encouraging these types of contributions (e.g., Wiki Loves [X]). :-)
>
> For the past few years I've seen it as fairly low-hanging fruit to create
> a tongue-in-cheek "don't donate to Wikipedia" or "donate time instead" or
> similar campaign. Or even register "DonateToWikipedia.org" and send
> visitors to the edit form of an article that needs love. When people ask
> me in real-life about donating to Wikipedia (nobody knows what Wikimedia
> is), I typically suggest making a few edits instead of donating money
> directly. I don't think the Wikimedia Foundation really needs the money
> and I think volunteer time is worth significantly more.
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
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