[Foundation-l] Lost money

Thu Apr 20 21:07:26 UTC 2006

Gregory Price wrote:
> On 4/19/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Walter Vermeir wrote:
>>> Is it really necessary to provide the normal donation form? Just put on
>>> the error-page itself ( PayPal: donation at wikipedia.org ) and if that is
>>> possible make from the email address a link to the website of PayPal to
>>> a page where the can donate to the Wikimedia Foundation.
>> Please see prior discussion on this subject.
> 
> This response would be more helpful if it gave some hint
> toward finding the prior discussion.

The same place it was before; on this list and/or wikitech-l.

> If to the static page we now serve for an error
> we added a static mention of donation at wikipedia.org (or donations@)
> and a static link to PayPal, it seems likely a good flow of money would open up.
> 
> So what am I missing (and Walter, and Anthony)?
> What's in that past discussion -- or where can it be found?

The problems with getting the error page have been resolved as of yesterday;
I've shown a sample error-page-with-form to mav and am reworking it per
feedback. Should be up soon.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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