Quote from: /dev/null on August 09, 2013, 09:17:22 AM

Stupid idea, waste of money.

People who spend their time to post wiki pages, make edits etc never get any money.

Wikimedia is already earning good enough money via donations for their operating cost.

The Wikimedia foundation is a nonprofit, they're not "earning" money.

Whether they're putting the donated money to good use can be assessed from their financial reports.

Quote from: Gaff on August 09, 2013, 09:23:26 AM

I am generally very supportive of this.

Quote from: Meni Rosenfeld on August 08, 2013, 07:09:46 PM

1. The amount that would be donated via Bitcoin is too small to be worth the trouble.

This objection is the easiest to refute; all we need is to demonstrate the quantitative aspects of our willingness to donate, and this is what this post is mostly about.

Can you ask them to qualify how much exactly makes it "worth the trouble"? Once you have a specific target amount, and escrow, I will willingly donate $50 to this cause.

I asked Jimmy in an informal context and he directed me to the fundraising team which makes the official decisions. I want to have something behind us before I make the first formal inquiry.

I don't think they should be bothered before we have at least $10K worth (100 BTC at current rates), preferably much more. Do you need them to quote a number? If so, why?

In the arrangement I suggested every treasurer acts as an "escrow". No qualifications are required other than being trustworthy. Do you mean there are some specific people you wish will be treasurers?