Money gateway (Re: French and German versions of the fundraising page0

Daniel Mayer wrote:
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> (for example; some explanation needs to be added that at least in France and 
> Belgium new PayPal users need two credit cards and some type of access 
> number).
> 
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav) 

Because Paypall is not perfect and there is no Wikimedia bankaccount to 
do a "normal payment" by banktransfer (at least that is for me the most 
normal way) what about using a non-wikimedia bankaccount?

When ther is one widely know and respected member of a Wikipedia in the 
EU who can recieve money on his personal account and tranfers it to the 
paypall-account. It is not a very good system but it makes it much more 
easy to do a donation. In the EURO-zone payments can be done like a 
normal payment whit the IBAN accountnumber and BIC code.

A money gateway can also be setup on a local Wikipedia level. Every 
Wikipedia who it wants can select a trustworthy local member to recieve 
and send the money to wikimedia by paypall.

The benefit is that the donations can be done by use of a local national 
bankaccount. The system of EURO-zone money transfers whit the IBAN and 
BIC code is still very new and unknown by most users.

Much more change of a donation when it is easy to make a payment.

This is of course a very sensitif thing. To do this explicit 
autorisation must be given by "Wikimedia" to act like a money gateway 
for Wikimedia.


What do you think?

Walter