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

Walter Vermeir wrote:
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> 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) 
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> 
> 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
> 

I think it's a very good way to resolve the problem,
but of course it's just a question of trust.

-- Looxix