Money gateway (Re: French and German versions of the

Walter Vermeir wrote:
>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?

Eh? Wikimedia has a bank account that accepts normal transfers. Not sure if 
that can be done across the pond though. I think it is a bad idea to have 
volunteers use their own bank accounts as "half way" houses. That is bad in 
organizational and accountability respects. 

Why not just make a direct payment to an official Wikimedia channel? PayPal 
does seem to be harder to set-up in certain nations and is only in English, 
so lets add another service that does the same thing but does not have the 
same disadvantages. Then that service could even feed a German (or whatever)  
Wikimedia bank account if that is deemed to be the best way to do things. In 
that case all we need is one person to set-up the bank account on behalf of 
the foundation. 

But setting up individual bank accounts in every nation is a non-starter, IMO. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)