User talk:WietseVermeire

Good day to anyone who reads this, I have been thinking about ways for Wikipedia to make some money. The best way I found was to make some kind of calendar on which you get some facts each day. You could sell them via bookstores and emarkets. I do hope there is an admin who will read this, since I couldn't find another way to contact admins to bring some ideas. --WietseVermeire (talk) 22:39, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi WietseVermeire, and thanks for joining Wikipedia. First, as a new user, you're probably not aware that administrators aren't actually the kind of people who would make such decisons. Admins are basically just regular users who can do a little more, like block users or protect pages. The people in charge of fundraising are the Wikimedia Foundation, a US non-profit organization. The Foundation lets users like you and I decide most of the actual content on the site, but they generally make most of the decisions about fundraising. Now, you could contact them; contact info for them is at . However, I will let you know that, while your idea is interesting, it's probably not one that they would pursue. For over ten years, the WMF has actually raised more money than it's needed simply through requesting donations. A variety of other fundraising proposals have been floated, but the simplicity of a donation system has always been preferred, both by the community and by the WMF.
 * However, nothing would stop a private individual/group from creating such an application and then donating the money to Wikipedia. Probably a good place to start discussing something like that is the Village pump (idea lab), which is a place to brainstorm any new ideas related to Wikipedia. Qwyrxian (talk) 23:06, 27 February 2013 (UTC)