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Integrate crowdfunding into MediaWiki.org
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There is no easy way currently for supporting the development of MediaWiki features / extensions important for one's work. Integrating some kind of crowdfunding functionality into MediaWiki.org could enable more community-funded work.

Payment processing is scary and expecting a Wikimedia entity to do that is probably not feasible; also, building a decent crowdfunding site is hard. Fortunately, several opensource-focused crowdfunding sites exist (e.g. Liberapay, Open Collective, Bountysource, FreedomSponsors) and might be easily integrated - the functionality would not be terribly different from embedding an external RSS feed.

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Tgr created this task.Sep 2 2019, 12:28 PM
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Tgr added a comment.Nov 26 2019, 7:02 AM

Related: T239189: Consider adding FUNDING.yml to Wikimedia repos

Tuxayo subscribed.EditedApr 7 2020, 4:15 AM

A specific way to make this topic move forward is to throw funding or dev time (Ruby on Rails app) to Bountysource to finish[1] supporting Phabricator.

https://github.com/bountysource/core/issues/435
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1384856-add-support-for-phabricator

[1] it already can extract the name of a Phabricator ticket so there is definitely some code already there.

crossposted in T231814

Akuckartz triaged this task as Low priority.Jun 15 2020, 6:54 PM
Akuckartz moved this task from Needs Discussion to Needs Discussion on the MediaWiki-Stakeholders-Group board.
Akuckartz moved this task from Needs Discussion to Needs Volunteer (Development) on the MediaWiki-Stakeholders-Group board.Jun 15 2020, 6:58 PM
Akuckartz moved this task from Needs Volunteer (Development) to Needs Volunteer (Organisational) on the MediaWiki-Stakeholders-Group board.Jun 16 2020, 4:47 AM
Akuckartz mentioned this in T88265: Investigate sources to fund third party MediaWiki features.Jun 16 2020, 7:56 AM
Akuckartz subscribed.Jun 18 2020, 5:03 PM

Somewhat related: Investigate payment button for MWStake

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MarkAHershberger moved this task from Needs Volunteer (Organisational) to Doing on the MediaWiki-Stakeholders-Group board.Mar 2 2023, 4:46 PM
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Bawolff subscribed.Mar 2 2023, 6:35 PM

Money things can produce a lot of drama (People feeling like its spam, people feeling like the wrong people are receiving the money, people being jealous). While I'm not opposed to this, I'd ask that we precede carefully and be sure to be very open and transparent about any developments on this front.

Krabina added a comment.Feb 18 2024, 5:15 PM

just a side note (because it is only addressing a set of extensions based around SMW), but there is a crowdfunding now for Semantic MediaWiki using Open Collective Europe: https://opencollective.com/smw

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Mar 20 2024, 3:25 PM
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