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Donating to Wikimedia in New Zealand

Doing end of year housekeeping (of the virtual kind) I've found the e-mail exhorting me to make a donation. Noting the modest size of my intended donation, I looked around for an efficient way to pay, not involving fees or currency conversions, and found that the only method I can pay in NZD is Paypal, which for me goes on my credit card. Investigating,

• I see on https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/en that in, f. ex., Fiji or the Cook Islands, I can make donations by credit card, eWallet, bank transfer, direct debit or internet banking but not New Zealand.
• https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Local_chapters shows no chapter in New Zealand
• after clicking on Donate, http://wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising Donate, if I change the currency to NZD the donate by credit card button disappears.

I searched the notice board archive for a discussion on these, and found none. Is there a reason there is no local chapter?

Jlittlenz (talk) 01:52, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

I've copied this message to meta:Talk:Fundraising 2011#New Zealand donations alongside other feedback about this year's fundraiser. As for a New Zealand chapter: to be honest, I'm not sure if it's sustainable given the size of our active community; the concept has however been discussed. sonia♫ 03:02, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, Sonia. There was a response:

Oops sorry, it seems that some of the countries in Oceania didn't get added to the Ways to Give page. I've put them up there now. The donation page for New Zealand is [1], where you can donate via Visa, Mastercard, Amex, PayPal or Bank Transfer.

To which I replied:

Thank you. Donate->other ways to give->Oceania->New Zealand->Donate by bank transfer gave me a page with a bank account number on it, and a reference to use. I had to be slightly persistent; three extra clicks. I presume there is a reason the main page donate buttons don't go the same page.Jlittlenz (talk) 03:30, 1 January 2012 (UTC)