Author: brad.j.molloy

Description:
I went to make a donation to Wikipedia by clicking on the "read more" button on the appeal ad from Jimmy Wales. It took me to the above URL, where I selected $5 from the preset amounts of $100, $50, $25 and $5. When I was redirected to Paypal to process payment, the amount had changed to $25! I clicked the browser's back button and then selected "Other" and manually typed in $5. This was then redirected to Paypal correctly and the transaction was completed successfully.

This bug annoyed me, due to it increasing my donation automatically by five times and I very nearly didn't make a donation at all. How many other people are becoming annoyed and not making donations due to this bug!

Also since I had never heard of Wikimedia before, I was confused and suspicious when Paypal reported that the payment went to Wikimedia not Wikipedia. I think you should use the website name of Wikipedia for payment processing, so not to cause confusion.

Please fix it asap, as Wikipedia is awesome and it's a shame small bugs can impact the reputation of a great site like Wikipedia. Remember people's preception is everything!

Version: unspecified
Severity: major
URL: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA061/AU?utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=20101103AUFS001&utm_source=20110103_JA058_AU&country_code=AU