Numbers have been updated and corrected.
On Day 4 (Monday 21 February eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not
available in UTC) we made $6,287.52 (USD equivalent) through PayPal (no updates
available for other sources at this time). This is a decrease of -20.23% from
Day 3 but still does represent 18.15% of total funds collected so far
($34,648.06 ; only counting full days) and 8.38% of our goal ($75,000).
Remarkably, the rate of donations were not too adversely affected by the
downtime on Monday. Since the donation forms were not available during a large
part of the downtime, I can only guess that people remembered our PayPal
account name.
Donations did significantly increase soon after a Slashdot story about the
downtime was released (9:28PM, EST on Monday), forcing us to move the backup
donation page once the Slashdot Effect brought down the website hosting it
(http://wikisearch.org ; Sorry about that Angela).
NOTE: Pending transactions are also included in the below numbers (some of them
will likely turn out to be canceled)
Day 4 Day 3 comparison
Breakdown:
PayPal USD equiv USD equiv %change
AUD 29.68 $23.46 $330.90 -92.91%
CAD 750.35 $608.01 $238.93 154.48%
EUR 1410.77 $1,844.16 $2,755.66 -33.08%
GBP 315.19 $598.17 $696.89 -14.17%
JPY 8082 $76.61 $198.96 -61.50%
USD 3137.11 $3,137.11 $3,596.33 -12.77%
PayPal total: $6,287.52 $7,817.66 -19.57%
MoneyBookers
no data $64.00 -100.00%
TOTAL $6,287.52 $7,881.66 -20.23%
Grand totals so far (only counting complete days)
PayPal USD equiv %GrandTotal
AUD 1154.78 $912.85 2.63%
CAD 1685.27 $1,365.57 3.94%
EUR 9390.42 $12,275.16 35.43%
GBP 1637.47 $3,107.59 8.97%
JPY 90304 $855.99 2.47%
USD 15704.20 $15,704.20 45.32%
PayPal total: $34,221.37
Moneybookers:
$426.69 1.23%
GRAND TOTAL $34,648.06 100.00%
% toward goal 46.20%
For the most recent grand total and other details visit
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1
Some selected comments from Day 4:
See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_4
"I use Wiki - I have to pay for it !" by Immo Wetzel
"You have aided me countless times in my academic pursuits in math, science,
and the humanities. I can't thank you guys enough." by Laura Napolitano
"Wiki is the future!" by Christoph Burschka
"Wikipedia is in my opinion one of the most noble collective human endeavours
underway in the world today. Thank you so much for contributing to society with
your wonderful website. I love it and abide" by Matthew Barba
"Wikimedia Rocks!" by Jasmeet Singh
"I have always had a thirst for knowledge, and this project does more than
quench it. I am happy to donate." by Matthew Gluesenkamp
"Cheaper than cable" by Anonymous
Some of my favorites:
"Spread your Squids around the world. And use cached pages for logged in users
as well. Fix those and I'll be happy as a [[clam]]. Good job so far!!!" by Rami
Lehti
"A small price to pay for a project like this. But get a move on with all those
ambitious plans for paper versions. Most of the world doesn't have computers."
by Anonymous
"The Wikimedia Foundations is an acheivement of great proportions spreading the
one firm truth that information is truly free. Thank you." by Siddharth
Bhansali
"Help preserve the sum total of human knowledge for less than the price of two
Caramel Frappuccinos. Wikipedia is not only fat-free and carbohydrate-free, it
will never go straight to your hips!" by Jonet Greene
"Give Wiki a boost!!" by Kiminori Noma
Daniel Mayer,
Wikimedia CFO
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Our first quarter 2005 fund drive officially started at midnight UTC Friday
morning.
On Day 0 (Thursday eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not available in
UTC) we made $1,023.19 (USD) through PayPal (other sources unknown). As of
right now we have generated a total of $7,043.80 in the fund drive (PayPal
only; other sources unknown), so Day 1 looks like it will be big.
Some choice comments from Day 0:
See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_0
"Amazing. I've spent many many hours here over the last couple months learning
about our world. Please keep it up!" by Sean Vaughan
"I wanted to be the first" by Daniel Wool (hi Danny!)
"I have learned so much from this site. I used to be frustrated because I
couldn't read about things on sites like Encarta, but now I can and it's all
here." by Anonymous
"I absolutely love Wikipedia, I have never donated to anything before but I
gladly do to this!" by Anonymous
"WikiPeida rocks!" by David Ouziel
And my personal favorite:
"May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the underpants of your enemies"
by Christopher J Hutten Czaps
Daniel Mayer,
Wikimedia CFO
PS - there still is much translating work to do at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/Fundraising_pages
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> > That is a route you do not want to go. The fr:wikinews is controversial,
> > there has been a lot of agro about it being started in the first place.
> > The Wikinews project as a whole is not beta anymore so consequently the
> > French wikinews is not BETA either.
So when chinese wikinews opens, it won't be beta either, he...
I for one favor the beta-per-language discrimination - because you can *never* know the level of activity.
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Hi,
Can someone answer him ?
Subject: [Wikimediafr-l] donations
Date: Sunday 27 February 2005 06:49
From: Dean Rivando <deanrivando (at) yahoo . ca>
To: wikimediafr-l(a)wikimedia.org
Hi there,
I would like to donate, but I will only do so if I receive a tax credit in
Canada. Can you please advise me whether you have charitable status with the
Canada Customs and Revenue Agency and whether donations made in Canada are
tax deductible.
thanks,
Dean Rivando
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I consistently have trouble to access http://en.wikipedia.org today,
though I can slowly access http://wikipedia.org/ and
http://zh.wikipedia.org/. What is the problem?
Do we have server monitors for those machines? If not, I suggest to
use some third party service to monitor the server's uptime and
performance, like http://www.siteuptime.com or
http://www.elkmonitor.com/. I guess there are some free service
provider available.
We need to insure the uptime for major server, otherwise, we are going
to lose users.
--
Be good....
I've written a new, detailed report on the current state of the Wikinews
project. If you haven't kept up, or want to read my opinions on where we
are headed, the report is at:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Eloquence/State_of_the_Wiki
Comments are welcome.
All best,
Erik
Christiaan Briggs christiaan at last-straw.net:
:On 24 Feb 2005, at 6:49 pm, Rowan Collins wrote:
:> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:07:57 +1100, David Gerard
:> <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
:>> What Gerard actually did with the above edit was take this paragraph:
:> This is just a non-permanent diff links problem :) The edit in
:> question was unquestionably vandalism.
:> The edit you're looking at it is me trying to be helpful; the one
:> Christiaan posted (or meant to) was a revert of blanking the whole
:> page.
:Oh, thanks, I thought I was going nuts for a second there!
You're right - looking at the history, that would be disrupting to make a
point. This is probably not a helpful thing to do in a hot debate.
Is the present version sufficient for you? It's pretty much OK by me.
GerardM?
- d.
> I suggest editing MediaWiki:Tagline and putting the "beta" there. That
> might be done for any Wikinews editions which does not yet have a
> sufficient level of activity. This is better than defacing the logo, in
> my opinion.
Since there are no sysops on fr:, thus the sitenotice can't be changed, I suggest you do it :)
> One notable difference in Wikinews to other projects is that a quick
> glance at the frontpage gives you an impression of the level of
<snip>
Except you can't be sure people will go to the front page. But that's beside the point regarding the beta status.
> Regards,
>
> Erik
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Unless my Internet cache is totally wrong, the fr.wikinews logo is now the "official" wikinews one, without the beta. But considering how many edits there are on this language, i'd pretty much favor the big red "BETA" warning it used to have....
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On Day 2 (Saturday eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not available in
UTC) we made $9257.65 (USD equivalent) through PayPal (no updates available for
other sources at this time).
Day 2 Day 1 comparison
Breakdown:
USD equiv USD equiv %change
PayPal
AUD 326.13 256.80 247.27 + 3.85
CAD 211.78 172.00 271.58 -36.67
EUR 2354.98 3080.02 4464.75 -31.01
GBP 454.36 860.37 899.77 - 4.38
JPY 27182 257.80 269.00 - 4.16
USD 4888.47 4888.47 3424.63 +42.74
9257.65 9576.78 - 3.33
MoneyBookers
no data 362.69 -100
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Total 9257.65 9,939.47 -6.86
For the most recent grand total and other details visit
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1
Some selected comments from Day 2:
See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_2
"A wonderful resource, which has already become the Amazon of online
encyclopedias!" by Anonymous
"Wikipedia is what the internet was meant for: The building of a great
information network" by Industrial Hypertext
"For one of the most exciting enterprises of mankind!" by Renato Cintra
"Wikipedia is my favorite site and an extreme benefit to the world" by Seth
Weisberg
"Wikimedia captures the true spirit of the Internet, and is priceless for
that." by Michael Herring
"Probably the most useful website in the world (and proof that wiki's work).
Well done!" by Mr D A Whiting
"Continue doing your great work, I use wikipedia as much as google" by
MetaFilter
"This model of information transfer will change humanity." by Anonymous
"What can I say? I owe half of what I know to the Wikipedia! Keep up the good
work." by Jonathan Grose
Some of my favorites:
"Wikipedia is dangerous. It is free, it is fair, it is informative, it is fun.
Nothing beats it. Nothing even comes close." by Christopher Hutten-Czapski
"much much less annoying than an NPR fundraising drive, which just makes me
reach for a blank check to stuff into my ears" by Anonymous
"Because knowledge may be free, but servers are not." by Anonymous
"Free knowledge is even better than free porn." by Steve Guy
"What did we do before Wiki?" by Anonymous
Daniel Mayer,
Wikimedia CFO
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