Just forwarding on an announcement from our Head of Community Giving regarding the public availability of raw data from our online fundraiser. This may be interesting for researchers to explore donation patterns to Wikipedia. We'd certainly love to see such analysis. Please feel free to forward this, and if you want to work on any specific analysis, please add a note to the bottom of this placeholder page:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2008/Report

Thanks! Erik

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Just announcing the data dumps for our fundraiser data for the 2008 Annual Fundraiser.

As always, we like to provide our anonymitized data to the community...both to show our openness and transparency, but also to ask for the communities help in doing analysis and data crunching to aid our future fundraising efforts.

The dumps are located here: http://download.wikipedia.org/fundraising/2008/

The main gift data files are 2008_Fundraiser.csv.gz. The fields are date stamp, USD donation amount, original currency amount, original currency, country of donation, & payment type (paypal/check/cash/dexia/etc.).

The main data on the site notices and their effectiveness is 2008_Fundraiser_Tracking.csv.gz. The fields here are template (the name of the site notice we used), tracking source (from where the click came from, campaign (an internal tag), USD converted amount, original currency, and country of donation.

If any in the community could help analyze the site notice data for effectiveness, it would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I would like to thank the Wikimedia tech team for helping make this possible.

If you have any questions, please send them my way.

-Rand

-- Rand Montoya Head of Community Giving Wikimedia Foundation www.wikimedia.org Email: rand@wikimedia.org Phone: 415.839.6885 x615 Fax: 415.882.0495 Cell: 510.685.7030

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