On 01/02/2008, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
All -
I've completed a report on our most recent fundraiser:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Report
Thanks to everyone who contributed, directly or indirectly. If you spot errors or misinterpretations, please do correct them or leave a note on the talk page. I'll also try to answer any questions you may have.
Nice, thank you.
I am surprised to see no special mention of the translation process? I suppose it comes under "Advance planning" and maybe the chapter discussion.
Berto (I think?) also raised the point about whether landing pages not in English should be merely translated (and thus include a lot of probably irrelevant info about US tax deductability, etc) or more attention paid to appropriate localisation.
The point was also made that matching donations came too late in the campaign to be as effective as they might have otherwise been. This might have been unavoidable because of the individual donor though. There is no mention in the report of matching donations?
Kudos to the chapters for their participation too :)
cheers, Brianna