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http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4/Day_7
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A total of 455 donations were made through PayPal on '''Day 7''',
yielding the equivalent of
$10,107.89 USD. The average donation that day was $22.22. Small increases in mail and
Moneybookers
donations brings those totals to $95 and $545.33 respectively. I'm still waiting for
the first
Dexia updates to be mailed to me.
Grand total for the whole drive at the end of Day 7:
'''$85,839.88'''
AUD 172.41 (129.39 USD)
CAD 364.36 (299.84 USD)
EUR 3,132.43 (3,804.93 USD)
GBP 273.99 (491.35 USD)
JPY 29,012.00 (262.12 USD)
USD 5,120.26
Total 10,107.89 USD
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http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-22/report/
==Special thanks to large donors==
The largest donation this day was $500.00 USD and was made by Lawrence Lessig. There were
also
many donors who gave the equivalent of about $100 or more (listed in no particular order);
Dr
Horst W Doelle, J Nasser, Sebastian Kloska, Joseph Emile MARTIN, Urs Gilgen, Frederique
Guilbert,
Robert Matthews, James Craig, Jonathan Brown, Chris Sachs, Andrew Maretz, Paul Seet,
Tabrez Syed,
Lawrence Lessig and 10 anonymous donors.
==Selected donor comments==
Let's all thank everybody who donated on this day by reading their comments.
:Full listing at:
http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-22/detail/
*"Go Wiki Go!" by Drew Williams
*"For Paul Wright for Christmas" by anonymous
*"布施いたします。"
by anonymous
*"Thank you for showing the power of sharing." by Lee Carleton
*"I'm poor. But I love cool stuff!" by Rasmus Rydstrom
*"С точки
зрения
глобальной
градации..."
by anonymous
*"without you i could not do my assignments!" by alexander onea
*"Good job guys(and girls of course)! Every reader should donate 1 EURO and the
progress bar will
fast increase! Gruesse aus Deutschland!" by Oliver Moeller
*"I've already gotten more value than my donation." by Vincent Wright
*"I use Wikipedia so much that I would feel guilty if I didn't donate." by
anonymous
*"Ich bedanke mich!" by Alfred Soehl
*"first point of reference for almost everything" by anonymous
*"Quickly replacing Google as my first destination for information on a topic -- in a
few years I
suspect we won't know how we lived without it." by Conor Sen
*"go portuguese wikipedia!" by Luis Fagundes
*"Thanks mates!" by Florian Antretter
*"Weiter So!!!!!!!" by Steffen Rehnig
Some of my personal favorites:
*"Proof that the best things in the world are free." by Vijay P Choksi
*"Simply the greatest website and information resource in the history of the world. I
am immensely
proud of this site" by Paul C. Chapman
*"Wikipedia is built on millions of small edits. Let's keep it alive with
millions of small
donations." by James Lovell
*"Wikipedia makes me look with hope at the future of humanity." by Dario
Teixeira
*"For Freedom" by James Hanks
-- Daniel Mayer
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