people are not contributing in the English language markets this year as opposed to last
What is the evidence for that?
because of trends when the English Wikipedia's popularity has not significantly changed.
English projects per http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/pageviews
November 2010: 7.6 billion November 2011: 8.3 billion or +9% November 2012: 9.6 billion or +15%
Along with my questions about lowered fundraising expectations which Zack specifically asked to re-post to this list, I would also like answers to my earlier questions about why multivariate testing can't be used to measure donations, because all of the multivariate tests published so far were used to measure donations. There is no doubt in my mind from the distribution of message performance that if we tested the remaining volunteer-submitted appeals from 2009-10, we could do twice as well per day as we did at the beginning of this month, and not just during these last days of the year when we are probably sacrificing $7 million to slashed growth rates, jettisoned Fellowships without community consultation, and salaries pegged well below that of other Bay Area technology employers.
As for the reserve fund investment, I would like to point out that investment in securities which are expected to return less than inflation are a guaranteed risk that the purchasing power of donors' funds will diminish before they are spent. As far as I can tell from messages off list at Garfield's request, all reserve investments were expected to perform below the rate of inflation when they were purchased.
Sincerely, James Salsman
(personal capacity, for a moment)
I make this the...third or fourth? currently active thread on this mailing list that has been turned into "make more money, pay more money and invest it in credit unions".
James, I don't think there's anything you've said here that you haven't said 2, 3, 5 or 20 times before. Regardless of if you're right or wrong - and I'm not making a judgment call on that, because things like financial investments are not in my skillset or domain knowledge - your suggestions are not being put into practise. I've seen no sign from the replies that anyone is planning on actively pursuing your (many) suggestions, for a variety of reasons. At this point the best thing to do is probably to drop the stick.
On 28 December 2012 17:13, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
people are not contributing in the English language markets this year as opposed to last
What is the evidence for that?
because of trends when the English Wikipedia's popularity has not significantly changed.
English projects per http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/pageviews
November 2010: 7.6 billion November 2011: 8.3 billion or +9% November 2012: 9.6 billion or +15%
Along with my questions about lowered fundraising expectations which Zack specifically asked to re-post to this list, I would also like answers to my earlier questions about why multivariate testing can't be used to measure donations, because all of the multivariate tests published so far were used to measure donations. There is no doubt in my mind from the distribution of message performance that if we tested the remaining volunteer-submitted appeals from 2009-10, we could do twice as well per day as we did at the beginning of this month, and not just during these last days of the year when we are probably sacrificing $7 million to slashed growth rates, jettisoned Fellowships without community consultation, and salaries pegged well below that of other Bay Area technology employers.
As for the reserve fund investment, I would like to point out that investment in securities which are expected to return less than inflation are a guaranteed risk that the purchasing power of donors' funds will diminish before they are spent. As far as I can tell from messages off list at Garfield's request, all reserve investments were expected to perform below the rate of inflation when they were purchased.
Sincerely, James Salsman
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