On 12/21/07, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)gmail.com> wrote: The two main reasons for extending the drive: * Hopefully we'll have a new fundraising site up soon, and this will allow us to do some more testing on what difference it could make; * We want to benefit from any increased likelihood to give over the holidays. Obviously there are many things about this fundraiser that have been very broken; the fact that I (still as Board member) spent my weekend brainstorming with an old student friend of mine over the design of the sitenotice to get the current one ready tells you something about the bandwidth that WMF has had for the execution of this thing: There's an audit underway, we're relocating, we're hiring, etc. So no, simply extending the FR by another few days is not going to do miracles, but hopefully it'll net something like another $50K-$100K, which isn't nothing. Erik

Thomas Dalton wrote: Nope. You may have missed two important factors in the analysis 1) the blog was exclusively in english, which means a rather significant part of our readership was not able to read its content 2) the blog is only advertized at the top of all english-speaking projects. So, if the money was mostly in US dollars, it may have been thanksgiving, or the blog. Ant

May be it will help in analysis a bit if the donation form contained tick boxes with predefined reasons? that is beside the comment box or make the comment box the 'other' option. --user:alnokta