Are there any plans for donation matching this campaign?

From reading http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ForGrantSeekers/ I'd say the

Are there any plans for donation matching this campaign? I know a lot of people would be unhappy to see something like "Microsoft matches today's donations" in the sitenotice, but it'd be an incentive to take money off a company people don't like. :) I'm sure the Gates Foundation could be persuaded to support a few days if you pitch it as, among other things, providing a resource for people in the 3rd world who end up with OLPC machines. Brian McNeil -----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Cary Bass Sent: 15 November 2007 18:25 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: [Foundation-l] Fundraising totals as of Nov. 15,2007 @ 12:20 PM (EST) Hi all, weekly updated totals. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207 E-Mail: cbass(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Are there any plans for donation matching this campaign? I know a lot of people would be unhappy to see something like "Microsoft matches today's donations" in the sitenotice, but it'd be an incentive to take money off a company people don't like. :) I'm sure the Gates Foundation could be persuaded to support a few days if you pitch it as, among other things, providing a resource for people in the 3rd world who end up with OLPC machines.

Brian McNeil -----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Cary Bass Sent: 15 November 2007 18:25 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: [Foundation-l] Fundraising totals as of Nov. 15,2007 @ 12:20 PM (EST) Hi all, weekly updated totals.

The 2600+ donations under $1 (so far) are now being excluded from both that online summary and from the tally in the banner that appears everywhere. Doing that seems to eliminate the biggest PR problem (i.e. appearing to claim many more donors than really made a significant contribution). Is that your concern, or is it some other issue?

On Nov 15, 2007 5:50 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote: While we could, in prinicple, stop 1 cent donations from being accepted by the initial form at donate.wikimedia.org (i.e. by using javascript), most of the actual processing is done at Paypal's site and as far as I know there is no way to stop someone from sending pennies through Paypal. If the submission process is being automated (which certainly seems plausible given the donation pattern), then there is already a level of sophistication that would probably make it impossible for us to stop. -Robert Rohde

Interesting. Would it be possible to generate one with the vertical axis being %age of all donations, not an absolute number? In PR terms: it's important to distinguish between us getting money given with stolen credit cards (really bad) and us being used to test stolen credit cards and at best getting a few cents (annoying, but not Massively Morally Wrong)

On 16/11/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote: The amount isn't significant (a little over $20 at most).

Most of the pennies come in sprees (a donation a minute, or close to it). Within a spree, if you get 100 pennies from repeated use of the same card, that is a practical joker.

does this only include paypal, or also the bank transfers, moneybookers, cheques etc? BR, Lodewijk 2007/11/15, Cary Bass <cbass(a)wikimedia.org>rg>: _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Just for fun, I correlated these preliminary donation statistics with the population and GDP for each country. Of course, this is very crude, since it equates donations in a currency with donations coming from a particular country. But anyway, this allows me to roughly compare my own country (Sweden) with my closest neighbors (Norway and Denmark). Switzerland is a top ranking donor nation, with US$ 1588 per million capita. For every billion dollars of GDP in Switzerland, 45 dollars were donated to the Wikimedia Foundation. However, the Swiss franc might be an international currency used by more people than live in the country. And the same goes for the US dollars. The Wikimedia Foundation has received US$ 31 for every billion dollars of United States GDP. Sweden and Norway donate 17/billion GDP, but Denmark only donates 12/billion. This can probably be explained by the higher activity on the Swedish and Norwegian language Wikipedias, whereas the Danish language Wikipedia is lagging behind. Finland has adopted the Euro currency, so tracing donations by currency is not possible. I don't know the GDP figure for the Euro zone, but if I use the GDP of the entire European Union, this becomes 10/billion. The true value should be between 10 and 20. Britain donates 16/billion, so a little behind Sweden and Norway, but clearly ahead of Denmark. However, Canada and Australia donate 19/billion. You might think it is unfair to compare Poland to Scandinavia, since they were behind the iron curtain until 1990 and still only has half of the Scandinavian GDP per capita. But the Polish language Wikipedia is doing very well. And still WMF only receives 3/billion. In contrast, the Czech donate 6/billion. Hungarians only donate 1.7/billion. So, trying to compare equals: * Denmark could do better, to catch up with Sweden and Norway. * Hungary and Poland could do better, to catch up with the Czech. * Britain could do better, to catch up with Canada and Australia. And finally: All could do better. WMF is currently collecting between 1 and 45 dollars for every *billion* dollars of GDP. These are the numbers I used for this non-scientific comparison: Currency; Population (million); GDP (billion US$) USD 298.4 12980 EUR 320 14953 GBP 60.6 2375 CAD 33.1 1165 JPY 127.4 4220 AUD 21.1 718.4 CHF 7.5 264.1 SEK 9.1 285.1 NOK 4.77 213.6 DKK 5.47 256.3 PLN 38.5 631.8 SGD 4.68 137.7 HKD 6.92 263.1 CZK 10.3 236.5 NZD 4.2 108.8 HUF 10.1 208.2 ZAR 47.9 587.5 RON 22.3 256.9 BGN 7.68 87.2 ILS 7.2 170.3 TWD 22.9 355.7 EEK 1.34 26.85 -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l