In the last week, the current fundraising test has stabilized at about $100,000 per day from showing the latest banners one time (per cookie) to 5% of logged out enwiki readers. It was falling from larger amounts during July 1st-10th, but at that time the banner was being offered to 5% of all page views, not 5% of IP addresses, so eventually everyone logged out was seeing them until that was fixed. The data is at http://frdata.wikimedia.org/ That is quite a bit more than ever before. It represents a sustained capability of $2 million per day from enwiki alone, or probably at least $3 million per day from all projects. That would probably be enough to raise a full endowment in less than a year, or an endowment matching recent growth rates (not counting the last two years' slowdowns) in less than two years. However, we should still do multivariate testing of the remaining untested ~300 banner messages, because the variance of the tested messages (a minority of those submitted years ago) suggests that there's still an undiscovered ~2.5x improvement over the current message available from altering the goal statement in the main ask sentence in the current banners. On a likely related note, there has been no slowdown in the growth of the short popular vital articles, on a byte-per-time basis. They still continue to grow at about 4 bytes per day each. This has been constant for so long that I am beginning to think that the apparent reduction in the number of active editors (actually, active accounts) must be illusory as the growth and stabilization of controversial articles and topics reduces the motivation for editors to create replacement or alternate accounts. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>