It would be nice if a compendium is made at the end of the fund drive, with collection of many languages.

We could host that on foundation wiki.

Could editors from various languages isolate the best quotes ?

Anthere

notafish a écrit:

Little international addition to the interesting quotes ;-)

No des pescado: enseña a pescar. by Alberto Gaona "Don't give fish, teach how to fish."

Bravo à cette formidable initiative pour démocratiser la connaissance ! by Guillaume Lasnier "Bravo to this wonderful initiative destined to democratize knowledge!"

Wissen ist die Waffe der Gewaltlosigkeit. by Arnim Faryn "Knowledge is the weapon of non-violence."

and my favorite ones ;-)

Bon j'irais pas au restau aujourd'hui ;o). by Fabrice Terrasson "Ok, I won't go to the restaurant today ;o)"

Is there really a 200 character max? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? really? ok by anonymous.

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:43:46 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:

...

On Day 1 (Friday eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not available in UTC) we made $9,939.47 (USD equivalent) through a combination of PayPal and MoneyBookers.

PayPal breakdown: AUD 314.03 (247.27 USD) CAD 334.40 (271.58 USD) EUR 3413.75 (4464.75 USD) GBP 475.17 (899.77 USD) JPY 28340 (269 USD) USD 3424.63 Total 9576.78 (USD equivalent)

Moneybookers: $362.69 (USD equivalent)

For the most recent grand total and other details visit http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1

Some selected comments from Day 1: See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_1

"Knowledge isn't a possession - it cannot be monopolized." by Robert K Bell

"You guys rock!!" by Anonymous

"Fantastic system - best of luck from a Random Page addict" " by Steve Agland

"Wikipedia is Hope" by Anonymous

"Ignorance breeds fear, use information to gain knowledge and empower yourself with Peace" by Anonymous

"Wikipedia is a splendid way of sharing information. Lets do this!" by Anonymous

"You guys do a fantastic job!!!" by Guoming Sun

"You have helped me in college and in life. I don't have much money, and I've never given a donation. But if any cause is worthy, it is your own. Thank you" by Ryan Lewis

"Wikipedia, is there anything it can't do?" by Anonymous

"If you read this note, donate!" by Anonymous

"It's Not Much But Every Individual's Contribution Counts! What The Wiki Is All About!" by Anonymous

And my personal favorites:

"For not deleting at least some articles" by Vladimir Mozhenkov

"Wikipedia: Destroyer of productivity; love of my life." by Anonymous

"bonk" by Anonymous

We met and then well-exceded the goal to raise $75,000 (USD) in this quarter's fund drive. See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1 for details (still waiting for final numbers in every source category so final grand total will be higher).

I consider 11:59 PM Monday 28 February 2005 (eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not available in UTC) as the official end of our fund drive for accounting purposes. As of right now though, all fund drive notes should be replaced by congratulatory messages that can be left until midnight on Thursday (UTC). After that, [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] should be blanked until the next fund drive.

For reference, here is the message displayed on the English Wikipedia:

<!-- this notice should stay until 12AM Thursday 11 March --> <div class="fundraising" id="fundraising" style="margin-top:5px;"> You did it! Thanks to your generosity we exceeded our fund drive goal by 15%. ([[wikimedia:Fund drives/2005/Q1|details]])<br> <small> Show your pride in Wikipedia by purchasing merchandise through [http://www.cafepress.com/wikipedia our Cafe Press shop]. </small> </div>

My regular home computer will not boot for some unknown reason, so I will not be able to run the Day 10 (Sunday) report at this time. Day 11 (Monday) will be the final report for this fund drive.

Daniel Mayer, Wikimedia CFO

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--- Petr Kadlec petr.kadlec@gmail.com wrote:

But I have a question: I always thought the fundraising pages on wikimediafoundation.org use templates so that they are kept synchronized all the time, without need for any per-page manual work. But if I take a look at those pages, each language version contains a different number in the status graph. I understand that it is a PITA to have to update each language version separately, but shouldn't it work automatically by a single update of a template page?

There are only two pages that got updated with each update; the detailed main fund drive page and the progress bar graph (which is translated into many different languages). I have noticed that cache is *badly* out of sync on the foundation wiki - often edits I would make were not viewable by me until I cleared my cache. That may be what you are seeing.

-- mav

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I would like to give a big thank you to Daniel for the excellent work he's done on this. The daily updates were very nice to read.

All best,

Erik

a bit late, but please let me say

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:54:32 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:

--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:

...

I would like to give a big thank you to Daniel for the excellent work he's done on this. The daily updates were very nice to read.

Thanks :). Waerth also helped with updates while I was sleeping or otherwise away. This was a big help.

You did it ;-)

Anyway besides the cache synch problem, I suppose many of you visit the site during the funddrive and found many 'tweak and conceive possible improvement ideas. Your feedback (here?) or meta:foundation site feedback will be very appliciated.

--- Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:

Another thanks to mav for the very informative updates!

Thanks for the compliment. :)

Much thanks also goes to the numerous people who created translations and who helped me with updates.

I do have one question---what's the relationship between the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland? Is that money to be considered part of our overall fundraising, i.e. money that can eventually be used for servers, etc., or is it specifically for activities within Germany?

That is a very good question that I'm not clear on either. One reason why I sat on the Wikimedia Deutschland numbers for a few days was due to this question. Every indication I did get from the few members of the Wikimedia Deutschland board I talked too about this, was that we are all one Wikimedia and the numbers should be included. Thus I finally made that update.

Legal issues about how that money can be spent (or transfered and then spent) still are not clear to me. Speaking solely as a user and not as CFO, I think it would make the most sense (and probably be easiest to do) if Wikimedia Deutschland spent this money directly inside Germany to buy hardware needed to set-up a server farm in Germany. This could even become the primary and logical purpose of having national chapters in the first place (other than the social aspect).

At the very least a squid-caching set-up in Germany would be nice, but the amount of money Wikimedia Deutschland has would make it possible to have a database slave as well (IIRC, Jamesday said this type of set-up is possible even for wikis). Then the next time our Florida cluster goes down we can theoretically be up in at least read-only mode in a very short amount of time (please, somebody correct me if this is possible with a separate squid-only set-up).

-- mav

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