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Manuel Schneider

2 Apr 2013 2 Apr '13

3:22 a.m.

Did you see this April's Fool Day comic on xkcd, with an interactivly growing dog: "The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the Wikimedia Foundation via this link." http://xkcd.org/ Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to WMF through this comic? I see that there is a special campaign reference in the donation link but how can it fetch the amount? Has there been any cooperation / negotiation between Randall Munroe and the WMF beforehand? /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch

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Marc A. Pelletier

2 Apr 2 Apr

3:28 a.m.

On 04/01/2013 03:22 PM, Manuel Schneider wrote:

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Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to WMF through this comic? I see that there is a special campaign reference in the donation link but how can it fetch the amount?

It is: http://samarium.wikimedia.org/ My understanding is that this was done in collaboration with Randall, but it has obvious general applicability. -- Marc

Manuel Schneider

3:42 a.m.

Thanks Marc and Michael! Am 01.04.2013 21:28, schrieb Marc A. Pelletier:

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http://samarium.wikimedia.org/ My understanding is that this was done in collaboration with Randall, but it has obvious general applicability.

Thomas Morton

3:45 a.m.

Heh, the CSV's have some amusing, umm. campaign names in them... Tom On 1 April 2013 20:42, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch>wrote;wrote:

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Thanks Marc and Michael! Am 01.04.2013 21:28, schrieb Marc A. Pelletier:

http://samarium.wikimedia.org/ My understanding is that this was done in collaboration with Randall, but it has obvious general applicability.

thanks for this link, I didn't know about this site and data. This is very useful. Regards, Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Benoit Landry

4:06 a.m.

Campaign "unfuckingknown", with the medium being "spontaneous". Perhaps it is some sort of error handler, when a donation comes from a source the system cannot determine due to some glitch, it puts it there? ;) ~~~~,Salvidrim

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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:45:18 +0100 From: morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF? Heh, the CSV's have some amusing, umm. campaign names in them... Tom On 1 April 2013 20:42, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch>wrote;wrote:

Thanks Marc and Michael! Am 01.04.2013 21:28, schrieb Marc A. Pelletier:

http://samarium.wikimedia.org/ My understanding is that this was done in collaboration with Randall, but it has obvious general applicability.

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Manuel Schneider

4:09 a.m.

Am 01.04.2013 22:06, schrieb Benoit Landry:

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maybe it is possible to set your own medium and campaign parameter, so it will automatically show up in this list once a donation has been recorded with it. /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch

Matthew Walker

4:11 a.m.

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Campaign "unfuckingknown", with the medium being "spontaneous".

The amusing entries are either people fuzzing us; or us testing. There's very little validation of the campaign tracking fields. What comes into the system goes out of the system. We probably should clean the data up a little better though. :) I see that there is a special campaign reference in the donation link but

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how can it fetch the amount?

As stated previously in this thread, the data comes from Samarium; Fundraising's new data proxy. We're slowly going to be adding more and more data to this box as we figure out how to sanitize and redact the data we have. This should help the chapters because part of the data we're going to be releasing as soon as we figure out how to do it will be the banner and landing page impression counts. ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team

Federico Leva (Nemo)

4 a.m.

Manuel Schneider, 01/04/2013 21:42:

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Thanks Marc and Michael! Am 01.04.2013 21:28, schrieb Marc A. Pelletier:

http://samarium.wikimedia.org/ My understanding is that this was done in collaboration with Randall, but it has obvious general applicability.

thanks for this link, I didn't know about this site and data. This is very useful.

Dario also copied it to http://datahub.io/en/dataset/wikimedia-fundraiser Nemo

Michael Snow

3:29 a.m.

On 4/1/2013 12:22 PM, Manuel Schneider wrote:

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It's real, and there was some technical cooperation to facilitate xkcd being able to pull the amount donated.In April Fool's terms, this is a joke, not a prank (consistent with how we generally handle those activities on Wikipedia as well, I believe). --Michael Snow

Deryck Chan

5:37 a.m.

As a side note, the first panel of the comic also openly calls its readers to edit war over certain articles. On 1 April 2013 20:22, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch>wrote;wrote:

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Thomas Morton

5:39 a.m.

Not uncommon for Xkcd :p Although the article being used is changing so rapidly that it's unlikely to cause much disruption. On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars daily??? :s Tom On Monday, April 1, 2013, Deryck Chan wrote:

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As a side note, the first panel of the comic also openly calls its readers to edit war over certain articles. On 1 April 2013 20:22, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch<javascript:;>

wrote:

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Matthew Walker

5:46 a.m.

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On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars daily???

Depends on the day :p We had a 2 million dollar day when we opened the floodgates in the US, UK, CA, AU, and NZ (We had five; I think NZ was the fifth.) Keep this in mind though; if the fundraiser is expected to raise ~35M that's ~100k a day we need to raise! And the amount we're expected to raise keeps going up. ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

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daily???

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:s Tom On Monday, April 1, 2013, Deryck Chan wrote: > As a side note, the first panel of the comic also openly calls its

readers

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> to edit war over certain articles. > > > On 1 April 2013 20:22, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch

<javascript:;>

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Dennis Tobar

6:07 a.m.

Hi, is there any directory or file or whatever with the codes of campaigns?, I see only codes without sense. Regards... Dennis Tobar Calderón El 01/04/2013 18:46, "Matthew Walker" <mwalker(a)wikimedia.org> escribió:

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On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars

daily??? Depends on the day :p We had a 2 million dollar day when we opened the floodgates in the US, UK, CA, AU, and NZ (We had five; I think NZ was the fifth.) Keep this in mind though; if the fundraiser is expected to raise ~35M that's ~100k a day we need to raise! And the amount we're expected to raise keeps going up. ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Morton < morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Not uncommon for Xkcd :p > > Although the article being used is changing so rapidly that it's unlikely > to cause much disruption.

On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars

daily???

:s Tom On Monday, April 1, 2013, Deryck Chan wrote: > As a side note, the first panel of the comic also openly calls its

readers

> to edit war over certain articles. > > > On 1 April 2013 20:22, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch

<javascript:;>

> >wrote: > > > Did you see this April's Fool Day comic on xkcd, with an interactivly > > growing dog: "The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the > > Wikimedia Foundation via this link." > > > > http://xkcd.org/ > > > > Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to WMF through > > this comic? I see that there is a special campaign reference in the > > donation link but how can it fetch the amount? > > > > Has there been any cooperation / negotiation between Randall Munroe

and

the WMF beforehand? /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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Matthew Walker

7:36 a.m.

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Hi, is there any directory or file or whatever with the codes for campaigns?

Nope; not yet. I'll have to get Zack and Megan to write something up. I see only codes without sense. I feel there's a matrix joke here that I don't want to make. ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Dennis Tobar <dennis.tobar(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars

raise

keeps going up. ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Morton < morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Not uncommon for Xkcd :p > > Although the article being used is changing so rapidly that it's

unlikely

to cause much disruption. On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars

daily???

:s Tom On Monday, April 1, 2013, Deryck Chan wrote: > As a side note, the first panel of the comic also openly calls its

readers >> to edit war over certain articles. >> >> >> On 1 April 2013 20:22, Manuel Schneider <

manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch

<javascript:;> >> >wrote: >> >> > Did you see this April's Fool Day comic on xkcd, with an

interactivly

>> > growing dog: "The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the >> > Wikimedia Foundation via this link." >> > >> > http://xkcd.org/ >> > >> > Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to WMF

through

> > this comic? I see that there is a special campaign reference in the > > donation link but how can it fetch the amount? > > > > Has there been any cooperation / negotiation between Randall Munroe

and >> > the WMF beforehand? >> > >> > /Manuel >> > -- >> > Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens >> > Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list >> > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> >> > Unsubscribe:

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Benoit Landry
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Deryck Chan
Federico Leva (Nemo)
Manuel Schneider
Marc A. Pelletier
Matthew Walker
Michael Snow
Thomas Morton