All -
I've completed a report on our most recent fundraiser:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Report
Thanks to everyone who contributed, directly or indirectly. If you spot errors or misinterpretations, please do correct them or leave a note on the talk page. I'll also try to answer any questions you may have.
Best, Erik
Erik Moeller a écrit :
All -
I've completed a report on our most recent fundraiser:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Report
Thanks to everyone who contributed, directly or indirectly. If you spot errors or misinterpretations, please do correct them or leave a note on the talk page. I'll also try to answer any questions you may have.
Best, Erik
Just for information. It's no more possible to maintain up to date the list of Benefactors (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Benefactors) with the new database.
On 01/02/2008, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
All -
I've completed a report on our most recent fundraiser:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Report
Thanks to everyone who contributed, directly or indirectly. If you spot errors or misinterpretations, please do correct them or leave a note on the talk page. I'll also try to answer any questions you may have.
Nice, thank you.
I am surprised to see no special mention of the translation process? I suppose it comes under "Advance planning" and maybe the chapter discussion.
Berto (I think?) also raised the point about whether landing pages not in English should be merely translated (and thus include a lot of probably irrelevant info about US tax deductability, etc) or more attention paid to appropriate localisation.
The point was also made that matching donations came too late in the campaign to be as effective as they might have otherwise been. This might have been unavoidable because of the individual donor though. There is no mention in the report of matching donations?
Kudos to the chapters for their participation too :)
cheers, Brianna
On Feb 4, 2008 8:26 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/02/2008, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
All -
I've completed a report on our most recent fundraiser:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Report
Thanks to everyone who contributed, directly or indirectly. If you spot errors or misinterpretations, please do correct them or leave a note on the talk page. I'll also try to answer any questions you may have.
Nice, thank you.
I am surprised to see no special mention of the translation process? I suppose it comes under "Advance planning" and maybe the chapter discussion.
Berto (I think?) also raised the point about whether landing pages not in English should be merely translated (and thus include a lot of probably irrelevant info about US tax deductability, etc) or more attention paid to appropriate localisation.
Yes, that has actually been brought up in many other venues as well and I support such an idea. I think the German and French pages currently do that too: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/de and http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/fr.
The point was also made that matching donations came too late in the campaign to be as effective as they might have otherwise been. This might have been unavoidable because of the individual donor though. There is no mention in the report of matching donations?
Kudos to the chapters for their participation too :)
cheers, Brianna
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On 2/4/08, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, that has actually been brought up in many other venues as well and I support such an idea. I think the German and French pages currently do that too: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/de and http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/fr.
Yep, certainly localized & customized pages are a good thing. Chapters are very much encouraged to drive this process.
There's obviously a tension between having a standardized corporate design for the fundraising page, and the ability to customize it to specific needs. I think the current system is already reasonably good at striking a balance, and can be refined further to allow for things like custom videos, stories, etc.
I want to add that WMF is still, highly unusually for a non-profit, operating without a Head of Development leading this process. The hiring process for this role is ongoing, and we've shortlisted a couple of very good candidates.
The point was also made that matching donations came too late in the campaign to be as effective as they might have otherwise been. This might have been unavoidable because of the individual donor though. There is no mention in the report of matching donations?
The timing of the donation made it impossible to phase it in earlier - and given that it overlapped with a general boost around New Year's, it's hard to tell what the impact on donor behavior was. But we'll certainly continue to, *cough*, play with matches to see what effect they might have. ;-)
On Feb 4, 2008 10:15 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
The point was also made that matching donations came too late in the campaign to be as effective as they might have otherwise been. This might have been unavoidable because of the individual donor though. There is no mention in the report of matching donations?
The timing of the donation made it impossible to phase it in earlier - and given that it overlapped with a general boost around New Year's, it's hard to tell what the impact on donor behavior was. But we'll certainly continue to, *cough*, play with matches to see what effect they might have. ;-)
In the current US Presidential Election, Barack Obama has been driving contributions with a "matching donors" program, which just puts two individuals who give at the same level in touch with each other. Perhaps something similar could be looked into for future use?
I will not link the Obama matching donors program directly, for fear of being accused of electioneering. :-)
In the current US Presidential Election, Barack Obama has been driving contributions with a "matching donors" program, which just puts two individuals who give at the same level in touch with each other. Perhaps something similar could be looked into for future use?
I don't understand - what does that achieve?
On 05/02/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
In the current US Presidential Election, Barack Obama has been driving contributions with a "matching donors" program, which just puts two individuals who give at the same level in touch with each other. Perhaps something similar could be looked into for future use?
I don't understand - what does that achieve?
I guess the idea is that you encourage each other to donate - "well, John's putting in $50 this month, and if he can then I ought to".
(I haven't looked into the program, but I've heard a similar thing suggested before)
On 05/02/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I guess the idea is that you encourage each other to donate - "well, John's putting in $50 this month, and if he can then I ought to".
So it's something to be considered for recurring donations, rather than the next fundraising drive?
It's annoying that regular monthly standing orders/direct debits aren't as popular in the US as the UK. (It's much easier to get someone to set up £5/month automatically than get them to give you £60/year by hand each year.)
- d.
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