Hi all,
My name is Sam and I'm part of the online fundraising team. I'm writing to let you know that we just published our 2015 - 2016 Fundraising Report, and would love for you to check it out.
Link here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Fundraising_Report
I've been a happy and small part of the fundraising team for almost two years. And I think I speak for everyone when I say *thank you* for the time and energy you put into making the Wikimedia projects the vibrant, priceless resources that they are for millions of people around the planet. It's a joy to help share your work with the world.
Let us know what you think and what we can clarify.
Regards, Sam
Wow... the increasing donation on Latin America is really impressive!
Is there any specific country that helped more on that?
Teles
Em sexta-feira, 30 de setembro de 2016, Samuel Patton spatton@wikimedia.org escreveu:
Hi all,
My name is Sam and I'm part of the online fundraising team. I'm writing to let you know that we just published our 2015 - 2016 Fundraising Report, and would love for you to check it out.
Link here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_ Fundraising_Report
I've been a happy and small part of the fundraising team for almost two years. And I think I speak for everyone when I say *thank you* for the time and energy you put into making the Wikimedia projects the vibrant, priceless resources that they are for millions of people around the planet. It's a joy to help share your work with the world.
Let us know what you think and what we can clarify.
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Hi Sam,
Thanks. One question that I keep hearing from our volunteers, from our real life organisers and other stakeholders, as well as the press is how the amounts are broken up by country. This would be very helpful information, and would help us to place best practices better. It has been asked for several years in a row now, and it would be great if this information could be released. I understand there are some privacy concerns for some of the smaller countries, where you could perhaps round it off to the nearest round number or something? Both number of donors and amount would be very helpful! Or is this already being published somewhere?
Thanks,
Lodewijk
2016-10-01 3:14 GMT+02:00 Lucas Teles teleswiki@gmail.com:
Wow... the increasing donation on Latin America is really impressive!
Is there any specific country that helped more on that?
Teles
Em sexta-feira, 30 de setembro de 2016, Samuel Patton < spatton@wikimedia.org> escreveu:
Hi all,
My name is Sam and I'm part of the online fundraising team. I'm writing
to
let you know that we just published our 2015 - 2016 Fundraising Report,
and
would love for you to check it out.
Link here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_ Fundraising_Report
I've been a happy and small part of the fundraising team for almost two years. And I think I speak for everyone when I say *thank you* for the
time
and energy you put into making the Wikimedia projects the vibrant, priceless resources that they are for millions of people around the
planet.
It's a joy to help share your work with the world.
Let us know what you think and what we can clarify.
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Hey both,
Apologies for the delay in responding,I have been meaning to respond to this.
Lucas: So one of the biggest changes in Latin American was that the fundraising tech team integrated a new payment processor to accept both local currency and payment methods in a number of Latin America countries. This new integration was key to offering a convenient way to donate and what ultimately led to the success of the Latin America campaign. Out of all the Latin America countries Brazil as you might expect had the biggest gains from this improved payments flow being the largest in size both in terms of: total contributions; the numbers of donors; and its large population size in comparison to its neighbours.
Lodewijk: So just as last year, fundraising totals have been posted by region but there is currently no public data for donations from each country. It's felt that the regional breakdown at least provides a compromise between providing a semi-decent view of where our donations come from while at the same time respecting privacy and other legal reasons that is associated with releasing country level data.
Seddon
On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 2:14 AM, Lucas Teles teleswiki@gmail.com wrote:
Wow... the increasing donation on Latin America is really impressive!
Is there any specific country that helped more on that?
Teles
Em sexta-feira, 30 de setembro de 2016, Samuel Patton < spatton@wikimedia.org> escreveu:
Hi all,
My name is Sam and I'm part of the online fundraising team. I'm writing
to
let you know that we just published our 2015 - 2016 Fundraising Report,
and
would love for you to check it out.
Link here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_ Fundraising_Report
I've been a happy and small part of the fundraising team for almost two years. And I think I speak for everyone when I say *thank you* for the
time
and energy you put into making the Wikimedia projects the vibrant, priceless resources that they are for millions of people around the
planet.
It's a joy to help share your work with the world.
Let us know what you think and what we can clarify.
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Joseph would you be able to elaborate on "privacy and other legal reasons" statement?
Best, Rupert
On Oct 18, 2016 19:25, "Joseph Seddon" jseddon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey both,
Apologies for the delay in responding,I have been meaning to respond to this.
Lucas: So one of the biggest changes in Latin American was that the fundraising tech team integrated a new payment processor to accept both local currency and payment methods in a number of Latin America countries. This new integration was key to offering a convenient way to donate and what ultimately led to the success of the Latin America campaign. Out of all the Latin America countries Brazil as you might expect had the biggest gains from this improved payments flow being the largest in size both in terms of: total contributions; the numbers of donors; and its large population size in comparison to its neighbours.
Lodewijk: So just as last year, fundraising totals have been posted by region but there is currently no public data for donations from each country. It's felt that the regional breakdown at least provides a compromise between providing a semi-decent view of where our donations come from while at the same time respecting privacy and other legal reasons that is associated with releasing country level data.
Seddon
On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 2:14 AM, Lucas Teles teleswiki@gmail.com wrote:
Wow... the increasing donation on Latin America is really impressive!
Is there any specific country that helped more on that?
Teles
Em sexta-feira, 30 de setembro de 2016, Samuel Patton < spatton@wikimedia.org> escreveu:
Hi all,
My name is Sam and I'm part of the online fundraising team. I'm writing
to
let you know that we just published our 2015 - 2016 Fundraising Report,
and
would love for you to check it out.
Link here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_ Fundraising_Report
I've been a happy and small part of the fundraising team for almost two years. And I think I speak for everyone when I say *thank you* for the
time
and energy you put into making the Wikimedia projects the vibrant, priceless resources that they are for millions of people around the
planet.
It's a joy to help share your work with the world.
Let us know what you think and what we can clarify.
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Joseph Seddon wrote:
Lodewijk: So just as last year, fundraising totals have been posted by region but there is currently no public data for donations from each country. It's felt that the regional breakdown at least provides a compromise between providing a semi-decent view of where our donations come from while at the same time respecting privacy and other legal reasons that is associated with releasing country level data.
Huh? Like Rupert, I find this comment very confusing. What specific privacy and legal reasons are there for not providing a per-country breakdown of donations?
MZMcBride
I can understand that if there are countries with very small numbers of donors you wouldn't want to give country-by-country breakdowns. But national charities report on how much money they raise all the time without any legal barriers, so I doubt there can be barriers to WMF reporting by country for most countries....
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:42 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Joseph Seddon wrote:
Lodewijk: So just as last year, fundraising totals have been posted by region but there is currently no public data for donations from each country. It's felt that the regional breakdown at least provides a compromise between providing a semi-decent view of where our donations come from while at the same time respecting privacy and other legal reasons that is associated with releasing country level data.
Huh? Like Rupert, I find this comment very confusing. What specific privacy and legal reasons are there for not providing a per-country breakdown of donations?
MZMcBride
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*bump*
Just wondered whether anyone had been able to look in more detail at what the legal/data protection barriers to releasing statistics broken down by country are?
I'd be particularly interested to see how WMF is doing at securing repeat donations and tax-efficient donations from the UK, as I just received an appeal email with a link to a form that was not really optimised to do either (generally speaking if someone is being asked for a £10 one-off gift, asking them for a £10 monthly gift doesn't get many monthly gifts....)
Chris
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
I can understand that if there are countries with very small numbers of donors you wouldn't want to give country-by-country breakdowns. But national charities report on how much money they raise all the time without any legal barriers, so I doubt there can be barriers to WMF reporting by country for most countries....
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:42 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Joseph Seddon wrote:
Lodewijk: So just as last year, fundraising totals have been posted by region but there is currently no public data for donations from each country. It's felt that the regional breakdown at least provides a compromise between providing a semi-decent view of where our donations come from while at the same time respecting privacy and other legal reasons that is associated with releasing country level data.
Huh? Like Rupert, I find this comment very confusing. What specific privacy and legal reasons are there for not providing a per-country breakdown of donations?
MZMcBride
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