If all goes well, we will begin publicizing our annual campaign for 2008-2009 tomorrow, using sitenotices, a press release, etc. (Yes, we're aware of that little election happening at the same time - it's not entirely unwelcome.) We've just taken the new donation front-end live here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
(and related links.)
You can also test our initial batch of site-notices here:
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
(If you're logged in, you may have to reset your interface language. The notice should reflect the existing translations.) Click "random page" a few times to see the different notices. If you give, the thermometer should update within 10 minutes or so.
Please report any issues on-list or off-list to <rmontoya at wikimedia dot org>. When reporting issues, please make sure you tell us your browser configuration and operating system.
Known issues to be addressed over the coming days and weeks, not in this order:
1. Translation of non-Core pages to more languages. 2. Longer, searchable Live Comments features 3. Set minimum donation script for $1 (or equivalent) 4. Next set of 3 or 4 site notices 5. Enable wiki-specific site notices for other wiki projects. i.e. The site notice for Wikibooks would read "Wikibooks is a non-profit project: Donate today." 6. Re-launch the donations page with the Chapter related giving options (http://dev.donate.wikimedia.org/index.php/Donate/Now2/en). 7. Rupees as a currency. 8. Re-work the Stories page for translating. 9. Take live the new "Thank you" page shown after donations ( http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Thank_You )
Thanks to the fundraising & tech teams for all their work on this so far. :-)
2008/11/3 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
If all goes well, we will begin publicizing our annual campaign for 2008-2009 tomorrow, using sitenotices, a press release, etc.
(To clarify, the press release will be distributed _after_ the US election. :-)
Last year, there were pages listing every donation and pages with running tallies of donations. At the time I used that information to do a variety of statistical analysis.
I haven't been able to locate anything comparable this year. Do such resources exist?
-Robert Rohde
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
2008/11/3 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
If all goes well, we will begin publicizing our annual campaign for 2008-2009 tomorrow, using sitenotices, a press release, etc.
(To clarify, the press release will be distributed _after_ the US election. :-)
Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Last year, there were pages listing every donation and pages with running tallies of donations. At the time I used that information to do a variety of statistical analysis.
I haven't been able to locate anything comparable this year. Do such resources exist?
-Robert Rohde
I'm not sure if they set up a full, public interface through CiviCRM yet... but there's a small excerpt of the most current donations available at: http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ContributionHistory. I think they're planning on making stats as well, but if not I'll tell them about you. :-)
2008/11/5 Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com:
Last year, there were pages listing every donation and pages with running tallies of donations. At the time I used that information to do a variety of statistical analysis.
I haven't been able to locate anything comparable this year. Do such resources exist?
Trevor has whipped up
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:ContributionStatistics
today - and we have the live contribution tracker, which hopefully will have paging soon.
All the information comes directly from the fundraising database, so this will include checks, stock donations, wire transfers, etc., as they are recorded to the database. You may want to compare against the Benefactors page to track major gifts.
We're very interested in metrics, as you can imagine, and we're interested in sharing them publicly where doing so doesn't affect donor privacy, so there'll be more to come.
2008/11/5 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
Trevor has whipped up
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:ContributionStatistics
today - and we have the live contribution tracker, which hopefully will have paging soon.
And, for reference, the code used is here: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ContributionRepor...
As far as I know, the whole system is based on a public logging table which already filters out donor information of people who want to remain private, so we may be able to give more access to core data...
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
2008/11/5 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
Trevor has whipped up
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:ContributionStatistics
today - and we have the live contribution tracker, which hopefully will have paging soon.
And, for reference, the code used is here: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ContributionRepor...
As far as I know, the whole system is based on a public logging table which already filters out donor information of people who want to remain private, so we may be able to give more access to core data... -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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I see that the Contribution history page has been updated to allow scrolling into older donations. Thanks, that is helpful. Would it be possible to also add USD equivalents to foreign currencies? I'm hoping your database already stores the converted amount. Otherwise it would take me a while to figure out all the conversions.
-Robert Rohde
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