Please read below Cynthia

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org Date: Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising log site broken To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

2008/7/27 Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com:

As you can see from this bug report https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14875, we have internal reporting set up on a different system and you can donate via the web-form on http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate. External reporting (like the public comments list) hasn't been set up yet.

That's correct; we've recently consolidated most of our fundraising data in CiviCRM 2.0. (There's still some pre-2006 data that we may want to import, though it is not as complete as the more recent data.) This new system is the responsibility of Rand Montoya, our recently hired Head of Community Giving. We hope to have a new public reporting engine up and running soon, which will be separate from the CiviCRM 2.0 installation for security reasons.

This is not insignificant: to finally have almost 100,000 donors in a single database allows us to understand past donation patterns much better than ever before, and to properly thank and cultivate donors. And, CiviCRM is an open source solution, which is also used by Creative Commons (who are just a couple of blocks away). Together we hope that we can drive adoption of a standard open source solution for donor management in the non-profit space, which is currently dominated by proprietary software.

Big thanks to David Strauss for his work on the database migration. :-) -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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