Numbers have been updated and corrected.
On Day 4 (Monday 21 February eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not available in UTC) we made $6,287.52 (USD equivalent) through PayPal (no updates available for other sources at this time). This is a decrease of -20.23% from Day 3 but still does represent 18.15% of total funds collected so far ($34,648.06 ; only counting full days) and 8.38% of our goal ($75,000).
Remarkably, the rate of donations were not too adversely affected by the downtime on Monday. Since the donation forms were not available during a large part of the downtime, I can only guess that people remembered our PayPal account name.
Donations did significantly increase soon after a Slashdot story about the downtime was released (9:28PM, EST on Monday), forcing us to move the backup donation page once the Slashdot Effect brought down the website hosting it (http://wikisearch.org ; Sorry about that Angela).
NOTE: Pending transactions are also included in the below numbers (some of them will likely turn out to be canceled)
Day 4 Day 3 comparison Breakdown: PayPal USD equiv USD equiv %change AUD 29.68 $23.46 $330.90 -92.91% CAD 750.35 $608.01 $238.93 154.48% EUR 1410.77 $1,844.16 $2,755.66 -33.08% GBP 315.19 $598.17 $696.89 -14.17% JPY 8082 $76.61 $198.96 -61.50% USD 3137.11 $3,137.11 $3,596.33 -12.77% PayPal total: $6,287.52 $7,817.66 -19.57% MoneyBookers no data $64.00 -100.00% TOTAL $6,287.52 $7,881.66 -20.23%
Grand totals so far (only counting complete days) PayPal USD equiv %GrandTotal AUD 1154.78 $912.85 2.63% CAD 1685.27 $1,365.57 3.94% EUR 9390.42 $12,275.16 35.43% GBP 1637.47 $3,107.59 8.97% JPY 90304 $855.99 2.47% USD 15704.20 $15,704.20 45.32% PayPal total: $34,221.37 Moneybookers: $426.69 1.23% GRAND TOTAL $34,648.06 100.00% % toward goal 46.20%
For the most recent grand total and other details visit http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1
Some selected comments from Day 4: See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_4
"I use Wiki - I have to pay for it !" by Immo Wetzel
"You have aided me countless times in my academic pursuits in math, science, and the humanities. I can't thank you guys enough." by Laura Napolitano
"Wiki is the future!" by Christoph Burschka
"Wikipedia is in my opinion one of the most noble collective human endeavours underway in the world today. Thank you so much for contributing to society with your wonderful website. I love it and abide" by Matthew Barba
"Wikimedia Rocks!" by Jasmeet Singh
"I have always had a thirst for knowledge, and this project does more than quench it. I am happy to donate." by Matthew Gluesenkamp
"Cheaper than cable" by Anonymous
Some of my favorites:
"Spread your Squids around the world. And use cached pages for logged in users as well. Fix those and I'll be happy as a [[clam]]. Good job so far!!!" by Rami Lehti
"A small price to pay for a project like this. But get a move on with all those ambitious plans for paper versions. Most of the world doesn't have computers." by Anonymous
"The Wikimedia Foundations is an acheivement of great proportions spreading the one firm truth that information is truly free. Thank you." by Siddharth Bhansali
"Help preserve the sum total of human knowledge for less than the price of two Caramel Frappuccinos. Wikipedia is not only fat-free and carbohydrate-free, it will never go straight to your hips!" by Jonet Greene
"Give Wiki a boost!!" by Kiminori Noma
Daniel Mayer, Wikimedia CFO
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