"Continuate cosi!" - Ivan Sassi "Vivent les systèmes libres!" - Martijn Coppoolse "Für eine tolles Projetk" - anon "Wikipedia ist eines der aktuellsten Nachschlagewerke." - Tobias Maurus "Kostenlos ist klasse. Aber es sollte nicht umsonst sein." - Andre Versuemer "Please don't go with google. - keep up the great work! Don't go with google please, stay independant!" - anon "und ein klares NEIN gegen Studiengebuehren" - Peer Johannes "Je serais trop malheureux de voir une telle entreprise faillir ou tomber en de mauvaises mains." - Benjamin Guillemain d'Echon "Ánimo, es un gran proyecto. ¡El conocimiento debe ser libre!" - anon "Seguir adelante con este inmenso proyecto..." - Josep Penella Sala "Don't move to Google!" - anonymous Polish donor "Wikipedia rulez. it:"Come sarebbe il mondo senza Wikipedia?"" - anon "Für eine der besten Ideen des Informationszeitalters" - Michael Schmitz
And, as yesterday, lots of "wieder so"s.
Mark
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:05:52 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
On Day 4 (Monday 21 February eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not available in UTC) we made $6,586.15 (USD equivalent) through PayPal (no updates available for other sources at this time). This is a decrease of 16.44% from Day 3 but still does represent 18.34% of total funds collected so far ($35,904.88 ; only counting full days) and 8.78% of our goal ($75,000).
Remarkably, the rate of donations were not too adversely affected by the downtime today. 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), 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).
Day 4 Day 3 comparison Breakdown: PayPal USD equiv USD equiv %change AUD 32 $25.30 $330.90 -92.36% CAD 785 $636.09 $238.93 166.23% EUR 1489.63 $1,947.24 $2,755.66 -29.34% GBP 332.06 $630.18 $696.89 -9.57% JPY 8501 $80.58 $198.96 59.50% USD 3266.76 $3,266.76 $3,596.33 -9.16% PayPal total: $6,586.15 $7,817.66 -15.75%
MoneyBookers $64.00 -100.00%
TOTAL $6,586.15 $7,881.66 -16.44%Grand totals so far (only counting complete days)
PayPal USD equiv %GrandTotal AUD 1150.4 $909.39 2.53% CAD 1571.01 $1,272.99 3.55% EUR 9926.89 $12,976.44 36.14% GBP 1952.46 $3,705.39 10.32% JPY 82302.58 $780.15 2.17% USD 15833.85 $15,833.85 44.10% PayPal total: $35,478.19
Moneybookers: $426.69 1.19%
GRAND TOTAL $35,904.88 100.00%
% toward goal 47.87%
For the most recent grand total and other details visit http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1 (once everything is back up)
Some selected comments from Day 4: See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_4 in about a day (hopefully I'll be able to post by then)
"I love this site. Keep up the awesome work!" by Anonymous
"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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