On Day 6 (Wednesday 23 February eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not available in UTC) we made $5,197.09 (USD equivalent) through a combination of PayPal (completed payments only) and mail donations (no updates available for other sources at this time).
This is a decrease of 22.48% from Day 5 and represents 11.16% of total funds collected so far ($46,474.53 ; only counting full days) and 6.93% of our goal ($75,000). At the end of Day 6 we had reached 62.07% of our goal.
We were continuing to have server issues on Day 6. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/February_2005_server_crash for details (if you can access that page)
Day 6 Day 5 comparison Breakdown: PayPal USD equiv USD equiv %change AUD 60.71 $47.99 $33.37 43.79% CAD 173.29 $140.42 $232.80 -39.68% EUR 1143.72 $1,495.07 $2,553.09 -41.44% GBP 447.17 $848.64 $595.47 42.52% JPY 19582 $185.62 $130.73 41.98% USD 2404.35 $2,404.35 $3,158.91 -23.89% PayPal total: $5,122.09 $6,704.38 -23.60% MoneyBookers no data no data -na- Mail/Post $75.00 no data 100.00% TOTAL $5,197.09 $6,704.38 -22.48%
Grand totals so far (only counting complete days) PayPal USD equiv %GrandTotal AUD 1257.71 $994.22 2.14% CAD 2145.86 $1,738.79 3.74% EUR 12487.24 $16,323.32 35.07% GBP 2398.41 $4,551.70 9.78% JPY 123678 $1,172.34 2.52% USD 21267.46 $21,267.46 45.69% PayPal total: $46,047.84 Moneybookers: $426.69 0.92% Mail/Post $75.00 0.16% GRAND TOTAL $46,549.53 100.00% % toward goal 62.07%
For the most recent grand total and other details visit http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1
Some selected comments from Day 6: See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_6
"power to the pedia!" by Anonymous
"Super Site!" by Urs Schwerzmann
"A most delightful time waster!" by Shreesh Taskar
"Que viva la educacion gratuita" by Dennis Salcedo
"My first stop when I want to get started on a new topic." by Joel Gilmore
"I use wiki's nearly every day, thank you for your service hopefully my small contribution will increase when i get out of college! :)" by Anonymous
"Symbolic gesture of appreciation. Wikipedia is important." by Thomas Herzog
"Thanks for all the hard work everyone has put into this project." by Steven Schulz
"After learning so much from your site, I owe you at least this. (Woooo! Cheaper than college!)" by Anonymous
"What a great idea. Probably the most useful site on the Internet for a poor college student like me." by David Klorig
"For the fundraiser; Get better response times, please!" by David Barbour
Some of my favorites:
"Wisdom of the Crowds rules the Long Tail" by Anonymous
"Once in a lifetime someone comes up with a great idea that improves the democracy of ideas (PI)" by Anonymous
"A better world is possible -- and this is an example of that better world" by grupoHuracan Corporation
"If you believe, like me, that this sort of thing is the future, then you are obligated to contribute. I am happy to do so." by Anonymous
"wikipedia has saved my ass more times than id like to admit" by Louise Noble
"Where would the world be without Wikimedia?" by Emily Baker
"The Bear wishes you well" by Anonymous
"thanks for wikipedia. the revolution will be wikified." by Jeremy Friedman
"Bravo" by Anonymous
Oh, and:
"Can I make it to mav's favorites? ;-)" by Anonymous (well, almost :)
Daniel Mayer, Wikimedia CFO
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