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http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4/Day_12
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=Tuesday 27 December=
A total of 293 donations were made through PayPal on '''Day 12''',
yielding the equivalent of
$8,333.09 USD; an increase of $2520 over Day 11. The average donation this day was
$28.44.
A total of about $37.62 was donated through MoneyBookers since the last update, bringing
that
total to $810.30. Still no update on mail and Dexia donations.
:Grand total at end of day: '''$122,396.29'''
Breakdown of Day 12 PayPal donations:
AUD 138.84 (104.20 USD)
CAD 369.82 (304.33 USD)
EUR 1,652.61 (2,007.41 USD)
GBP 196.25 (351.94 USD)
JPY 49,128.00 (443.87 USD)
USD 5,121.35
Total 8,333.09 USD
Copied from:
http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-27/report/
==Special thanks to those who gave large donations==
An anonymous donor gave the largest donation on this day; $500 USD. Denis Bider gave
$365.24, the
second highest amount. There were also many donors who gave the equivalent of about $100
or more
(listed in no particular order); Emil Vlad, Roberta W. Orr, David Tam, John Gerbracht,
Dwayne
Pelletier, S Page, Reg Handford, Dallan Quass, and 11 anonymous donors.
:<small>Note: While large donations are great, it should be noted that about 70% of
all the money
donated to the Wikimedia Foundation comes from donations that are the equivalent of $50 or
less
and the average donation is about $25.</small>
==Selected donor comments==
Let's all thank everybody who donated on this day by reading their comments.
:Full listing at:
http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-27/detail/
*"Wikepedia is the most uesful site next to Google" by anonymous
*"les autres sources de savoir sont toues en train de devenir payantes" by
anonymous
*"Macht weiter so! Es ist garnicht so einfach ohne Bezahlung richtige Informationen
zu bekommen."
by Peter Hammerl
*"Because I know of no better place online" by anonymous
*"To the most important WWW project ever. Well thought and well made" by
anonymous
*"If I have a question or an problem - Wikiedia is the solution!! Yes this is the
best of the
web!!" by Andreas Galster
*"Il gesto e' piccolo ma trovo giusta dare una mano penso che anche una piccola
offerta sia utile
speriamo che diventi sempre migliore .Continuate cosi'." by alessandro motta
*"Yeah, keep it going, keep it coming ! Support a great cause!" by Iain Davidson
*"THE best online source of knowledge; unsurpassed in quality and content!!" by
Roberta W. Orr
*"Here's to the only medium that lets me fix other people's mistakes
immediately." by denis bider
*"The technical information available on this site is incredibly thorough and
useful." by Randall
Huggins
*"Wikipedia makes boring school assignments so easy!" by Marcus Kaplan
*"It's wonderful to be able to enjoy such quality information in such a clean
free way. Thank you
all!" by anonymous
*"Roll out
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki !" by S Page
*"Happy to support this excellent project. You are fundamentally changing the way the
world gets
its information. : )" by anonymous
*"One of the greatest sites ever. Wikipedia is the first place I go to learn about
something." by
Jonathan Ryan
*"This may be the best thing ever." by Jason Fialkoff
Some of my personal favorites:
*"Wikipedia is better than corn chips, and I really like corn chips." by Chris
Kilgour
*"Give until it hurts. That is the only way to free knowlege" by Tarek Fatah
*"Wikipedia is to the 21st Century what the library of Alexandria was to
antiquity" by anonymous
*"Once we dreamed The Net would put knowledge at our fingertips. Now, finally,
it's true." by Joe
Moross
*"Worth so much more than I could ever give..." by John Eubank
*"Together we can build something great." by anonymous
*"Love this thing" by Hiver F Ambroise
-- Daniel Mayer
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