Jimbo wrote on Wikitech-l:
I'll try to put together a graph showing daily donations during the pledge drive. That'll be later this week, though.
I already have the data (minus the name, account number, and email columns) sorted and in OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet (one sheet per month with total amounts donated in each currency). It would be easy to have a daily breakdown for the fund drive period (although an hourly breakdown might be more informative for the two biggest days).
However, some people have given either their name and/or user name in the one of the two comment fields ('Subject' and 'Note' columns). I think we should contact those people to ask permission for us to publish their comments. For example, the person who donated money for European domains gave his user name in the 'Note' field.
Some thoughts: In the future we can deal with this by stating up front that whatever people write in comment fields will be made public by default but their name and email address will not be made public unless they put that information in one or the other comment fields. This will give donors the option of making their identity public knowledge just by including their name/user name in one or the other comment fields.
But I think most of the time people want their donation comments published - It gives a nice personal touch to otherwise dry data. It would also make it easier for people to see that their donation has been recorded.
Any thoughts?
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
However, some people have given either their name and/or user name in the one of the two comment fields ('Subject' and 'Note' columns). I think we should contact those people to ask permission for us to publish their comments. For example, the person who donated money for European domains gave his user name in the 'Note' field.
Why not just delete those fields entirely? I don't see much purpose to publishing them, even where they are anonymous.
I'd say just a daily breakdown of donations received would be more than adequate to answer people's legitimate curiosity about how the fundraising went. Even breaking it down to individual donation amounts seems a bit much to me, although I don't really see any harm in it either.
--Jimbo
--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
However, some people have given either their name and/or user
name
in the one of the two comment fields ('Subject' and 'Note' columns). I think we should contact those people to ask
permission
for us to publish their comments. For example, the person who donated money for European domains gave his user name in the
'Note'
field.
Why not just delete those fields entirely? I don't see much purpose to publishing them, even where they are anonymous.
I'd say just a daily breakdown of donations received would be more than adequate to answer people's legitimate curiosity about how the fundraising went. Even breaking it down to individual donation amounts seems a bit much to me, although I don't really see any harm in it either.
I personally see an advantage to showing each individual transaction by day, so that if someone wanted to make sure that their $21.00 transaction on then 17th was counted and didn't "fall through the cracks", they could verify it.
Also, it will also show the donation amounts, so that people who would normally not consider donating because their donation might seem to little might be encouraged to see donations of $1 or $2 (it only taked a few thousand of those to add up to some big money)
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--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
However, some people have given either their name and/or user name in the one of the two comment fields ('Subject' and 'Note' columns). I think we should contact those people to ask permission for us to publish their comments. For example, the person who donated money for European domains gave his user name in the 'Note' field.
Why not just delete those fields entirely? I don't see much purpose to publishing them, even where they are anonymous.
Because it gives our donors the opportunity to say nice things about us or otherwise give some direction on how they would like us to spend their donation. It also gives them the opportunity to optionally let everyone else know they donated by signing whatever message they leave in a comment field (not to mention it makes it easier to find their donation and confirm that it was in fact received). Best to have that info in the public, IMO.
I'd say just a daily breakdown of donations received would be more than adequate to answer people's legitimate curiosity about how the fundraising went. Even breaking it down to individual donation amounts seems a bit much to me, although I don't really see any harm in it either.
It would in fact be easier for me if the detail is retained in some form. Then I can keep just one set of books - the public one.
--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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