Copied from: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4/Day_12 --------------------------------------------------------------

=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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