[Foundation-l] Day 7 Fund Drive Report

Fri Dec 23 05:25:23 UTC 2005

Copied from:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4/Day_7
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A total of 455 donations were made through PayPal on '''Day 7''', yielding the equivalent of
$10,107.89 USD. The average donation that day was $22.22. Small increases in mail and Moneybookers
donations brings those totals to $95 and $545.33 respectively. I'm still waiting for the first
Dexia updates to be mailed to me. 

Grand total for the whole drive at the end of Day 7: '''$85,839.88'''

 AUD     172.41    (129.39 USD) 
 CAD 	364.36 	  (299.84 USD) 
 EUR 	3,132.43  (3,804.93 USD)
 GBP 	273.99 	  (491.35 USD)
 JPY 	29,012.00 (262.12 USD)
 USD 	5,120.26
 Total 	10,107.89 USD

Copied from: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-22/report/

==Special thanks to large donors==
The largest donation this day was $500.00 USD and was made by Lawrence Lessig. There were also
many donors who gave the equivalent of about $100 or more (listed in no particular order); Dr
Horst W Doelle, J Nasser, Sebastian Kloska, Joseph Emile MARTIN, Urs Gilgen, Frederique Guilbert,
Robert Matthews, James Craig, Jonathan Brown, Chris Sachs, Andrew Maretz, Paul Seet, Tabrez Syed,
Lawrence Lessig and 10 anonymous donors.

==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/2005-12-22/detail/

*"Go Wiki Go!" by Drew Williams
*"For Paul Wright for Christmas" by anonymous
*"&#24067;&#26045;&#12356;&#12383;&#12375;&#12414;&#12377;&#12290;" by anonymous
*"Thank you for showing the power of sharing." by Lee Carleton 	
*"I'm poor. But I love cool stuff!" by Rasmus Rydstrom
*"&#1057; &#1090;&#1086;&#1095;&#1082;&#1080; &#1079;&#1088;&#1077;&#1085;&#1080;&#1103;
&#1075;&#1083;&#1086;&#1073;&#1072;&#1083;&#1100;&#1085;&#1086;&#1081;
&#1075;&#1088;&#1072;&#1076;&#1072;&#1094;&#1080;&#1080;..." by anonymous
*"without you i could not do my assignments!" by alexander onea 	
*"Good job guys(and girls of course)! Every reader should donate 1 EURO and the progress bar will
fast increase! Gruesse aus Deutschland!" by Oliver Moeller 	
*"I've already gotten more value than my donation." by Vincent Wright
*"I use Wikipedia so much that I would feel guilty if I didn't donate." by anonymous
*"Ich bedanke mich!" by Alfred Soehl
*"first point of reference for almost everything" by anonymous
*"Quickly replacing Google as my first destination for information on a topic -- in a few years I
suspect we won't know how we lived without it." by Conor Sen
*"go portuguese wikipedia!" by Luis Fagundes
*"Thanks mates!" by Florian Antretter
*"Weiter So!!!!!!!" by Steffen Rehnig

Some of my personal favorites:
*"Proof that the best things in the world are free." by Vijay P Choksi
*"Simply the greatest website and information resource in the history of the world. I am immensely
proud of this site" by Paul C. Chapman 	
*"Wikipedia is built on millions of small edits. Let's keep it alive with millions of small
donations." by James Lovell 	
*"Wikipedia makes me look with hope at the future of humanity." by Dario Teixeira 
*"For Freedom" by James Hanks

-- Daniel Mayer

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