[Foundation-l] Day 12 Fund Drive Report

[Daniel Mayer]

Copied from:
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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