[Foundation-l] Day 4 Fund Drive Report (final update)

[Daniel Mayer]

Numbers have been updated and corrected.

On Day 4 (Monday 21 February eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not
available in UTC) we made $6,287.52 (USD equivalent) through PayPal (no updates
available for other sources at this time). This is a decrease of -20.23% from
Day 3 but still does represent 18.15% of total funds collected so far
($34,648.06 ; only counting full days) and 8.38% of our goal ($75,000). 

Remarkably, the rate of donations were not too adversely affected by the
downtime on Monday. Since the donation forms were not available during a large
part of the downtime, I can only guess that people remembered our PayPal
account name. 

Donations did significantly increase soon after a Slashdot story about the
downtime was released (9:28PM, EST on Monday), forcing us to move the backup
donation page once the Slashdot Effect brought down the website hosting it
(http://wikisearch.org ; Sorry about that Angela). 

NOTE: Pending transactions are also included in the below numbers (some of them
will likely turn out to be canceled)

Day  4			Day  3 comparison	
Breakdown:				
PayPal		USD equiv	USD equiv	%change
AUD	  29.68	    $23.46	  $330.90	-92.91%
CAD 	 750.35	   $608.01	  $238.93	154.48%
EUR 	1410.77	 $1,844.16	$2,755.66	-33.08%
GBP 	 315.19	   $598.17	  $696.89	-14.17%
JPY	8082	    $76.61	  $198.96	-61.50%
USD	3137.11	 $3,137.11	$3,596.33	-12.77%
PayPal total:	 $6,287.52	$7,817.66	-19.57%
				
MoneyBookers				
		no data	           $64.00	-100.00%
				
	TOTAL	$6,287.52	$7,881.66	-20.23%

Grand totals so far (only counting complete days)			
			
PayPal		USD equiv	%GrandTotal
AUD	1154.78	     $912.85	 2.63%
CAD 	1685.27	   $1,365.57	 3.94%
EUR 	9390.42	  $12,275.16	35.43%
GBP 	1637.47	   $3,107.59	 8.97%
JPY	90304	     $855.99	 2.47%
USD	15704.20  $15,704.20	45.32%
PayPal total:	  $34,221.37	
			
Moneybookers:			
		     $426.69	 1.23%
			
GRAND TOTAL	  $34,648.06	100.00%
			
% toward goal 	   46.20%	

For the most recent grand total and other details visit
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1 

Some selected comments from Day 4:
See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_4 

"I use Wiki - I have to pay for it !" by Immo Wetzel

"You have aided me countless times in my academic pursuits in math, science,
and the humanities. I can't thank you guys enough." by Laura Napolitano

"Wiki is the future!" by Christoph Burschka

"Wikipedia is in my opinion one of the most noble collective human endeavours
underway in the world today. Thank you so much for contributing to society with
your wonderful website. I love it and abide" by Matthew Barba

"Wikimedia Rocks!" by Jasmeet Singh

"I have always had a thirst for knowledge, and this project does more than
quench it. I am happy to donate." by Matthew Gluesenkamp

"Cheaper than cable" by Anonymous

Some of my favorites:

"Spread your Squids around the world. And use cached pages for logged in users
as well. Fix those and I'll be happy as a [[clam]]. Good job so far!!!" by Rami
Lehti

"A small price to pay for a project like this. But get a move on with all those
ambitious plans for paper versions. Most of the world doesn't have computers."
by Anonymous

"The Wikimedia Foundations is an acheivement of great proportions spreading the
one firm truth that information is truly free. Thank you." by Siddharth
Bhansali

"Help preserve the sum total of human knowledge for less than the price of two
Caramel Frappuccinos. Wikipedia is not only fat-free and carbohydrate-free, it
will never go straight to your hips!" by Jonet Greene

"Give Wiki a boost!!" by Kiminori Noma


Daniel Mayer,
Wikimedia CFO


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