opps (was: Re: [Foundation-l] Day 6 Fund Drive Report )

Daniel Mayer maveric149 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 25 23:20:58 UTC 2005


That subject line obviously should read 'Day 7 Fund Report'. 

Sorry folks!

-- mav


--- Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Day 7 (Thursday 24 February eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not
> available in UTC) we made $$5,421.02 (USD equivalent) through a combination
> of
> PayPal (completed payments only) and mail donations (no updates available for
> other sources at this time). 
> 
> This is a decrease of 5.84% from Day 6 and represents 10.43% of total funds
> collected so far ($51,970.55 ; only counting full days) and 7.23% of our goal
> ($75,000). At the end of Day 6 we had reached 69.29% of our goal. 
> 
> For information on our recent server issues see
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/February_2005_server_crash 
> 
> Day  7			        Day 6 comparison	
> Breakdown:				
> PayPal		USD equiv	USD equiv	%change
> AUD	  76.00	    $60.08	   $47.99	 25.19%
> CAD 	 320.73	   $259.89	  $140.42	 85.08%
> EUR 	1045.41	 $1,366.56	$1,495.07	 -8.60%
> GBP 	 353.22	   $670.34	  $848.64	-21.01%
> JPY	10455	    $99.10	  $185.62	-46.61%
> USD	2670.05	 $2,670.05	$2,404.35	 11.05%
> PayPal total:	 $5,126.02	$5,122.09	  0.08%
> 				
> 				
> MoneyBookers	no data	           $0.00	  0.00%
> Mail/Post	  $295.00	  $75.00	293.33%
> 				
> 	TOTAL	$5,421.02	$5,122.09	5.84%
> 
> 
> Grand totals so far (only counting complete days)			
> 			
> PayPal		   USD equiv	%GrandTotal
> AUD	1333.71	   $1,054.30	2.03%
> CAD 	2466.59	   $1,998.68	3.85%
> EUR 	13532.65  $17,689.88	34.04%
> GBP 	2751.63	   $5,222.04	10.05%
> JPY	134133	   $1,271.45	2.45%
> USD	23937.51  $23,937.51	46.06%
> PayPal total:	  $51,173.86	
> 			
> 			
> Moneybookers:	    $426.69      0.82%
> Mail/Post	    $370.00      0.71%
> 			
> GRAND TOTAL	$51,970.55	100.00%
> 			
> % toward goal      69.29%	
> 
> For the most recent grand total and other details visit
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1
> 
> Some selected comments from Day 7:
> See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_7
> 
> "To prevent commercialization of knowledge" by Anonymous
> 
> "Great site: my favourite and most visited since using the internet!" by
> Andrew
> O'Callaghan
> 
> "this site embodies the progressive possibilities of the internet" by
> Anonymous
> 
> "The best purpose for donation I can think of." by Anonymous
> 
> "Keep up the good work! It will forces the other encyclopedies to evolve: and
> the user will get a double benefit: a good wikipedia, and better Encarta and
> others encyclopedies..." by Anonymous
> 
> "This is the first time I have donated on line. You should be very proud of
> what you have created." by Anonymous
> 
> "Wikimedia, a terrific open source project of knowledge" by Alexander Orlov
> 
> "here's to FDLing all the knowledge in da universe! keep up the good work
> :-)"
> by Anonymous
> 
> "detailed relevant answsers to my off the cuff technical questions. thank
> you."
> by David McMillan
> 
> "Pour une encyclopedie si utile." by Gabriel D. Matthews
> 
> "Long Live Freedom" by Anonymous
> 
> "Astonishingly useful!" by Navarro Parker
> 
> Some of my favorites:
> 
> "I love philanthropy" by Anonymous
> 
> "Because I owe Dysprosia 5$" by Jonathan Cary
> 
> "This is Harry donating to Wikimedia. I come here everyday and I think that
> it
> is important to support this foundation." by Robert Gilbert
> 
> "Testing paypal script, more donations to come, I promise!" x 3 by Michael
> Becker 
> 
> "Wikipedia helps me drop clue bombs on people." by Michael Styne
> 
> "I love the sound of the click as I point my wallet at worthy causes." by
> Jeremy Smith
> 
> "Onwards and upwards!" by Yuri Astrakhan
> 
> 
> Daniel Mayer,
> Wikimedia CFO
> 
> 
> 
> 
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