[Foundation-l] Christmas lull

James Hare messedrocker at gmail.com
Sun Dec 31 15:35:41 UTC 2006


That's quite a dip!

Setting the fundraiser back a couple of weeks does not sound like a bad
idea. I have already thought that trying to get $1.5M by January 6 may be a
bit unrealistic, even -with- matching donors.

On 12/31/06, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> http://hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org/~leon/stats/reqstats/reqstats-monthly.png
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> The quiestest two days for Wikimedia were the 24th and 25th, straddling
> week 51 and 52 on the graph. A lull in request rate has continued
> throughout the week. We're still seeing significantly more traffic now
> than we were in the middle of the year, but I have to wonder if it might
> not have been better, in hindsight, to move the fundraising drive back a
> couple of weeks.
>
> -- Tim Starling
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