[Foundation-l] Fundraising totals as of Nov. 15, 2007 @ 12:20 PM (EST)

[THURNER rupert]

interesting viewpoints ... what do you think about asking 2-3 question to
make the statistics better? and which questions could that be? region / what
should the money be used for / ?

On Nov 17, 2007 5:25 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

>
>
> > > > Currency      Number of
> > > > Contributions         Amount of
> > > > Contributions
> > > > in USD        Average
> > > > in USD
> > > > Total         22763   681,388.14      29.93
> > > > AUD   479     13,694.51       28.59
> > > > BGN   3       29.18   9.73
> > > > CAD   712     22,477.91       31.57
>
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> Just for fun, I correlated these preliminary donation statistics
> with the population and GDP for each country.  Of course, this is
> very crude, since it equates donations in a currency with
> donations coming from a particular country.  But anyway, this
> allows me to roughly compare my own country (Sweden) with my
> closest neighbors (Norway and Denmark).
>
> Switzerland is a top ranking donor nation, with US$ 1588 per
> million capita.  For every billion dollars of GDP in Switzerland,
> 45 dollars were donated to the Wikimedia Foundation.  However, the
> Swiss franc might be an international currency used by more people
> than live in the country.  And the same goes for the US dollars.
> The Wikimedia Foundation has received US$ 31 for every billion
> dollars of United States GDP.
>
> Sweden and Norway donate 17/billion GDP, but Denmark only donates
> 12/billion.  This can probably be explained by the higher activity
> on the Swedish and Norwegian language Wikipedias, whereas the
> Danish language Wikipedia is lagging behind.
>
> Finland has adopted the Euro currency, so tracing donations by
> currency is not possible.  I don't know the GDP figure for the
> Euro zone, but if I use the GDP of the entire European Union, this
> becomes 10/billion. The true value should be between 10 and 20.
> Britain donates 16/billion, so a little behind Sweden and Norway,
> but clearly ahead of Denmark.  However, Canada and Australia
> donate 19/billion.
>
> You might think it is unfair to compare Poland to Scandinavia,
> since they were behind the iron curtain until 1990 and still only
> has half of the Scandinavian GDP per capita.  But the Polish
> language Wikipedia is doing very well.  And still WMF only
> receives 3/billion.  In contrast, the Czech donate 6/billion.
> Hungarians only donate 1.7/billion.
>
> So, trying to compare equals:
>
>  * Denmark could do better, to catch up with Sweden and Norway.
>
>  * Hungary and Poland could do better, to catch up with the Czech.
>
>  * Britain could do better, to catch up with Canada and Australia.
>
> And finally: All could do better. WMF is currently collecting
> between 1 and 45 dollars for every *billion* dollars of GDP.
>
> These are the numbers I used for this non-scientific comparison:
>
> Currency; Population (million); GDP (billion US$)
>
> USD     298.4   12980
> EUR     320     14953
> GBP     60.6    2375
> CAD     33.1    1165
> JPY     127.4   4220
> AUD     21.1    718.4
> CHF     7.5     264.1
> SEK     9.1     285.1
> NOK     4.77    213.6
> DKK     5.47    256.3
> PLN     38.5    631.8
> SGD     4.68    137.7
> HKD     6.92    263.1
> CZK     10.3    236.5
> NZD     4.2     108.8
> HUF     10.1    208.2
> ZAR     47.9    587.5
> RON     22.3    256.9
> BGN     7.68    87.2
> ILS     7.2     170.3
> TWD     22.9    355.7
> EEK     1.34    26.85
>
>
> --
>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>
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