[Foundation-l] Fundraising banners

aude aude.wiki at gmail.com
Sat Jan 1 03:00:07 UTC 2011


On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
pbeaudette at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> We wanted you to hear first: in about three hours, we're switching the
> messaging on the banners to "Thank you!"


Yay!!! Congratulations Philippe and the fundraising team and thanks for the
hard work!

Cheers,
Katie (@aude)



> It's time to thank the world, because the world came together to help
> support the Wikimedia projects.  We're delighted to report that nearly half
> a million donations came in.  It's a resounding vote of confidence in what
> you've done with the projects.  So take a moment to stop, to celebrate, and
> to enjoy the accomplishment... and then it's time to focus on the tenth
> anniversary year!
>
> You may notice that the fundraising statistics page doesn't quite say $16M.
>  Since you might be asked about that, here's the math we used to arrive at
> the end of the fundraiser:
>
> In addition to the amount posted on the graph (roughly $13.5M), we have
> about $1.5 million in revenue received during testing or received but not
> yet posted (manual check entry, etc).  We've been counting on $500,000 from
> the chapters in our thermometer formula but given the extraordinary chapter
> fundraising success this year, we're confident that we'll be over the $16M
> mark.  (We're also including an adjusted value for the recurring gifts that
> we've received this year.)
>
> We're delighted to be able to start 2011 with our community giving goal
> already met.  We did this in a collaborative fashion: testing nearly 200
> banner ideas submitted by the community, using translations, with community
> involvement in the testing, and in the next phase of the campaign -
> encouraging people to edit.
>
> We'll be running "Thank you" banners for the next few days to tell the
> world how much this editing community appreciates their financial support,
> and then will convert to banners inviting people to get involved in tenth
> anniversary celebrations around the world, and to make their first edit (the
> "contribution" phase of the campaign).
>
> Now let's go celebrate!
>
> Zack Exley
> Philippe Beaudette
> Megan Hernandez
>
> _______________________
> Philippe Beaudette
> Head of Reader Relations
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>
> pbeaudette at wikimedia.org
>
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>
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