[Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

[Matthew Walker]

>
> On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv
> files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars daily???


Depends on the day :p We had a 2 million dollar day when we opened the
floodgates in the US, UK, CA, AU, and NZ (We had five; I think NZ was the
fifth.)

Keep this in mind though; if the fundraiser is expected to raise ~35M
that's ~100k a day we need to raise! And the amount we're expected to raise
keeps going up.

~Matt Walker
Wikimedia Foundation
Fundraising Technology Team


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Not uncommon for Xkcd :p
>
> Although the article being used is changing so rapidly that it's unlikely
> to cause much disruption.
>
> On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv
> files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars
daily???
> :s
>
> Tom
>
> On Monday, April 1, 2013, Deryck Chan wrote:
>
>> As a side note, the first panel of the comic also openly calls its
readers
>> to edit war over certain articles.
>>
>>
>> On 1 April 2013 20:22, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider at wikimedia.ch
<javascript:;>
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > Did you see this April's Fool Day comic on xkcd, with an interactivly
>> > growing dog: "The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the
>> > Wikimedia Foundation via this link."
>> >
>> > http://xkcd.org/
>> >
>> > Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to WMF through
>> > this comic? I see that there is a special campaign reference in the
>> > donation link but how can it fetch the amount?
>> >
>> > Has there been any cooperation / negotiation between Randall Munroe and
>> > the WMF beforehand?
>> >
>> > /Manuel
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