[Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?

[Matthew Walker]

>
> Hi, is there any directory or file or whatever with the codes for
> campaigns?

Nope; not yet. I'll have to get Zack and Megan to write something up.

I see only codes without sense.

I feel there's a matrix joke here that I don't want to make.

~Matt Walker
Wikimedia Foundation
Fundraising Technology Team


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Dennis Tobar <dennis.tobar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, is there any directory or file or whatever with the codes of
> campaigns?, I see only codes without sense.
>
> Regards...
>
> Dennis Tobar Calderón
> El 01/04/2013 18:46, "Matthew Walker" <mwalker at wikimedia.org> escribió:
>
> > >
> > > 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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