[Wikimedia-l] Rationale for fundraising record?

[Thomas Dalton]

On Jan 7, 2013 2:08 AM, "James Salsman" <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We do know that this year the decay of fundraising from day to day was
> > steeper than in past years, confirming that we were eating into out
> > existing donor pool faster than before.
>
> On the contrary, December 3rd was a stronger day than December 2nd,
> with a much smaller maximum donation.

One outlier does not disprove anything. There are far too many factors
involved to be able to expect everything to follow some perfect pattern.