[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

[Matthew Walker]

I have no information on what did or did not happen on any specific days --
but I can say that the data on frdata.wikimedia.org is unfiltered -- e.g.
it includes major gifts donations as well as online fundraising efforts.

We used to filter out everyone above 10,000 $ USD, but I neglected to add
the same filter for this data -- mostly because that really wasn't really a
good filter. There are better ways to filter; but the best one I can think
of off the top of my head I don't have bandwidth at this moment to
implement. In and of itself not an issue, just an FYI, but I would also
have to generate this and a filtered file because the filtered file would
only be good for online fundraising which does not reveal the whole truth
about how the WMF fundraises.

~Matt Walker
Wikimedia Foundation
Fundraising Technology Team


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>wrote:

> Megan can certainly correct me if I've got the wrong end of the stick,
> but I think these are probably once-off payments rather than the
> result of a good day of banner-based fundraising.
>
> The October report estimates $2.7m fundraising through the month, but
> the spreadsheet data totals $3.8m. The discrepancy is around a million
> dollars, and the monthly report mentions "a $1m grant from the Sloan
> Foundation", which tallies nicely.
>
> I couldn't spot a specific grant for September, but there was a
> provisional estimate of approximately $2m, and the data totals $2.5m.
> The blip on 2/9 is about half a million dollars, roughly the same as
> the discrepancy, and I would not be surprised if this is again a large
> donation/grant.
>
> Sadly, daily Sloan grants are probably not a sustainable approach...
>
> A.
>
> On 25 November 2013 11:51, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Megan,
> >
> > Per the attached graph of the
> > https://frdata.wikimedia.org/yeardata-day-vs-sum.csv
> > data, your announced October 4th fundraising test on 100% of anonymous
> > users was anticlimactic. But what the heck did you do on September 2nd
> > and October 22nd, and would you please do that every day? Even if it
> > falls off at the same rate as the July test, that still means you
> > could produce an endowment sufficient to do away with fundraising at
> > current spending levels in less than eight months.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > James Salsman
> >
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