[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

[James Salsman]

Matthew Walker wrote:

> I have no information on what did or did not happen on any specific days

Who does?

I'm also very interested in July 30, when average donations peaked;
Ref.: http://i.imgur.com/3oXk7jq.png
I can't figure anything actually useful out from
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013#July_.26_August_Update


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:12 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:
> If October 4th and/or 22nd had large donations because of one-time events
> instead of regular donation appeal changes, why are they both bracketed by
> vastly abnormally successful previous and subsequent days?
>
>
> On Monday, November 25, 2013, James Salsman wrote:
>>
>> P.S. As the referenced attachment doesn't make it through to the
>> archives or digests, there is a copy of the fundraising data graph at:
>> http://i.imgur.com/MkXIW4J.png
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:51 PM, 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