[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Day 4 Fund Drive Report (updated)

Wed Feb 23 05:10:31 UTC 2005

Sorry folks - one more update on the way. 

I synced exchange rate figures between the two tables and fixed a more
embarrassing error; in my haste to get this report out I included *gross*
instead of net figures. Opps. :)

-- mav

--- Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Numbers have been updated and corrected.
> 
> On Day 4 (Monday 21 February eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not
> available in UTC) we made $6,586.15 (USD equivalent) through PayPal (no
> updates
> available for other sources at this time). This is a decrease of 16.44% from
> Day 3 but still does represent 18.85% of total funds collected so far
> ($34,946.69 ; only counting full days) and 8.78% of our goal ($75,000). 
> 
> Remarkably, the rate of donations were not too adversely affected by the
> downtime today. Since the donation forms were not available during a large
> part
> of the downtime, I can only guess that people remembered our PayPal account
> name. 
> 
> Donations did significantly increase soon after a Slashdot story about the
> downtime was released (9:28PM, EST), forcing us to move the backup donation
> page once the Slashdot Effect brought down the website hosting it
> (http://wikisearch.org ; Sorry about that Angela). 
> 
> NOTE: Pending transactions are also included in the below numbers (some of
> them
> will likely turn out to be canceled)
> 
> Day  4			        Day  3 comparison	
> Breakdown:				
> PayPal		USD equiv	USD equiv	%change
> AUD	32	     $25.30       $330.90	-92.36%
> CAD 	785	    $636.09	  $238.93	166.23%
> EUR 	1489.63	  $1,947.24	$2,755.66	-29.34%
> GBP 	332.06	   $630.18	  $696.89	 -9.57%
> JPY	8501	    $80.58	  $198.96	-59.50%
> USD	3266.76	 $3,266.76	$3,596.33	 -9.16%
> PayPal total:	 $6,586.15	$7,817.66	-15.75%
> 				
> MoneyBookers				
> 		 no data           $64.00	-100.00%
> 				
> 	TOTAL	$6,586.15	$7,881.66	-16.44%
> 
> 
> Grand totals so far (only counting complete days)			
> 			
> PayPal		   USD equiv	%GrandTotal
> AUD	1157.1	     $914.69	 2.62%
> CAD 	1719.92	   $1,393.65	 3.99%
> EUR 	9469.28	  $12,378.24	35.42%
> GBP 	1654.34	   $3,139.61	 8.98%
> JPY	90723	     $859.96	 2.46%
> USD	15833.85  $15,833.85	45.31%
> PayPal total:	  $34,520.00	
> 			
> Moneybookers:			
> 		     $426.69	1.22%
> 			
> GRAND TOTAL	  $34,946.69	100.00%
> 			
> % toward goal 	    46.60%	
> 
> 
> For the most recent grand total and other details visit
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1 
> (once everything is back up)
> 
> Some selected comments from Day 4:
> See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_4 in about a
> day (hopefully I'll be able to post by then)
> 
> "I love this site. Keep up the awesome work!" by Anonymous
> 
> "I use Wiki - I have to pay for it !" by Immo Wetzel
> 
> "You have aided me countless times in my academic pursuits in math, science,
> and the humanities. I can't thank you guys enough." by Laura Napolitano
> 
> "Wiki is the future!" by Christoph Burschka
> 
> "Wikipedia is in my opinion one of the most noble collective human endeavours
> underway in the world today. Thank you so much for contributing to society
> with
> your wonderful website. I love it and abide" by Matthew Barba
> 
> "Wikimedia Rocks!" by Jasmeet Singh
> 
> "I have always had a thirst for knowledge, and this project does more than
> quench it. I am happy to donate." by Matthew Gluesenkamp
> 
> "Cheaper than cable" by Anonymous
> 
> Some of my favorites:
> 
> "Spread your Squids around the world. And use cached pages for logged in
> users
> as well. Fix those and I'll be happy as a [[clam]]. Good job so far!!!" by
> Rami
> Lehti
> 
> "A small price to pay for a project like this. But get a move on with all
> those
> ambitious plans for paper versions. Most of the world doesn't have
> computers."
> by Anonymous
> 
> "The Wikimedia Foundations is an acheivement of great proportions spreading
> the
> one firm truth that information is truly free. Thank you." by Siddharth
> Bhansali
> 
> "Help preserve the sum total of human knowledge for less than the price of
> two
> Caramel Frappuccinos. Wikipedia is not only fat-free and carbohydrate-free,
> it
> will never go straight to your hips!" by Jonet Greene
> 
> "Give Wiki a boost!!" by Kiminori Noma
> 
> 
> Daniel Mayer,
> Wikimedia CFO
> 
> 
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