[Wikipedia-l] Q1 2005 Fund Drive was a phenomenal success

[Tomer Chachamu]

(Sent incorrectly first time)

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:08:12 +0000, Tomer Chachamu <the.r3m0t at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 05:48:13 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer
> <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Tomer Chachamu <the.r3m0t at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:41:45 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer
> > > <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > If I have time I'll conduct an analysis of the fund drive this weekend. I'm
> > > > particularly interested in what can be done to improve future fund drives.
> > >
> > > Please, could you find how much of the money came from donations of
> > > $100+ (or equivalent in other currencies), how much was from
> > > $75-$100...$10-20, $5-10, $0-5 ?
> >
> > Good idea.
> 
> Wikimedia foundation site: "most donations we receive are the
> equivalent of $20 or less." - when I read that for the first time, I
> wondered whether these small donations were actually significant next
> to the occasional much larger one.
> 
> Incidentally, the same page ("Wikimedia_needs_your_help") has a
> superscript "1" but there are no footnotes.
> 
> So, er, what hardware are you actually planning to buy?
> 
> Also, "10 more Squid/apache/memcached servers ordered on 14 January
> 2005. Shipped on 1 Feb with estimated delivery 8 Feb
> Delivered. Awaiting connection and setup. Likely to take several days
> for each step. JamesDay 04:24 Feb 9, 2005 (CET)"
> 
> Are these servers up?