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Thomas Dalton wrote:
> According to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:ContributionStatistics,
> the WMF has received 4 donations, one for nearly $250k, in a currency
> that doesn't seem to exist ("STO"). Does anyone know what that is
> supposed to mean?
>
STO as in "stocks"?

--Michael Snow

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Unless my memory makes things up (which it occasionally does), those are
donations in stocks (as in stock exchange).

2009/4/21 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com>

> According to
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:ContributionStatistics,
> the WMF has received 4 donations, one for nearly $250k, in a currency
> that doesn't seem to exist ("STO"). Does anyone know what that is
> supposed to mean?
>
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Michael Snow <wikipedia@verizon.net> wrote:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> According to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:ContributionStatistics,
>> the WMF has received 4 donations, one for nearly $250k, in a currency
>> that doesn't seem to exist ("STO"). Does anyone know what that is
>> supposed to mean?
>>
> STO as in "stocks"?
>

I'm pretty sure that's what it is, but Rand is cc'ed to confirm. :-)

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2009/4/21 Michael Snow <wikipedia@verizon.net>:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> According to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:ContributionStatistics,
>> the WMF has received 4 donations, one for nearly $250k, in a currency
>> that doesn't seem to exist ("STO"). Does anyone know what that is
>> supposed to mean?
>>
> STO as in "stocks"?

Wow, lots of very prompt responses, thank you all! "Stocks" is a very
plausible answer - I'll blame my failure to guess that on them being
called "shares" in British English.

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