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Day 4 Fund Drive Report (updated)
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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Re: Day 4 Fund Drive Report (updated) [ In reply to ]
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@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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