[Wikipedia-l] Day 4 Fund Drive Report

Wed Feb 23 04:54:47 UTC 2005

"Continuate cosi!" - Ivan Sassi
"Vivent les systèmes libres!" - Martijn Coppoolse
"Für eine tolles Projetk" - anon
"Wikipedia ist eines der aktuellsten Nachschlagewerke." - Tobias Maurus
"Kostenlos ist klasse. Aber es sollte nicht umsonst sein." - Andre Versuemer
"Please don't go with google. - keep up the great work! Don't go with
google please, stay independant!" - anon
"und ein klares NEIN gegen Studiengebuehren" - Peer Johannes
"Je serais trop malheureux de voir une telle entreprise faillir ou
tomber en de mauvaises mains." - Benjamin Guillemain d'Echon
"Ánimo, es un gran proyecto. ¡El conocimiento debe ser libre!" - anon
"Seguir adelante con este inmenso proyecto..." - Josep Penella Sala
"Don't move to Google!" - anonymous Polish donor
"Wikipedia rulez. it:"Come sarebbe il mondo senza Wikipedia?"" - anon
"Für eine der besten Ideen des Informationszeitalters" - Michael Schmitz

And, as yesterday, lots of "wieder so"s.

Mark

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:05:52 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer
<maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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 18.34% of total funds collected so far
> ($35,904.88 ; 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).
> 
> 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
>                                    $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     1150.4       $909.39     2.53%
> CAD     1571.01    $1,272.99     3.55%
> EUR     9926.89   $12,976.44    36.14%
> GBP     1952.46    $3,705.39    10.32%
> JPY     82302.58     $780.15     2.17%
> USD     15833.85  $15,833.85    44.10%
> PayPal total:     $35,478.19
> 
> Moneybookers:
>                      $426.69     1.19%
> 
> GRAND TOTAL       $35,904.88    100.00%
> 
> % toward goal         47.87%
> 
> 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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