[Wikipedia-l] Day 5 Fund Drive Report

Wed Feb 23 21:42:33 UTC 2005

"Für ein freies Internet! Danke an alle Schreiberlinge!" - Stefan Noll
"Wissen ist Macht, Unwissenheit ein Segen nur manchmal. Vielen Dank
für Eure Arbeit Jungs und Maedels! Geniale Arbeit die Ihr da leistet!
Gruss crazy Oleg" - Oleg Savschouk
"Für ein lohnenswertes Projekt, auch wenn es einige Macken hat." -
Valentin Abgottspon
"Wiki ist die meist zitierte Quelle meiner FBA. Ohne euch hätte ich
meine Matura nicht schaffen können. Wissen ist Macht! Freies Wissen
stärkt die Demokratie! Leider kann ein Schüler nicht mehr geb" - Anon

(only german today? hmm)

Mark

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:43:07 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer
<maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Day 5 (Tuesday 22 February eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not
> available in UTC) we made $6,704.38 (USD equivalent) through PayPal (completed
> payments only; no updates available for other sources at this time). This is a
> increase of 6.63% from Day 4 and represents 16.21% of total funds collected so
> far ($$41,352.44 ; only counting full days) and 8.94% of our goal ($75,000).
> 
> All Wikimedia sites were either down or slow and read-only for most of the day.
> 
> Day 5                           Day 4 comparison
> Breakdown:
> PayPal          USD equiv       USD equiv       %change
> AUD       42.22      $33.37        $23.46        42.25%
> CAD      287.30     $232.80       $608.01       -61.71%
> EUR      953.10   $2,553.09     $1,844.16        38.44%
> GBP      313.77    $595.47        $598.17        -0.45%
> JPY     13792      $130.73         $76.61        70.65%
> USD     3158.91  $3,158.91      $3,137.11         0.69%
> PayPal total:    $6,704.38      $6,287.52         6.63%
> 
> MoneyBookers
>                 no data             $0.00       -na-
> 
>         TOTAL   $6,704.38       $6,287.52       6.63%
> 
> NOTE: Pending transactions are also included in the below numbers (some of them
> will likely turn out to be canceled)
> 
> Grand totals so far (only counting complete days)
> 
> PayPal             USD equiv    %GrandTotal
> AUD      1197.00     $946.23     2.29%
> CAD      1972.57   $1,598.37     3.87%
> EUR     11343.52  $14,828.25    35.86%
> GBP      1951.24   $3,703.06     8.95%
> JPY     104096       $986.73     2.39%
> USD     18863.11  $18,863.11    45.62%
> PayPal total:     $40,925.75
> 
> Moneybookers:
>                     $426.69     1.03%
> 
> GRAND TOTAL      $41,352.44     100.00%
> 
> % toward goal       55.14%
> 
> For the most recent grand total and other details visit
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1
> 
> Some selected comments from Day 5:
> See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_5
> 
> "The best site to arise from the internet: free access to all human knowledge"
> by Raymond Hill
> 
> "Wikipedia is my homepage. I learn something new everyday." by Anonymous
> 
> "Knowledge should be free, and that is what Wikipedia is about!" by Hendrik
> Richter
> 
> "I wikipedia now instead of google my searches." by Michael Patronik
> 
> "as an international student in sweden where books are expensive, this free
> library is wondeful" by Florian Gruenke
> 
> "just a small token of appreciation for SUCH a wonderful group of resources" by
> Anonymous
> 
> "Wikipedia is the most informative website I have ever been to" by Timothy
> Oster
> 
> "Hopefully this can help prevent future outages! Keep up the great work, from
> everyone at tp.org!" by Joseph Moran
> 
> "Wikimedia is entertaining, reliable and important. Thank you." by Anonymous
> 
> "Thanks Wikipedia. You're my favourite website." by Oliver Kiehl
> 
> "Nice work to all involved behind the scenes!" by Anonymous
> 
> "Wikipedia is a shining example of the power and durability of the original
> Internet spirit: preserving and extending the commons." by Fergus O'Reilly
> 
> "image is nothing, thirst for knowledge is everything" by Anonymous
> 
> "Wikimedia projects: the 8th wonder of the world, thanks !" by Francois Schnell
> 
> "I'd rather read Wikipedia than my college text books." by William Rose
> 
> Some of my favorites:
> 
> "i just found this place out! and hell yes i'll support this!" by Don Nguyen
> 
> "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true
> liberty." by Izaro Lopez-Garcia
> 
> "You guys rock. We use MediaWiki software for our wiki and love it. Thanks for
> making our dream project possible." by Jack Herrick
> 
> "If you use it, and you can afford it, you SHOULD pay for it." by Tucker Lentz
> 
> "Brilliant" by Anonymous
> 
> Daniel Mayer,
> Wikimedia CFO
> 
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