[Foundation-l] 2008 Annual Fundraiser - Going into Phase 2

Tue Nov 25 08:25:55 UTC 2008

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Erik Zachte <erikzachte at infodisiac.com> wrote:
>> For those who haven't seen it yet:
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics
>
> Very neat!
>
> Looking at tab 2 (Number of contributions):
> In 2007 from day 14 and onwards the number of gifts per day more than
> doubled.
> Is it known why that happened? Just curious.

That is the transition from the "ugly pink box" to the "people meter".
 Donations doubled because a much better donation banner was put in
place at that time.

-Robert Rohde