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

Tue Nov 25 19:35:09 UTC 2008

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Przykuta <przykuta at o2.pl> 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.
> >
> > Erik Zachte
> >
>
> So, Obama has won election in the USA, people are more happy (maybe not
> only part of people in USA) - they want to pay for that ;)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_altruism
>
> they can't pay to Obama and find other ways to pay for this (their)
> victory. If you are happy you are able to give more.
>
> Maybe :)
>
> In 2007 after 2 weeks banner has been changed.
>
> przykuta
>

Great theory for 2008, except for the whole economy is screwed,
high employment, mortgage foreclosure and general "nobody has
any money to spare" thing.

-Chad