Archive:Fund drives/2005/Q4/Day 10
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Sunday 25 December
A total of 234 donations were made through PayPal on Day 10, yielding the equivalent of $7,167.94 USD. The average donation that day was $30.63.
- Day total: $7,167.94
Breakdown of Day 10 PayPal donations:
AUD 143.20 (107.47 USD) CAD 247.28 (203.49 USD) EUR 1,174.48 (1,426.63 USD) GBP 132.56 (237.72 USD) JPY 42,112.00 (380.48 USD) USD 4,812.15 Total 7,167.94 USD
Copied from: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-25/report/
Special thanks to those who gave large donations
There was a tie for the largest donation made this day; both Larry Skarpness Jr and K J Raymond Wong gave $500 USD. There were also many donors who gave the equivalent of about $100 or more (listed in no particular order); Marcel Duchamp, Daniel Stark, Marco Klaey, Nathan Oravetz, Thomas Azlin, Jack Child, David Harding, and 14 anonymous donors.
- Note: While large donations are great, it should be noted that about 70% of all the money donated to the Wikimedia Foundation comes from donations that are the equivalent of $50 or less and the average donation is about $25.
Selected donor comments
Let's all thank everybody who donated on this day by reading their comments.
- Full listing at: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-25/detail/
- "Wikipedia is the best information resource on the net!" by David Huston
- "Thank you for such a great resource! It's refreshing to see the internet being put to use to serve humanity in a positive way. Keep up the great work!" by anonymous
- "My only wish is for Wikipedia to remain impartial and free from conflict of interests." by K J RAYMOND WONG
- "Ein bisschen Geld für eine große Sache!" by Uwe Schröder
- "This is an amazing concept...all of the world's information in one place" by Hanna Arthur
- "What I have gained from Wikipedia is much more than this donation..." by anonymous
- "Por que el conocimiento sea de todos y para todos." by Eugenio de la Torre Domingo
- "One of the best things happening on Planet Earth right now" by ADRIAN LE GRAND
- "Thankyou to everyone who has contributed to this amazing project" by James Agnew
- "I recommend Wikipedia to my American University students, although I also require alternate sources. Keep up the good work." by Jack Child
- "Wikipedia is brilliant" by anonymous
- "I cannot thank everyone involved with Wikipedia enough.. this is truly one of the greatest ongoing human endeavours of our time.. We can make history,together!" by Matthew Barba
- "Best project in the world" by Juan Bautista Valdés Menéndez
- "Wikipedia forever!" by anonymous
Some of my personal favorites:
- "This is from my girlfriend Jennifer Marcotte who uses wikipedia too regularly to write her university papers." by Alexander Besant
- "Maybe Wikipedia is the first real route to unlocking information for those parts of the world were information is hard to get." by Ber Kessels
- "Amazing, like having a libary on my computer" by Charles Taber
- "The more you know, the more you know that you don't know anything. I once thought that I was the first to realize that. Happy holidays and a great new year to all. If I can do this then so can you." by Larry Skarpness Jr
- "If only I'd had wikipedia when I was a kid." by Danilo Campos
- "Only the educated are free. -- Epictetus" by Benjamin Oakes
-- Daniel Mayer
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