Archive:Fund drives/2005/Q4/Day 12
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Tuesday 27 December
A total of 293 donations were made through PayPal on Day 12, yielding the equivalent of $8,333.09 USD; an increase of $2520 over Day 11. The average donation this day was $28.44.
A total of about $37.62 was donated through MoneyBookers since the last update, bringing that total to $810.30. Dexia donations total €276 ($322.26) via 12 donations.
- Day total: $8,692.97
Breakdown of Day 12 PayPal donations:
AUD 138.84 (104.20 USD) CAD 369.82 (304.33 USD) EUR 1,652.61 (2,007.41 USD) GBP 196.25 (351.94 USD) JPY 49,128.00 (443.87 USD) USD 5,121.35 Total 8,333.09 USD
Copied from: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/2005q4/index.php/2005-12-27/report/
Special thanks to those who gave large donations
An anonymous donor gave the largest donation on this day; $500 USD. Denis Bider gave $365.24, the second highest amount. There were also many donors who gave the equivalent of about $100 or more (listed in no particular order); Emil Vlad, Roberta W. Orr, David Tam, John Gerbracht, Dwayne Pelletier, S Page, Reg Handford, Dallan Quass, and 11 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/2005-12-27/detail/
- "Wikepedia is the most uesful site next to Google" by anonymous
- "les autres sources de savoir sont toues en train de devenir payantes" by anonymous
- "Macht weiter so! Es ist garnicht so einfach ohne Bezahlung richtige Informationen zu bekommen." by Peter Hammerl
- "Because I know of no better place online" by anonymous
- "To the most important WWW project ever. Well thought and well made" by anonymous
- "If I have a question or an problem - Wikiedia is the solution!! Yes this is the best of the web!!" by Andreas Galster
- "Il gesto e' piccolo ma trovo giusta dare una mano penso che anche una piccola offerta sia utile speriamo che diventi sempre migliore .Continuate cosi'." by alessandro motta
- "Yeah, keep it going, keep it coming ! Support a great cause!" by Iain Davidson
- "THE best online source of knowledge; unsurpassed in quality and content!!" by Roberta W. Orr
- "Here's to the only medium that lets me fix other people's mistakes immediately." by denis bider
- "The technical information available on this site is incredibly thorough and useful." by Randall Huggins
- "Wikipedia makes boring school assignments so easy!" by Marcus Kaplan
- "It's wonderful to be able to enjoy such quality information in such a clean free way. Thank you all!" by anonymous
- "Roll out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki !" by S Page
- "Happy to support this excellent project. You are fundamentally changing the way the world gets its information. : )" by anonymous
- "One of the greatest sites ever. Wikipedia is the first place I go to learn about something." by Jonathan Ryan
- "This may be the best thing ever." by Jason Fialkoff
Some of my personal favorites:
- "Wikipedia is better than corn chips, and I really like corn chips." by Chris Kilgour
- "Give until it hurts. That is the only way to free knowlege" by Tarek Fatah
- "Wikipedia is to the 21st Century what the library of Alexandria was to antiquity" by anonymous
- "Once we dreamed The Net would put knowledge at our fingertips. Now, finally, it's true." by Joe Moross
- "Worth so much more than I could ever give..." by John Eubank
- "Together we can build something great." by anonymous
- "Love this thing" by Hiver F Ambroise
-- Daniel Mayer
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