BTW, reading the comments on the donations shows nicely the main motivation for donating suddenly:
* Against censorship * Against the former Stasi * To benefit the growth of free knowledge Ian On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Ian A. Holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have any statistics, but I would say the http://www.wikipedia.deis > the most common way of accessing Wikipedia in Germany. > > Ian > [[User:Poeloq]] > > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> > 26 thousand Euro in the last 40 hours. Normal figures appear to be >> > 3000 EUR per day. That's quite impressive. I wonder whether there is >> > an actual net gain. >> >> Do we have statistics on how many people actually access the German >> Wikipedia via the wikipedia.de domain? If it's not many, then there's >> really no loss (although most of the donations are probably coming >> from people seeing the temporary page, so there must be some people >> using it!). I can't see how it could be enough to make it a net loss >> overall - people can still find the site via google, etc., and the >> page they've put up to replace the forwarding includes the URL anyway >> (although they've avoided making it a link, for obvious reasons, but >> hopefully most readers know what to do with a plain text URL!). >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
