2009/3/13 Rand Montoya <[email protected]>: > The dumps are located here: http://download.wikipedia.org/fundraising/2008/ > > The main gift data files are 2008_Fundraiser.csv.gz. > The fields are date stamp, USD donation amount, original currency amount, > original currency, country of donation, & payment type > (paypal/check/cash/dexia/etc.).
Because this may have been lost in the high foundation-l traffic, I just want to underscore the significance of this data release. This allows anyone to find interesting patterns in the data: whether it's spikes from specific countries, correlations of donation amounts to the giving levels featured on the donation pages, effectiveness of sitenotices by country, etc. In short, this analysis can help us do a better job at appealing for support. Rand is working on pulling together information for a public report on the 2008-09 fundraiser. If you're working on any analysis based on these dumps, please add your project to this placeholder page so that work isn't duplicated: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2008/Report Thanks for any help :-) Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
