Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

2016-12-22 Thread James Heilman
I second that. Thank you Lisa you and your team's amazing work :-) James On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Anders Wennersten wrote: > Thanks for this info and decision! > > And very many thanks to you and your team making such a marvellous job > with the fundraising.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

2016-12-22 Thread Anders Wennersten
Thanks for this info and decision! And very many thanks to you and your team making such a marvellous job with the fundraising. We are not only reaching our goal in record time, but also getting very good press for the professionalism for the the campaign and its messages Anders Den

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

2016-12-22 Thread Lisa Gruwell
Hi All- Just a quick update on this: We concluded the English-language banner campaign on Monday (12/19) – at the three week point of the campaign. This is the shortest campaign in recent memory. We were able to reach the goal and raise some extra funds for these initiatives and the endowment

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

2016-12-17 Thread Sam Klein
Lisa & Jaime - Congratulations to all on a fast campaign. Is this the fastest time-to-goal on record? This is a season in which neutrality and genuineness are precious commodities. No surprise that many people I know have given more than usual to projects such as ours. I hope you can

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

2016-12-17 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
And here: https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/5ik9zc/wikimedia_has_more_money_than_it_knows_what_to_do/ On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 7:14 PM, carl hansen wrote: > also being discussed at > https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/12/16/1631223/ >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

2016-12-17 Thread carl hansen
also being discussed at https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/12/16/1631223/wikipedia-exceeds-fundraising-target-but-continues-asking-for-more-money fyi ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

2016-12-17 Thread Pine W
ould NOT imply >> that you would stop at the target. >> Cheers, >> Peter >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On >> Behalf Of Lisa Gruwell >> Sent: Friday, 16 December 2016 8:05 PM

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

2016-12-16 Thread Anders Wennersten
] On Behalf Of Lisa Gruwell Sent: Friday, 16 December 2016 8:05 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update Hi everyone, As most of you know, we run our English-language online fundraiser on Wikipedia every year in December. It’s our biggest fundraiser of the year

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

2016-12-16 Thread Peter Southwood
Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update Hi everyone, As most of you know, we run our English-language online fundraiser on Wikipedia every year in December. It’s our biggest fundraiser of the year. During this time we raise the bulk of funds to support our operating budget

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

2016-12-16 Thread Michael Peel
Hi Lisa, Thanks for the update - it's great to hear that the target has been achieved so quickly! Continuing the English fundraiser as part of reaching the global fundraising target makes sense to me. Continuing the fundraiser after the global target has been reached is rather more concerning

[Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

2016-12-16 Thread Lisa Gruwell
Hi everyone, As most of you know, we run our English-language online fundraiser on Wikipedia every year in December. It’s our biggest fundraiser of the year. During this time we raise the bulk of funds to support our operating budget to support the projects, fund community efforts around the