Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries
It's clear that the million dollars do have to fit in somewhere that month! One possible explanation would be that finance processed a bunch of offline income at that time - not just the single Sloan grant, but also other individual non-banner donations (eg a month's worth of people sending in cheques). This would explain a blip over a few days without any direct correlation to the banners. This is speculation, though - you'd have to comb through the daily accounts to be sure. Andrew. On 26 November 2013 09:12, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: If October 4th and/or 22nd had large donations because of one-time events instead of regular donation appeal changes, why are they both bracketed by vastly abnormally successful previous and subsequent days? On Monday, November 25, 2013, James Salsman wrote: P.S. As the referenced attachment doesn't make it through to the archives or digests, there is a copy of the fundraising data graph at: http://i.imgur.com/MkXIW4J.png On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:51 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Megan, Per the attached graph of the https://frdata.wikimedia.org/yeardata-day-vs-sum.csv data, your announced October 4th fundraising test on 100% of anonymous users was anticlimactic. But what the heck did you do on September 2nd and October 22nd, and would you please do that every day? Even if it falls off at the same rate as the July test, that still means you could produce an endowment sufficient to do away with fundraising at current spending levels in less than eight months. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries
Matthew Walker wrote: I have no information on what did or did not happen on any specific days Who does? I'm also very interested in July 30, when average donations peaked; Ref.: http://i.imgur.com/3oXk7jq.png I can't figure anything actually useful out from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013#July_.26_August_Update On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:12 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: If October 4th and/or 22nd had large donations because of one-time events instead of regular donation appeal changes, why are they both bracketed by vastly abnormally successful previous and subsequent days? On Monday, November 25, 2013, James Salsman wrote: P.S. As the referenced attachment doesn't make it through to the archives or digests, there is a copy of the fundraising data graph at: http://i.imgur.com/MkXIW4J.png On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:51 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Megan, Per the attached graph of the https://frdata.wikimedia.org/yeardata-day-vs-sum.csv data, your announced October 4th fundraising test on 100% of anonymous users was anticlimactic. But what the heck did you do on September 2nd and October 22nd, and would you please do that every day? Even if it falls off at the same rate as the July test, that still means you could produce an endowment sufficient to do away with fundraising at current spending levels in less than eight months. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries
Hi Megan, Per the attached graph of the https://frdata.wikimedia.org/yeardata-day-vs-sum.csv data, your announced October 4th fundraising test on 100% of anonymous users was anticlimactic. But what the heck did you do on September 2nd and October 22nd, and would you please do that every day? Even if it falls off at the same rate as the July test, that still means you could produce an endowment sufficient to do away with fundraising at current spending levels in less than eight months. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries
Megan can certainly correct me if I've got the wrong end of the stick, but I think these are probably once-off payments rather than the result of a good day of banner-based fundraising. The October report estimates $2.7m fundraising through the month, but the spreadsheet data totals $3.8m. The discrepancy is around a million dollars, and the monthly report mentions a $1m grant from the Sloan Foundation, which tallies nicely. I couldn't spot a specific grant for September, but there was a provisional estimate of approximately $2m, and the data totals $2.5m. The blip on 2/9 is about half a million dollars, roughly the same as the discrepancy, and I would not be surprised if this is again a large donation/grant. Sadly, daily Sloan grants are probably not a sustainable approach... A. On 25 November 2013 11:51, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Megan, Per the attached graph of the https://frdata.wikimedia.org/yeardata-day-vs-sum.csv data, your announced October 4th fundraising test on 100% of anonymous users was anticlimactic. But what the heck did you do on September 2nd and October 22nd, and would you please do that every day? Even if it falls off at the same rate as the July test, that still means you could produce an endowment sufficient to do away with fundraising at current spending levels in less than eight months. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries
I have no information on what did or did not happen on any specific days -- but I can say that the data on frdata.wikimedia.org is unfiltered -- e.g. it includes major gifts donations as well as online fundraising efforts. We used to filter out everyone above 10,000 $ USD, but I neglected to add the same filter for this data -- mostly because that really wasn't really a good filter. There are better ways to filter; but the best one I can think of off the top of my head I don't have bandwidth at this moment to implement. In and of itself not an issue, just an FYI, but I would also have to generate this and a filtered file because the filtered file would only be good for online fundraising which does not reveal the whole truth about how the WMF fundraises. ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote: Megan can certainly correct me if I've got the wrong end of the stick, but I think these are probably once-off payments rather than the result of a good day of banner-based fundraising. The October report estimates $2.7m fundraising through the month, but the spreadsheet data totals $3.8m. The discrepancy is around a million dollars, and the monthly report mentions a $1m grant from the Sloan Foundation, which tallies nicely. I couldn't spot a specific grant for September, but there was a provisional estimate of approximately $2m, and the data totals $2.5m. The blip on 2/9 is about half a million dollars, roughly the same as the discrepancy, and I would not be surprised if this is again a large donation/grant. Sadly, daily Sloan grants are probably not a sustainable approach... A. On 25 November 2013 11:51, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Megan, Per the attached graph of the https://frdata.wikimedia.org/yeardata-day-vs-sum.csv data, your announced October 4th fundraising test on 100% of anonymous users was anticlimactic. But what the heck did you do on September 2nd and October 22nd, and would you please do that every day? Even if it falls off at the same rate as the July test, that still means you could produce an endowment sufficient to do away with fundraising at current spending levels in less than eight months. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
