Did you see this April's Fool Day comic on xkcd, with an interactivly
growing dog: The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the
Wikimedia Foundation via this link.
http://xkcd.org/
Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to WMF through
this comic? I see that there is a
On 04/01/2013 03:22 PM, Manuel Schneider wrote:
Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to WMF through
this comic? I see that there is a special campaign reference in the
donation link but how can it fetch the amount?
It is:
http://samarium.wikimedia.org/
My understanding is
On 4/1/2013 12:22 PM, Manuel Schneider wrote:
Did you see this April's Fool Day comic on xkcd, with an interactivly
growing dog: The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the
Wikimedia Foundation via this link.
http://xkcd.org/
Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to
Thanks Marc and Michael!
Am 01.04.2013 21:28, schrieb Marc A. Pelletier:
http://samarium.wikimedia.org/
My understanding is that this was done in collaboration with Randall,
but it has obvious general applicability.
thanks for this link, I didn't know about this site and data. This is
very
Heh, the CSV's have some amusing, umm. campaign names in them...
Tom
On 1 April 2013 20:42, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.chwrote:
Thanks Marc and Michael!
Am 01.04.2013 21:28, schrieb Marc A. Pelletier:
http://samarium.wikimedia.org/
My understanding is that this was
Manuel Schneider, 01/04/2013 21:42:
Thanks Marc and Michael!
Am 01.04.2013 21:28, schrieb Marc A. Pelletier:
http://samarium.wikimedia.org/
My understanding is that this was done in collaboration with Randall,
but it has obvious general applicability.
thanks for this link, I didn't know
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] xkcd collecting donations for WMF?
Heh, the CSV's have some amusing, umm. campaign names in them...
Tom
On 1 April 2013 20:42, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.chwrote:
Thanks Marc and Michael!
Am
Am 01.04.2013 22:06, schrieb Benoit Landry:
Campaign unfuckingknown, with the medium being spontaneous. Perhaps it is
some sort of error handler, when a donation comes from a source the system
cannot determine due to some glitch, it puts it there? ;)
maybe it is possible to set your own
Campaign unfuckingknown, with the medium being spontaneous.
The amusing entries are either people fuzzing us; or us testing. There's
very little validation of the campaign tracking fields. What comes into the
system goes out of the system. We probably should clean the data up a
little better
As a side note, the first panel of the comic also openly calls its readers
to edit war over certain articles.
On 1 April 2013 20:22, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.chwrote:
Did you see this April's Fool Day comic on xkcd, with an interactivly
growing dog: The dog gains a pound
Not uncommon for Xkcd :p
Although the article being used is changing so rapidly that it's unlikely
to cause much disruption.
On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv
files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars daily???
:s
Tom
On Monday,
On an unrelated note; I can't make head nor tails of some of those csv
files... Are we really collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars daily???
Depends on the day :p We had a 2 million dollar day when we opened the
floodgates in the US, UK, CA, AU, and NZ (We had five; I think NZ was the
Hi, is there any directory or file or whatever with the codes for
campaigns?
Nope; not yet. I'll have to get Zack and Megan to write something up.
I see only codes without sense.
I feel there's a matrix joke here that I don't want to make.
~Matt Walker
Wikimedia Foundation
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