Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

2013-11-29 Thread Andrew Gray
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 cheq

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

2013-11-28 Thread James Salsman
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/Fund

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

2013-11-25 Thread Matthew Walker
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 t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

2013-11-25 Thread Andrew Gray
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 dis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

2013-11-25 Thread James Salsman
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 wrote: > Hi Megan, > > Per the attached graph of the > https://frdata.wikimedia.or