I'd actually like to clarify something about the way fundraisers work, because it may not be readily apparent to everyone.... remember that the date that the goal is "hit" is always fuzzy, because we actually don't know it until it's viewed in retrospect. There's money that comes in on a date that isn't actually posted until later (for instance, check transactions, which aren't posted the day they're received or transactions from payment processors that may report on a 24 hour delay - I don't know if there are any of these right now, but there used to be - or something similar).
So you actually don't know what date you "hit" the mark until you're quite a bit farther down the line. Systems are markedly better this year than ever before, but I remember the year that I worked the fundraiser, we were a week or more behind on posting checks. That's just a manpower issue. So while it's easy to talk about the "date" as though there's a magic total board, there's not. It's mostly good guesswork by Zack, his team, and the payment processing chapters in approximating when it happens. pb ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 [email protected] On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:21 AM, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Zack Exley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the encouragement! We're really sorry that this decision came > > so close to the fundraiser. But I think it's necessary and is going to > make > > things so much better. I'm hoping that we can get the fundraiser down to > > something like 30 days this year (from 46 last year) > > Is that 46 day figure when the goal was reached and exceeded or when > they were turned off, Since last year (and a few others if i'm not > mistaken) those were two different dates. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
