What would be nice to have would be a not-overly-detailed summary of how payment processing/fundraising was done 5 years ago, and how it is being done this year (and in the future) with new payment processing, FDC, etc. Because frankly, I don't have a clue anymore.
Dan Rosenthal On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Philippe Beaudette <phili...@wikimedia.org > wrote: > 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 > > phili...@wikimedia.org > > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:21 AM, K. Peachey <p858sn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Zack Exley <zex...@wikimedia.org> > 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 > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l