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.uk>wrote: > 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>