*bump* Just wondered whether anyone had been able to look in more detail at what the legal/data protection barriers to releasing statistics broken down by country are?
I'd be particularly interested to see how WMF is doing at securing repeat donations and tax-efficient donations from the UK, as I just received an appeal email with a link to a form that was not really optimised to do either (generally speaking if someone is being asked for a £10 one-off gift, asking them for a £10 monthly gift doesn't get many monthly gifts....) Chris On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can understand that if there are countries with very small numbers of > donors you wouldn't want to give country-by-country breakdowns. But > national charities report on how much money they raise all the time without > any legal barriers, so I doubt there can be barriers to WMF reporting by > country for most countries.... > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:42 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > >> Joseph Seddon wrote: >> >Lodewijk: So just as last year, fundraising totals have been posted by >> >region but there is currently no public data for donations from each >> >country. It's felt that the regional breakdown at least provides a >> >compromise between providing a semi-decent view of where our donations >> >come from while at the same time respecting privacy and other legal >> >reasons that is associated with releasing country level data. >> >> Huh? Like Rupert, I find this comment very confusing. What specific >> privacy and legal reasons are there for not providing a per-country >> breakdown of donations? >> >> MZMcBride >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >> i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
