Hi Seddon, I can understand a few anomalies where people give when they don't have funds to cover it, and for a difference between estimated exchange rates and the actual exchange rate that applied when the transaction was processed (currencies float and are quite capable of moving between the moment you are aware of a donation and the moment it is converted into one of the currencies you bank in). But I'd expect such anomalies to be a tiny fraction of a percent. OK one of these days we will have a record breaking donation day in a currency that then devalues by half before we convert that money into dollars, but I don't recall any spectacular devaluations in the last two weeks.
Is it worth checking to see why these numbers in the frdata dump are only a rough guide? If its something as innocent as our estimates still working on say 2012 currency conversions and the actual currency conversions are based on the day rate, then meh. But if one set of figures is gross before credit card and other transaction costs and the other figures are net, or one set assumed a UK Gift Aid sign up as high as Wikimedia UK could have got and the reality was much lower, then I'd be alarmed at such a difference. Jonathan > > > Hey Andreas > > > > > > A very quick email just noting I don't know the method by which > > > that > > frdata > > > dump is created (its very old and not maintained) but it would > > > seem > that > > > numbers in the frdata dump are only useful as a rough guide. > > > > > > We are basing our numbers on internal accounting figures which is > > > more representative of the actual cash flow since it is more > > > closely based > on > > > actual cleared payments. > > > > > > Seddon _______________________________________________ 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>
