Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Zack Exley
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On Nov 26, 2012 5:15 PM, "Nathan" wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Zack Exley > wrote: > > > > > > > > This year we did something different and went up all over the world for > 24 > > > hours on Nov 15 as sort of a dress reh

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
On Nov 26, 2012 5:15 PM, "Nathan" wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Zack Exley wrote: > > > > > This year we did something different and went up all over the world for 24 > > hours on Nov 15 as sort of a dress rehearsal. That really helped us to > > identify a lot of little things to f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Zack Exley wrote: > > This year we did something different and went up all over the world for 24 > hours on Nov 15 as sort of a dress rehearsal. That really helped us to > identify a lot of little things to fix. It also brought in two million > dollars -- our big

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Zack Exley
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > This is an interesting idea, and makes a lot of sense. Non-English > fundraising hasn't really had the attention it needs in previous years (for > obvious reasons - it's more efficient to focus your attention where you can > achieve the most)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Zack Exley
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:09 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 26 November 2012 07:10, Zack Exley wrote: > > > We have some information on the fundraiser launch to share. We are still > > planning on launching Monday, November 26, but we're going to make a > change > > this year in the timing of cam

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Zack Exley
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:08 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 26 November 2012 07:10, Zack Exley wrote: > > > We're going to run this end of year campaign only in 5 countries (US, CA, > > GB, AU & NZ) and then spend three months meticulously localizing and > > translating (and testing for new purely

[Wikimedia-l] Chapter Reports Wikimedia Canada, January to April 2012

2012-11-26 Thread Benoit Rochon
Hello, Here are the reports for WMCA from January to April 2012. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Canada/January_-_April_2012 Best regards, Benoit Rochon Coordinator | Wikimedia Canada broc...@wikimedia.ca ___ Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
This is an interesting idea, and makes a lot of sense. Non-English fundraising hasn't really had the attention it needs in previous years (for obvious reasons - it's more efficient to focus your attention where you can achieve the most) and this should make a big difference. I'm curious, as you do

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Dan Rosenthal
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,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread David Gerard
On 26 November 2012 07:10, Zack Exley wrote: > We have some information on the fundraiser launch to share. We are still > planning on launching Monday, November 26, but we're going to make a change > this year in the timing of campaigns around the world. BTW, a blog post detailing this stuff w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread David Gerard
On 26 November 2012 07:10, Zack Exley wrote: > We're going to run this end of year campaign only in 5 countries (US, CA, > GB, AU & NZ) and then spend three months meticulously localizing and > translating (and testing for new purely local messages) before running the > global campaign in all oth

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Zack Exley 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 3

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Florence Devouard
Ok Thanks Flo On 11/26/12 9:22 AM, Zack Exley wrote: No, sorry, that was an oversight in my message. We will not run campaigns in those countries (FR, DE, CH) in April. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: On 11/26/12 8:10 AM, Zack Exley wrote: Hi all, We have some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Zack Exley
No, sorry, that was an oversight in my message. We will not run campaigns in those countries (FR, DE, CH) in April. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: > On 11/26/12 8:10 AM, Zack Exley wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We have some information on the fundraiser launch to share.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Florence Devouard
On 11/26/12 8:10 AM, Zack Exley wrote: Hi all, We have some information on the fundraiser launch to share. We are still planning on launching Monday, November 26, but we're going to make a change this year in the timing of campaigns around the world. Every year, as we get closer to the launch