Re: [Wikimedia-l] Early Update - Fundraising - Wikimedia-l
It's mostly the fact that it's a low priority dump, isn't maintained actively, some of the queries used to produce it are old and probably need updating and some of them are definitely broken (the refund sheet certainly is). It includes some major gifts donations (which we don't include in our campaign target for online fundraising), but almost certainly not others. So all in all it just needs an overhaul (the YTD sheet only includes $59,000,000 for the last calendar year which is some $18,000,000 short.
Something to look into.
Seddon On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:36 AM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequers@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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