2011 appeals for money Options

[thekohser]

I see that the newest WMF appeal is an attempt to appeal to wankers by illustrating the thoughts of a jagoff.

No mention of the fact that 53 cents of every donated dollar will go to things other than the Foundation's mission-fulfilling program services.

[thekohser]

Anybody know how the current fundraiser is actually doing? The Foundation doesn't seem to have generated any reports on it yet, or else I'm looking for stats in all the wrong places.

[thekohser]

Anybody know how the current fundraiser is actually doing? The Foundation doesn't seem to have generated any reports on it yet, or else I'm looking for stats in all the wrong places.

It appears that if you want to find out how much the WMF is raking in this year, you would go here. Of course, neither of those reports provides any value to the reader whatsoever, given that each of them returns the following message:

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So, apparently, our long-haired smiley-face code developer Brandon Harris is also sort of responsible for breaking the fundraiser's statistical reports, thanks to his celebrity moment on Reddit.

[mbz1]

So, apparently, our long-haired smiley-face code developer Brandon Harris is also sort of responsible for breaking the fundraiser's statistical reports, thanks to his celebrity moment on Reddit.

Actually our "our long-haired smiley-face code developer" was compared to Rasputin

Oh Wikipedia programmer Brandon Harris, how we’ve become accustomed to your glaring visage, all but commanding us to donate money to Wikipedia with the wild hair and crazy eyes of a modern day Rasputin.

and now you could see him randomly at any page that has nothing to do with wikipedia.

Simply install the ProgrammerAppeal extension and wait for Harris to randomly pop up on your browser. It’s like that time a strung-out metalhead kept following you after the Iron Maiden concert, except this time it’s on the internet.