It's clear that the million dollars do have to fit in somewhere that month! One possible explanation would be that finance processed a bunch of offline income at that time - not just the single Sloan grant, but also other individual non-banner donations (eg a month's worth of people sending in cheques). This would explain a blip over a few days without any direct correlation to the banners.
This is speculation, though - you'd have to comb through the daily accounts to be sure. Andrew. On 26 November 2013 09:12, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > If October 4th and/or 22nd had large donations because of one-time events > instead of regular donation appeal changes, why are they both bracketed by > vastly abnormally successful previous and subsequent days? > > > On Monday, November 25, 2013, James Salsman wrote: > >> P.S. As the referenced attachment doesn't make it through to the >> archives or digests, there is a copy of the fundraising data graph at: >> http://i.imgur.com/MkXIW4J.png >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:51 PM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Megan, >> > >> > Per the attached graph of the >> > https://frdata.wikimedia.org/yeardata-day-vs-sum.csv >> > data, your announced October 4th fundraising test on 100% of anonymous >> > users was anticlimactic. But what the heck did you do on September 2nd >> > and October 22nd, and would you please do that every day? Even if it >> > falls off at the same rate as the July test, that still means you >> > could produce an endowment sufficient to do away with fundraising at >> > current spending levels in less than eight months. >> > >> > Best regards, >> > James Salsman >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
