Comment Re:Low turnout? Shortfall? (Score 1) 444
Since that fund raising drive is now $50k above the budget shortfall, it's not a shortfall anymore. The present $200k raised in the fund drive is about twice what was raised by the same drive in February last year...
The shortfall was for Q4 of 2005. The current drive aims to get rid of that shortfall and put us in a good position for Q1 of 2006. That proposed budget, so far, is well above $500,000 and may need to be cut pending the outcome of this drive. Either way, we will still need to have another fund drive later this quarter to get rid of this quarter's shortfall and put us in a good position at the start of next quarter. Hopefully some large percentage of the huge increase in people using Wikipedia in the last month will have come to love Wikipedia enough by then to donate.
BTW, I'm Daniel Mayer.