Please excuse the spellchecker being too helpful. *Wikimania* accounting,
not Wikimedia accounting.
Pine
On Aug 28, 2015 6:36 AM, "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My thinking is that if WMDE can produce an accounting
for a major event's
expenses to the degree to which they have visibility (this excludes
chapter-funded travel costs, and WMF and affiliate staff compensation) in a
few months, then at least that level of detail should be expected for
Wikimedia accounting within, say, 6 months after the event. Creating a
standardized framework for large event expense reporting might be a good
step. Given WMDE's success, perhaps WMF could build off of their framework
to create a shared framework for public reporting of financial expenses for
all major WMF funded events (All-staff and hackathons included).
Pine
On Aug 24, 2015 9:37 AM, "Stuart Prior" <stuartpriorwiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Concur with Lodewijk, additionally in terms of number of attendees and
> the amount of partner organisations and vendors involved, it's an entirely
> different scale.
>
> Wikimedia Conference is a staffed organisation running a relatively
> simple event on their home-turf.
> Wikimania is a mix of volunteers and the Foundation organising an
> international event which has changing factors year on year.
> Well done for WMDE being so prompt with the accounts, but I'm not sure
> it's a methodology for budgeting & accounting which accounts for the
> difference in the time it takes to produce accounts.
> More the relative scale of and the resources applied to each event.
>
> Best
> Stuart
> User:Battleofalma
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
> wrote:
>
>> A quick peek suggests that these are the costs for Wikimedia
>> Deutschland, not for the movement. It does not include the
>> travel/accommodation/staff costs of all the chapters that funded themselves
>> (or even where volunteers funded themselves). This should all be included
>> to give a fair picture.
>>
>> Best,
>> Lodewijk
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for bringing up the subject of financial accounting for major
>>> events. I would just like to note that our colleagues at Wikimedia
>>> Deutschland who hosted Wikimedia Conference 2015 published an accounting of
>>> that conference's finances just a few months after the conference (
>>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Budget_and_financ…).
>>> Perhaps other events could use a similar method for budgeting and
>>> accounting so that other reports are also produced in a timely manner.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Pine
>>> On Aug 23, 2015 8:04 AM, "Itzik - Wikimedia Israel" <
>>> itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is not my first email about this issue, but I really think it's
>>>> really important. Wikimania is the highest expense for our movement.
From
>>>> the conference production cost, WMF scholarships, chapter scholarships
and
>>>> WMF and chapters delegations - amounts that is almost one million
dollar,
>>>> if not more.
>>>>
>>>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wikimania 2012-2013 budgets were been published but still consider as
>>>> "draft":
>>>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Budget
>>>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Budget
>>>>
>>>> If the conference organization leader can be please approve this
>>>> numbers and remove the draft template - it will be great.
>>>>
>>>> WMCH, Affcom, WMAR and WMDE are welcome to complete their information
>>>> regarding their delegations and scholarships given by them.
>>>>
>>>> For 2014 - we don't have any data. Not conference budget, not
>>>> scholarships and not chapters numbers. Edward - your help will be
welcome.
>>>> I personally asked my ED to complete the information for WMIL, and I
>>>> welcome others to do so as well.
>>>>
>>>> Ellie and the Wikimania committee - there is something we can do in
>>>> order to take care for this pages to be update yearly?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you everyone!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Regards,Itzik Edri*
>>>> Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel
>>>> +972-(0)-54-5878078 |
http://www.wikimedia.org.il
>>>> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the
>>>> sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment!
>>>>
>>>>
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