"The WCA is lead by the council, who are all volunteers. They will be supported by staff, but the council are in charge."
I would love to have my Wikipedia work supported by staff too. Who is paying for said staff? How much are they projected to cost? In fact I would simply like some of the travel costs and accommodations for those involved in my Wikipedia projects covered. I am happy to cover my own costs.
We have a second draft budget here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Draft_budget_2... at more than $300,000
We have $42,000 going to a translator / PR person? I have managed to find translators for more than 30 languages which have translated more than 1 million words in 2012 as part of this project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task... Most translation on Wikipedia is done by volunteers. Why is translation for this organization deem more important than say for key medical diseases?
I see that in the second draft the funding for the SG has decreased from 96000 euro to 60000 euro. I think the number I am looking for is around zero, we are an organization run on volunteers. The World Health Organization is willing to have a Wikipedian in Residence. I have found someone who will do it for free / the experience of working at the WHO but he needs some help covering his expenses. The person is willing to work full time to do out reach to 600 interns at the WHO who are usually young leaders in their respective medical communities from around the world.
With respect to the law firm costs of $30,000. That is a lot for supporting collaboration between chapters. With respect to $10,000 for a chapters network / skype? But skype is free and we already have meta. It is inexpensive to set up a website.