matanya moses wrote:
tl;dr: The FDC’s recommendations for this round of the
APG grant
requests have now been published at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/14803740
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) meets twice a year to help
make decisions about how to effectively allocate movement funds to
achieve the Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. [1] We
met for four days last week in San Francisco to review 11 proposals
submitted for this round of funding. [2]
[...]
This round, the eleven proposals came from ten chapters and one
thematic organisation, totaling requests of approximately $3.8 million
USD. Ten affiliates were returning to the APG program, and one was a
new applicant. This round, one organisation requested a restricted
grant to support one particular program. All other grant requests were
for general funding.
Hi.
Apologies if these questions have already been asked/answered elsewhere, I
did try to skim this thread, the Meta-Wiki page, and its talk page first.
The Wikimedia Foundation has a section under "Organisation-specific
remarks", but isn't included in the "Funding recommendations" chart
and
there's no amount requested, amount allocated, or proposal listed for the
Wikimedia Foundation. Why is that?
If Wikimedia Deutschland is required to separate out costs for Wikidata,
does that mean that the Wikimedia Foundation is required to split out
costs for Wikipedia and its other projects? I'd be quite curious to know
how much money is being spent by the Wikimedia Foundation on Wiktionary or
Wikinews or Wikiversity.
The report includes this note:
The FDC is appalled by the closed way that the WMF has
undertaken both
strategic and annual planning, and the WMF’s approach to budget
transparency (or lack thereof).
Sort of inline with the first question, but perhaps more direct: what
power does the Funds Dissemination Committee have over the amount of donor
money allocated toward the Wikimedia Foundation? Can the FDC only admonish
the organization, but not actually withhold funds?
MZMcBride