We should all know that the Foundation raises MILLIONS. :) However, I think what Anthony doesn't understand is that money is used in many different ways. We have to pay for servers, maintenance, we have to pay the staff, we have to pay for the domain, we're currently giving away scholarships to Wikimania... there's a lot of stuff that that money goes to and there are a lot more places we would like send it if we had more money. :)
Casey Brown Cbrown1023
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Florence Devouard Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 10:14 AM To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [announcement] new staff member inbusinessdevelopment
Anthony wrote:
On 5/20/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023@comcast.net wrote:
You seriously do not understand the inner-workings of this organization.
We
do not have "millions of dollars" right now, we have enough to get by and probably some more, but we definitely do not have the large amount you
are
talking about.
I'm sorry if I implied that the WMF currently had "millions of dollars". The fact is I have no idea how much the WMF currently has, as it stopped regular disclosure of this information years ago and hasn't yet resumed doing so.
WMF is regularly disclosing information about the MILLIONS of dollars raised by donations.
Regularly is probably about every minute or so.
Please check http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/
There is history of donations since january 2006. Prior data may be found in audited financial statements for the past 3 years, available here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Finance_report
The donation website was set up end of 2006. It is a huge improvement over past reporting system.
Ant
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