Hi and thank you for your input,
Please note that the WMF budget supports diversity in two ways :
_software and technical support, the most basic exemple being Mediawiki
which exists in a huge variety of languages
_grants to non-US projects, such a rapid grants and project grants.
Also, there is a lot of people left out of structures of power within the
US.
Le ven. 30 mars 2018 à 04:05, Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> a écrit :
Hi,
This seems to be an increase of $15 million USD in the WMF’s budget, with
a $0.2 USD million increase in the international Wikimedia budget (through
grants to chapters and other affiliates).
That goes against the movement direction of "As a social movement, we will
focus our efforts on the knowledge and communities that have been left out
by structures of power and privilege”. Why aren’t we increasing our
spending in the global south (through local affiliates) at the same rate
that we are increasing it in the US?
Thanks,
Mike
On 29 Mar 2018, at 17:42, Katherine Maher
<kmaher(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm delighted to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan for
FY18-19 is now on Meta[1].
This year, we have organized our efforts around three goals that focus on
making critical improvements to our systems and structures to ensure that
we’re better positioned for our coming work against the strategic
direction[2]. The Foundation’s goals for this year should not only move
us
closer to knowledge equity and service, but will
prepare us to execute
against the 3- to 5-year strategic plan which we intend to develop this
year in order to guide the Foundation’s work into the future.
As you’ll see, we’ve made some changes to the structure of this year’s
annual plan. This year’s plan is organized around three goals for the
Foundation’s work in the year to come. By restructuring the Annual Plan,
we
have written a plan for the whole Foundation,
rather than an aggregation
of plans from all of our departments and teams. In this sense, we’re
seeking to become a better-integrated institution, rather than a
collection
of teams and departments with disparate goals.
We’ve also reduced the overall length of the published Annual Plan. We
wanted to make sure that the focus and goals of our work don’t get lost
in
the details. Of course, we know that many
community members enjoy reading
the particulars of our planned work, so you can still access the details
of
departmental programs through links to their
descriptions on Meta or
MediaWiki.org. These links will provide interested readers with detailed
departmental programs, which describe the specific and detailed program
goals, impact and outcomes. This change does not sacrifice the depth and
rigor of our planning process, but rather, it is meant to keep the Annual
Plan lean and focused while allowing interested readers to dive deep into
the details.
Finally, we’ve expanded the planning framework we instituted last year
for
cross-departmental programs to all of our
programs across the Foundation.
This allows us to clearly link a program’s resources to outcomes and
measures. As such, we’ve presented the Annual Plan budget in terms of our
investments in the three defined goals rather than in terms of our
internal
organizational structure.
Thank you all for your support over the past year. I'm really looking
forward to your feedback on this year's proposed plan during the open
comment period -- a reminder it runs through May 15th.
Thanks!
Katherine
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Annual_Plan/2018-2019/Draft
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017
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