On 27 November 2015 at 06:04, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I realize that the Funds Dissemination Committee is advisory, but I thought it had been set up by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees as "all large affiliate requests, including us," not "all large affiliate requests, except us." It seems progress has been ebbing and flowing.
Just as an extra clarification on this point specifically: it's not about whether an affiliate is "large" but more about whether they are eligible[1] and whether they want to apply for an Annual Plan Grant.
There are several affiliate organisations across Wikimedia that have larger budgets than some of the FDC-applicants, but have never applied for Annual Plan Grant funding because they have access to external sources of revenue. For example, the primary sources of income for Wikimedia Poland[2] and Wikimedia Indonesia[3] are external (national charity-tax rebate scheme; philanthropic grants).
The role of the WMF itself in making its planning/budgeting accountable to "the movement" is, as we have seen, contested.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Eligibility [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/2014#Structure_of... [3] http://www.wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Laporan_keuangan_2014/Catatan
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