Hello.
*Board and management
Board includes Jimbo, 4 people representing the community, 3 representing the local chapters. Serving for 2 or 3 years, and trying hard to achieve consensus when deciding.
They meet regularly, they are not paid but have their expenses covered so they don't need to pay themselves if they don't want to (including non paid holidays to go to meetings, for instance).
Board and community communicate sufficiently to not have any big misunderstanding or clouded issue.
*Staff (the positions, the roles, whether they're paid or not)
I don't have anything against having people paid, or at least see their fees reimbursed. Apart that, joker :)
*Budget
Most of our hardware needs are met by subventions from big organisations and partnerships. We got enough proposals to be neutral (able to switch whenever we feel too much pressure). Budget is clear enough to figure by non technical people, and yet really detailed.
*Fundraising scheme
We get enough money to cover all our internal spendings, and part of our hardware. Donators can tell where there money should be spent.
*Philantropic activity and outreach to get our content widely redistributed
We have partnerships with editors, both on paper and DVDs, to publish our content. Also we have agreements with NGO to distribute it to areas that needs it.
*Projects
Wikibook is greatly improved by teachers from all around the world creating great schoolbooks, and also students who make them funnier to use :) They are regularly used in schools. Also some textbooks editors publish them because printed books are better than computer ones sometimes.
Wikipedia is still the higher project in articles count, with edit wars raging every other day. Still, most people just contribute without any fuss. The inclusion rules are more relaxed, and only a handful of articles are removed every day.
Wikinews is often used as a primary information source, based on many reports from direct witnesses of events. It does not feature editorials or too oriented contents, as per NPOV policy. It features radio and video feeds. Radio is articles being read, video from local witnesses.
Wiktionary contains some millions entries. With the software, it's easy to see definition of a word in any language, with all translations in other languages.
*Content objectives
We had many partnerships with public and private organisations to get their content integrated in our projects. WMF acts as a gateway between those partners and the community (which has its own relations with other organizations, WMF isn't required to be the middleman all the time!). Due to our lobbying (or not), many organizations free their contents and still work fine :)
*Software objectives
We have WYSIWYG edition, metadata separated from articles contents, single login. Also it's easy to select articles, following category relationships, and export them to PDF or any handy format for later redistribution.
*Relationship between chapters and parent organisation
We have a decentralized structure. The Board oversees the grand schema of things, but does not micromanage. Local chapters have much autonomy, report regularly to the Board, but are trusted enough to do important things without (not against, in the spirit of!) Board approval when needed.
*Relationships with the outside world (PR, partnerships, etc.)
We cooperate with some governments, who provide legal advice when needed, and help us with local tax issues. The press often links to our content, and uses it to complement or illustrate articles. We are attacked sometimes, but globally have a not too bad image in the world. We are also one really successful example of community project.
Nicolas