[Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

Béria Lima berialima at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 21:12:00 UTC 2011


If they do revoke (which they can, because do report are part of Chapter
Agreement), will be also a private discussion. I do understand your people
curiosity to know what they discusses, but all the relevant info are public.
Only particular details are handle in private
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*Béria Lima*
<http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484

*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre
acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a
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On 5 August 2011 22:09, Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv em gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Béria Lima <berialima em gmail.com> wrote:
> > I sugguest you to go tough chapters report and ask what they are doing
> with
> > the money they receive in Fundraising. They need to be transparent about
> > what they are doing, but WMF does not have a "policy" status over that.
>
> Well, right now many chapters fail to handle such basic transparency
> thing like publishing an annual report (seriously, look at
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports ). If they fail, Wikimedia
> Foundation, as an organization that empowers them to collect money
> through the banners, may act as an oversight and revoke that
> privilege. I do not believe that this is the proper process to do
> that, but I certainly agree that it is what to be done.
>
> --vvv
>
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