[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

[Tilman Bayer]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:07 PM, aude <aude.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > the Wikimedia Foundation's 2012-13 Annual Plan has just been published at
> >
> >
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf
> >
> > accompanied by a Q&A:
> >
> >
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2012-2013_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers
> >
> > The plan was approved by the Board of Trustees at its meeting in
> > Washington, DC, at Wikimania, and previously outlined to the
> > Foundation staff and interested community members at the monthly staff
> > meeting on July 5, 2012. We were planning to publish the video
> > recording of that meeting at this point, but encountered technical
> > difficulties; the video will hopefully become available soon.
> >
> >
> Just a small point....
>
> I'm curious how the proposed $255,000 for Wikimania travel for staff,
> board, advisory board and volunteers compares with what was actually spent
> this year?
>

> In the 2011-2012 plan, I see that $96,000 was proposed.  While the travel
> costs for SF staff to DC are much less, I find this too low and hard to
> believe. Some more details and breakdown by scholarships vs.
> staff/board/advisory board would be nice.
>
> I'm curious if we are planning a higher number of scholarships for
> volunteers for next year? (as the overall WMF budget increases) and how
> many staff are we planning to send next year?
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
> Note that some (or most) of these questions have now been addressed at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget .

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Tilman Bayer
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