[Wikimedia-l] WMF core and non core expenses

[Thomas Dalton]

It seems clear to me, based on the end result and what foundation board and
senior staff have said, that they decided an account of money they wanted
to request from the FDC and then decided what to designate as non-core so
that it added up to that amount.

Rather disingenuous of them, but Sue has been very clear that she only sees
the foundation's application as a way of testing the process rather than as
actually being the right way to determine the budget.
On Oct 8, 2012 11:14 AM, "Itzik Edri" <itzik at infra.co.il> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As agreed, the WMF is also sending their non-core program to the
> FDC approval, you can see their proposal here:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round1/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form
>
> But I'm asking myself, that's all what we consider as non-core? I didn't
> really done a deep research in the WMF budget (as every item in the WMF
> budget is like the whole big chapter budget and there are no breakdown),
> but for example what jumped in my mind immediate: Merchandise store
> (311,000$=Wikimedia Magyarország + Wikimedia Israel + Wikimedia Argentina
> annual budget) - what make it core? or research (324,000$) and others
> (again, can't go deeply with that as the items in the budget are
> general..).
>
>
>
> Itzik
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