[Wikimedia-l] Transparency about Wikimania costs

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Itzik Edri, 21/09/2012 21:33:
> I published here Wikimania 2011 costs & income:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/2011/Budget

Thank you very much for starting this discussion and publishing this.
In the past I've had a really hard time finding some data, e.g. for 2009 
all I found is this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2009#Expenses
See also the related discussion here: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget#Wikimania_travel_question

>
> I'm not asking everyone now to start digging for their costs in 2011, but I
> think we can start do it from this year.
>
> I posted here WMIL travel costs:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/2012/Budget/Chapters

WMIT travel costs are, I believe, detailed enough in the annual 
financial report, so I hope it won't be too hard to collect such data.
(I've taken the liberty to do some copyediting.)

> I'll be happy if the chapters and the WMF can post their costs also
> and I'm encouraging Wikimania 2012 local team also to post
> their conference costs and incomes.
>
> I think this transparency is important, and this knowledge about the total
> costs to the movement is also important to others who planning Wikimania in
> the future.

I also think that full details should be disclosed on wikimaniateam 
wiki, internal wiki or whatever, so that future teams know.

Nemo