While this might sound attracting at a first glance the effect might be exactly the opposite what is desired.
First, The wikimedia movement is not multinational like coca Cola which just buys what it needs. Wikimedia depends on volunteers. I would never donate money if it is not spent on the people sweating for Wikipedia. So behaving like a cold money hungry multinational driven by quarterly reports poses a reputational risk.
Second, The goal is to target as much money as possible to the mission. Invent some non-core effort and then shifting it to a paid resource is killing such a goal. The effort should ideally disappear, not being outsourced.
And, at the end of the day established (reporting ) standards should be easy to follow for everybody, without the need of a "translator ". Just like we know well from laws and other standards.
Rupert Hmm...I would love to *outsource *financial reporting to WMF together with a couple of other tasks as well (program evaluation for example).
Imo the best would be to contact our (that is WM Hungary) accountant directly so they can get the data organized as wanted, on time, with explanations requested, etc.
In long terms I would love to see a global contract with KPMG (as WMF is using them, or another of the big four) where KPMG (or an alternative firm if not present there) would take this task over from local chapters.
That would ensure that the data is collected the exact same way (with same definitions and methodology used) in every single country, without delays or errors in reporting and on the best dates for WMF.
Not to mention that it would decrease the workload of the chapters what I think barely if ever happened yet.
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