Thank you for all your supportive feedback, we really appreciate it.
@ Tomasz - This is definitely something we will discuss further. We replied
to your question on meta and welcome further comments related to this on
meta.
@ Pine, Claudia - For 2013, the volunteer and staff time spent on applying
for and reporting about WMF grants was not within the scope of our
financial report. The focus was mainly on aligning the financial data that
were in the financial statements of the chapters. We will consider if
including the estimate of volunteer and staff time spent on applying for
and reporting about WMF grants would fall within the scope of the report if
this is to be repeated.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Great job and very interesting.
I had this tought during sending you data for Wikimedia Polska, so I want
to share it here as well. In the report there is no "projects" entry for
costs but only "events" and "organizational development". Chapters
are
doing not only events but also projects leading to improvement of free
content and data - such as colaboration with GLAMs, software developement,
developement of wikidata, microgrant systems etc, which are hard to be
called "events" and they are also not "organizational developement".
I
would suggest to add to future reports positions "content and software
improvement projects" or something similar. I think especially for thematic
organizations it is the core of their activity.
2015-06-08 19:00 GMT+02:00 Michael Guss <mguss(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Hello folks,
After 8 months, over 400 line items and an infinite amount of emails, I
am
very pleased to let everyone know that we the
finance fellows have
completed our movement-wide financial report. It is now available for
everyone to read on meta and download.
Here is the link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movement-wide_Financial_Report
I have to offer my sincerest gratitude to everyone involved with the
release of this report. Thank you to all the participating chapters who
helped make this report possible. We cannot express our appreciation
enough
for your helpful responses and guidance to
develop this final product.
Hopefully, this report proves insightful for you and help us begin to
think
about more consistent financial reporting.
Thank you Community Engagement, especially Jaime Anstee, Edward Galvez,
Winifred Olliff and Katy Love for your guidance throughout this process.
But last and not least, thank you to all volunteers who participate in
the
Wikimedia projects. Despite the fiscal emphasis
of this report, it is
your
work that is most important and completely
invaluable to the movement.
Hopefully, you too will find this report useful.
Best,
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Walter Alejandro Gomez Segura <
wagsegura(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi Pine,
>
> Yes, we would like to discuss it. The main goal of this project is to
> prompt questions, so further along we will carry out a discussion about
> this report and try to get as much feedback as we can from the
community.
Best,
Walter Gomez Segura
*Finance Fellow*
*149 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA., 94105*
www.wikimediafoundation.org
wagsegura(a)wikimedia.org
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Lene,
>
> OK, thanks for the update. As you can tell, I am very interested in
your
> work.
>
> I am sensitized to anything having to do with Meta-type documentation
and
> deadlines at the moment, seeing as I am
juggling so many of them with
> intricate dependencies (including weekend projects), but I suppose
that I
> > will just need to wait until April for this particular report.
> >
> > I am very glad that this report is being done. Perhaps we will have a
> > chance to discuss it during an office hour in April?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pine
> >
> > *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep
rock
of
> > our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear
water
> we
> > must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth,
in
>
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the
broad
> > fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we
do
> not
> > know.*
> >
> > *—Catherine Munro*
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Lene Gillis <lgillis(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Pine,
> > >
> > > Thank you for your inquiry and for following up the status of this
> > project.
> > >
> > > We’ve updated the information on our meta page[1], so that it is
more
> > clear
> > > to everyone. We would like to clarify that the Draft Report is a
> > > finalization of the raw dataset and is not intended to be
published.
We
are
> currently focusing on representing the data, so that everyone can
easily
> > understand the outcomes of our project. This will be revised
internally
> > and
> > > the outcome of that will be the Final Report, which will be
published
> in
> > > April.
> > >
> > > All the best,
> > >
> > > Lene
> > >
> > > [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement-wide_Financial_Report
> > >
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