matanya moses wrote:
tl;dr: The FDC’s recommendations for this round of the APG grant requests have now been published at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/14803740
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) meets twice a year to help make decisions about how to effectively allocate movement funds to achieve the Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. [1] We met for four days last week in San Francisco to review 11 proposals submitted for this round of funding. [2]
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This round, the eleven proposals came from ten chapters and one thematic organisation, totaling requests of approximately $3.8 million USD. Ten affiliates were returning to the APG program, and one was a new applicant. This round, one organisation requested a restricted grant to support one particular program. All other grant requests were for general funding.
Hi.
Apologies if these questions have already been asked/answered elsewhere, I did try to skim this thread, the Meta-Wiki page, and its talk page first.
The Wikimedia Foundation has a section under "Organisation-specific remarks", but isn't included in the "Funding recommendations" chart and there's no amount requested, amount allocated, or proposal listed for the Wikimedia Foundation. Why is that?
If Wikimedia Deutschland is required to separate out costs for Wikidata, does that mean that the Wikimedia Foundation is required to split out costs for Wikipedia and its other projects? I'd be quite curious to know how much money is being spent by the Wikimedia Foundation on Wiktionary or Wikinews or Wikiversity.
The report includes this note:
The FDC is appalled by the closed way that the WMF has undertaken both strategic and annual planning, and the WMF’s approach to budget transparency (or lack thereof).
Sort of inline with the first question, but perhaps more direct: what power does the Funds Dissemination Committee have over the amount of donor money allocated toward the Wikimedia Foundation? Can the FDC only admonish the organization, but not actually withhold funds?
MZMcBride