+1 to all the hard work for the members of the FDC and Katy Love. Thank you all for your time, attention and care. /a
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:37 AM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > I should have said this earlier: a big thank you to everyone who worked on > this funding round. From reading the Meta-Wiki pages, it's easy to see > that there is a lot of data to process and audit and it requires a decent > amount of work to issue these important recommendations each round. > > Michael Peel wrote: > >They are organisation-specific remarks. :-) The WMF did not apply to the > >FDC this round, hence why there are no amounts requested/allocated, or a > >proposal to link to. The FDC felt it necessary to include recommendations > >about the WMF anyway. > > I may be showing my ignorance here, but I'm still confused. The Wikimedia > Foundation doesn't go through the Funds Dissemination Committee at all, > then? I see a note from the "2013-2014 round2" recommendations saying: > > "For all future proposals, the FDC strongly emphasizes the need for a > complete proposal: the WMF should undergo similar procedures as other > entities in the movement." > > Is it accurate to say that all large Wikimedia affiliates go through the > Funds Dissemination Committee except the Wikimedia Foundation? Or from a > different angle: how is the Wikimedia Foundation budget allocated? Does > the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees currently do its own direct > allocation, bypassing the FDC? > > >It's worth noting that there are two meanings to the word 'project' here > >- there are the Wikimedia projects, and then there are projects run by > >the Wikimedia organisations (think of, e.g., GLAM or education projects). > >It's particularly the latter case that is most relevant to the FDC's > >work, and in this case Wikidata falls under both meanings. > > Sure, there are many senses of the word project, but this doesn't seem to > answer the question asked. :-) Wikimedia Deutschland : Wikidata :: > Wikimedia Foundation : Wikipedia, right? If one organization is expected > to separate out costs for its largest technical project, shouldn't the > other be as well? > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Anna Stillwell Major Gifts Officer Wikimedia Foundation 415.806.1536 *www.wikimediafoundation.org <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
