On 27 November 2015 at 06:04, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > I realize that the Funds Dissemination Committee is advisory, but I > thought it had been set up by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees > as "all large affiliate requests, including us," not "all large affiliate > requests, except us." It seems progress has been ebbing and flowing. >
Just as an extra clarification on this point specifically: it's not about whether an affiliate is "large" but more about whether they are eligible[1] and whether they want to apply for an Annual Plan Grant. There are several affiliate organisations across Wikimedia that have larger budgets than some of the FDC-applicants, but have never applied for Annual Plan Grant funding because they have access to external sources of revenue. For example, the primary sources of income for Wikimedia Poland[2] and Wikimedia Indonesia[3] are external (national charity-tax rebate scheme; philanthropic grants). The role of the WMF itself in making its planning/budgeting accountable to "the movement" is, as we have seen, contested. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Eligibility [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/2014#Structure_of_income [3] http://www.wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Laporan_keuangan_2014/Catatan wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
