Concur with Lodewijk, additionally in terms of number of attendees and the
amount of partner organisations and vendors involved, it's an entirely
different scale.
Wikimedia Conference is a staffed organisation running a relatively simple
event on their home-turf.
Wikimania is a mix of volunteers and the Foundation organising an
international event which has changing factors year on year.
Well done for WMDE being so prompt with the accounts, but I'm not sure it's
a methodology for budgeting accounting which accounts for the difference
in the time it takes to produce accounts.
More the relative scale of and the resources applied to each event.
Best
Stuart
User:Battleofalma
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org
wrote:
A quick peek suggests that these are the costs for Wikimedia Deutschland,
not for the movement. It does not include the travel/accommodation/staff
costs of all the chapters that funded themselves (or even where volunteers
funded themselves). This should all be included to give a fair picture.
Best,
Lodewijk
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for bringing up the subject of financial accounting for major
events. I would just like to note that our colleagues at Wikimedia
Deutschland who hosted Wikimedia Conference 2015 published an accounting of
that conference's finances just a few months after the conference (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Budget_and_finances).
Perhaps other events could use a similar method for budgeting and
accounting so that other reports are also produced in a timely manner.
Regards,
Pine
On Aug 23, 2015 8:04 AM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
it...@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
This is not my first email about this issue, but I really think it's
really important. Wikimania is the highest expense for our movement. From
the conference production cost, WMF scholarships, chapter scholarships and
WMF and chapters delegations - amounts that is almost one million dollar,
if not more.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
Wikimania 2012-2013 budgets were been published but still consider as
draft:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013/Budget
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Budget
If the conference organization leader can be please approve this numbers
and remove the draft template - it will be great.
WMCH, Affcom, WMAR and WMDE are welcome to complete their information
regarding their delegations and scholarships given by them.
For 2014 - we don't have any data. Not conference budget, not
scholarships and not chapters numbers. Edward - your help will be welcome.
I personally asked my ED to complete the information for WMIL, and I
welcome others to do so as well.
Ellie and the Wikimania committee - there is something we can do in
order to take care for this pages to be update yearly?
Thank you everyone!
*Regards,Itzik Edri*
Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel
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