Dear all,
the Ombudsman Commission has started a request for comments on Meta about
its scope:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scope_of_Ombudsman_Commission
We invite everyone to comment on this proposal (preferably on the page
linked above in order to have all discussions at
In the light of some of the discussion about overhead and fundraising cost
ratios on this list, I would like to congratulate the Arrythmia Alliance, a
UK registered charity, for two remarkable feats revealed in its annual
return to the Charity Commission:
Interesting case of a low percentage of common sense.
At the moment, I believe that none of our chapters publish figures or
estimates for the ratio between admin, fundraising and admin work, even
if we publish detailed annual reports. Personally, I don't feel we are
in a strong position to be
It'd be great to see wikimedians there. Tom
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From: Beatrice Martini beatrice.mart...@okfn.org
Date: 2013/5/7
Subject: [okfn-discuss] OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals – out now!
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Hi!
We
Well, It might be a little hard to penetrate and realise what is what in
this huge page, but we do have our accounting public here:
https://donera.wikimedia.se/en/wmse/audit/public/3
If you have any specific questions, please direct them to me or
User:Prolineserver, our treasurer and Master of
Chris Keating, 07/05/2013 18:28:
These figures are literally unbelievably good, and I hope we see nothing
similar in the Wikimedia movement in the future.
That seems a rather standard example of semi-empty container entity
whose (administrative) costs are on some other orgs' shoulders and
Woot!
On 06/05/13 17:44, Erik Moeller wrote:
Hi folks,
It’s my great pleasure to announce that today, Jared Zimmerman will
start as Wikimedia Foundation’s Director of User Experience. As UX
Director, Jared will lead the design team and have a hands-on role on
the team, contributing his own