[Wikimedia-l] RFC about the scope of the Ombudsman Commission

2013-05-07 Thread Thomas Goldammer
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

[Wikimedia-l] The world's most efficient charity?

2013-05-07 Thread Chris Keating
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:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The world's most efficient charity?

2013-05-07 Thread Fae
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

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals – out now!

2013-05-07 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
It'd be great to see wikimedians there. Tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Beatrice Martini beatrice.mart...@okfn.org Date: 2013/5/7 Subject: [okfn-discuss] OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals – out now! To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list okfn-disc...@lists.okfn.org Hi! We

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The world's most efficient charity?

2013-05-07 Thread Jan Ainali
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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The world's most efficient charity?

2013-05-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Jared Zimmerman joins Wikimedia Foundation as Director of UX

2013-05-07 Thread Isarra Yos
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