Hello WMF Finance Fellows and welcome to the wikimedia movement, I'm pleased to see this project and look forward to following your work.
I left a comment/question of the talk page. Please move it to the main page if you think it is more appropriate. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement-wide_Financial_Report I'll look for the response on meta. Sydney Poore User:FloNight Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Michael Guss <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > We are the Finance Fellows, a multicultural team consisting of 4 young > professionals. We are happy to introduce a 6-month movement-wide project > that focuses on the consistency of how we operate, which is explained > further in this announcement. > > *But here's some information about us*: > > Arda [User:Melmas_(WMF)] < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Melmas_(WMF)> is > from Turkey. He holds a BA in Economics. > > > Lene [User:Lgillis_(WMF)] > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lgillis_(WMF)> is from Belgium. She > holds a Master's degree in Applied Economics and a Master's degree in > Business Communication. > > Seyi [User:Oolukoya_(WMF)] > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Oolukoya_(WMF)> is from Nigeria. She > holds a Master's in International Business and a BSc in Economics. > > Walter [User:Wagsegura_(WMF)] > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wagsegura_(WMF)> is from Nicaragua. > He holds a BA in Applied Economics. > > *About the project "Movement-wide financial report"* > > Driven by the Wikimedia Foundation's guiding principles of transparency and > accountability, our goal is to gather data and develop systematic metrics > in order to provide a better understanding of financial statements. The aim > is to help make financial data and statements more consistent and > comparable across all Wikimedia Chapters, Thematic Organizations, and the > Wikimedia Foundation, to the benefit of the whole movement. > > The idea of this project comes from the WMF Board of Trustee's Audit > Committee and is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. An initial > quantitative > analysis of Wikimedia Chapters and Thematic Organizations > <https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Chapters_in_Numbers> > demonstrated > at Wikimania 2013 by Michal Buczyński (User:Aegis Maelstrom) > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aegis_Maelstrom>, highlighted the > importance of meaningful, obtainable and unified data. > > The Finance Fellows have been formed by WMF to spearhead this project. The > intention of this project is to enable Wikimedia Chapters and Thematic > Organizations to benchmark activities and costs in a consistent way. We > will begin by gathering comparable quantitative financial data about > Wikimedia Chapters and Thematic Organizations. Our findings will later be > released movement-wide, on Meta-Wiki. > > Please note that this is not an audit process. We are simply collecting the > data and developing global metrics. The metric is an objective measurement > that will enable data to be consistent, meaningful and comparable among the > Wikimedia Chapters, Thematic Organizations, and the Wikimedia Foundation. > > We will build on existing data sets and reach out to Chapters and Thematic > Organizations if further information is required. After processing the > gathered information, we will confirm the data with each organization. > > In the long run, we envision that this project could be replicated > annually. In this attempt to enable Wikimedia Chapters, Thematic > Organizations, and the Wikimedia Foundation to help make the movement's > financial data more consistent, we rely on the data provided by the > organizations. We believe that there is enough data available to make a new > attempt on capturing the movement's finances as a whole. > > A meta page < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement-wide_Financial_Report> > was > created for the project, in order to make the information accessible to > everyone and create a space for discussion and/or suggestions. We strongly > encourage you to share with us what types of additional information is > desired. > > And of course: This is all an experiment! If it does not work, we will try > to apply a modified 'agile' process by iterating, repeating, and trying > again based on the feedback we are getting. If this does not seem right, or > if it appears we are missing something obvious, please let us know! > > Thank you, > > WMF Finance Fellows (User:WMF Finance Fellows) > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WMF_Finance_Fellows> > _______________________________________________ > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
