hi, on the question how much money will go to volunteers next year, katherine stated that the 2016 grants budget is 5.8 mio, out of 63 mio [1]. my guess was that between 1 and 2 mio would go to volunteers.
i have a little difficulty to calculate the number. i saw the 2016 fdc numbers [2], 5.5 mio. WMDE writes that the annual fundraising gives 84 mio usd (i.e. 75 mio eur) [3]. on the grants page i do not see numbers [4]. the german community budget page does not list numbers. [5]. WMDE writes that it pays 6 mio a year to WMF [6]. at the same time it gets 1.3 mio via FDC from WMF [7]. there is some indication about money to volunteers in the FDC split up from WMDE [8]. my guess was that 0.5 mio usd are support for wikimania travel including funds to make wikimania cheaper in genaral, and 0.5-1.5 mio via various community projects (e.g. the one of WMDE), individual engagement grants to volunteers, summing up to <2 mio usd a year beeing paid to cover volunteers expenses. can somebody please chime in here with better guesses, or real numbers, maybe directly at [1]? [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/draft#money_distribution_to_volunteers [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_2016-17_FDC_budget_recommendation [3] https://wikimedia.de/wiki/Factsheet#Daten.2C_Zahlen.2C_Fakten [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start [5] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community-Budget [6] https://www.wikimedia.de/w/images.homepage/a/ad/Wmde_jb_2014_engl_web_RZ.pdf [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_round_1 [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Wikimedia_Deutschland_e.V./Proposal_form best rupert _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
