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This program plan was developed during 4 full days of meetings of members and board during two weekends in August and September 2012. As a first step, a broad strategy was developed based on Wikimedia Sverige's vision and an analysis of earlier activities. Next, all project ideas have been collected, categorized and prioritized against the strategic points. As one of Wikimedia Sverige's goal is a substantial external funding, these ideas are further developed into project proposals and realized on a more opportunity chasing base, and only administrative costs and high prioritized projects may be covered by the FDC grant. As of September 2012, applications corresponding to one third of the open part of the financing have been submitted.

Strategi

Wikimedia Sverige's strategy gives focus for the programs on a 2-4 year basis from 2012 in order to reach the, by the association decided, Vision.

The strategy is divided into stakeholders as in the vision. It is the results from discussions during a member meeting]] in August 2012.

Contributors of content

Prioritized focus group
vision
  • All contributors of content release what they produce under a free license.
  • All educational content is easily accessible for free and in an open standard.
strategy
  • The association shall create and disseminate information and knowledge about free licenses.
  • The association shall influence authorities, public institutions and organizations so that they are starting to use free licenses.
  • The association shall give hands-on support to organisations that wants to make their material available under free licenses.

Teaching institutions

Prioritized focus group
vision
  • All teaching institutions embrace the concept of free knowledge.
  • The creation of new free knowledge is an integrated part of education and research.
strategy
  • The association shall work towards for making research funded by public means published under free licenses.
  • The association shall educate teachers to integrate Wikipedia in Education, especially by stimulating students to write and actively contributing.

Editors

Prioritized focus group
vision
  • A sufficiently large and healthy community interacting in a productive manner.
  • Everybody contributes to projects for free knowledge disregarding background, age or gender.
  • Everybody realizes that sharing knowledge is advantageous for everybody.
strategy
  • The association shall work towards getting under represented groups as editors to be more active.
  • The association shall organize and support meetings of different kinds for active editors.
  • The association shall give support and encourage topic experts to actively contribute to the projects.
  • The association shall investigate what support the active editors needs and work to fulfill those, either on our own or by forward tte information to relevant place.

Users

vision
  • Everybody requests and understands the value of free and accessible knowledge.
  • All users can find relevant information quickly and without effort.
strategy
  • The association shall work towards a positive attitude, and enhanced usage of the Wikimedia projects and free knowledge, by doing PR and educating the public and potential users in Sweden.
  • The association shall, as a contact between the Wikimedia Foundation and users in Sweden, contribute for enhanced usability of the platform, especially when it comes to search and localization.
  • The association shall work towards that feedback from users should make free knowledge better.

Promoters of knowledge and education

vision
  • The concept of free knowledge is so accepted that it does not need to be explained.
  • The boundaries between us and promoters of knowledge and education are erased and we are working together towards a shared goal.
strategy
  • The association shall give advice to politicians and authorities regarding free knowledge.
  • The association shall influence politicians to work for free licenses.
  • The association shall influence institutions to encourage use of Wikipedia in Education.
  • The association shall seek financial support from promoters of knowledge for its work.

Program plan

Content liberation

Information about free licenses

Lack of knowledge and ignorance about free licenses is a major key for disregarding free licences. Among a majority of professionals, CC licences lead to confusion and dissatisfaction as many prejudices regarding the released rights, copyright transfer and reuse exist. We will update our GLAM white book to a third release, and create one with focus on photographers focusing on new opportunities rather than on inflexible business models. With further information material we will run information campaigns towards both customers and creators of content.

Influence organizations

This activity mainly includes the continuation of the Europeana Awareness project, and cooperations similar to the CMS cooperation. We will more actively point out the availability of free images at authorities and spread information about best practices.

Practical support

A major bottle neck and showstopper is the lack of practical support for GLAM institutions. Image donations can not be processed due to the lack of capacity and volunteers at the upload side as donors are left on their own, and substantial help from our side is needed. We will provide better information about the implementation of QRpedia, and will take the hand of two pilot partners. We are investigating the possibilities of a rent-a-Wikipedian as a shorter alternative to a full Wikipedian in residence. Furthermore, improved GLAM statistics will be provided through a master thesis project.

Free knowledge in education

Wikipedia in Education

Research liberation

A major part of the research in Sweden is financed by private foundations. A more and more common requirement is a free publication of the results (open access), which however, does not meet our definition of free. We will work to make both the financing bodies and researchers aware of the advantages of true free licences for the society.

Community support

Support the active editors

We are continuing our community project budget, technology pool, reference literature project and the support for media accreditations. Clear guidelines for mini grants for e.g. travelling, tickets, areal photography etc. will help to reduce the administrative overhead and processing time for both volunteers and the association. A special attention is paid on making known our projects to the community, and to get feedback on our activities. Furthermore, we work to make new features and tools for editors localized quickly.

Underrepresented groups

Underrepresented groups including but not limited to women, retired persons, experts in the field, minorities and immigrants have a huge potential for contribution. We are continuing our cooperation with Wikifem, arrange further workshops and especially raise awareness about the lack of these groups. Together with our education projects we will focus on Swedish for immigrants education. As the launch of the visual editor makes editing much easier, the resources of retired experts will provide much space for new concepts.

Meetings for active editors

This category includes the organization of edit-a-thons, a regulars' table tournee, meetings of project work groups, FSCONS, WMSE organized fotosafaris etc.

Topic experts

The major project in this category will be WikiLovesCompany as a cooperation with the "Centrum för näringslivshistoria" (Centre for Business History). We will try different concepts like a "peer review"/expert feedback for excellent articles, certificates for participation, and contact with stakeholder organizations.

Reader participation

Educating the public

Our goal is to increase the general knowledge about the mechanisms of Wikipedia and free licenses. We want to increase the amount of proactive appearance in media, and develop Wikimedia Sverige into a knowledgeable spokesperson. We will spread information material about (reusing) free licenses, write debate articles and participate in the Gothenburg book fair. Furthermore, we will develop a concept for participation of Wikipedia and free knowledge in the european culture capital Umeå 2014.

Usability

To enhance the usability of the platform, we will work as a contact between the Wikimedia Foundation and users in Sweden. This includes an active monitoring of user feedback on Village pump and Wikipedia questions and file requests in Bugzilla for others, and to make new features quickly available. During a translation sprint/hackathon we focus on getting the platform fully localized.

User feedback

We will continue to examine and collect the need and wishes of users, and communicate to the community. Furthermore, we will help that article feedback tools become available and localized quickly.

Free knowledge awareness

Advice to politicians and authorities

Influence politicians

Influence institutions

Enabling

organizational chart 2013

Budget

revenues

SEK USD
Member fees 15,000 2,180
Donations 20,000 2,907
WMF grant 2,350,000 341,570
Interest, sales 15,000 2,180
Other grants 1,867,000 271,366
Wiki Skills 203,000 29,506
Europeana Awareness 230,000 33,430
TOTAL 4,700,000 683,140

costs

non-personnel personnel total
SEK USD SEK USD SEK USD
Enabling 750,000 109,012 550,000 79,942 1,300,000 188,953
AGM 5,000 727 5,000 727
acitivity planning 10,000 1,453 120,000 17,442 130,000 18,895
internal communication, mailing costs 5,000 727 30,000 4,360 35,000 5,087
board meetings 5,000 727 5,000 727
board travel 30,000 4,360 30,000 4,360
organizational development, litrature, training 10,000 1,453 10,000 1,453
office rent, 4 rooms 300,000 43,605 300,000 43,605
telephone, internet, communication 50,000 7,267 50,000 7,267
computer equipment 40,000 5,814 40,000 5,814
server cost 20,000 2,907 20,000 2,907
other office equipment 10,000 1,453 10,000 1,453
consumables 30,000 4,360 30,000 4,360
administration costs 10,000 1,453 125,000 18,169 135,000 19,622
bank fees 5,000 727 5,000 727
mailbox, other mailing costs 3,000 436 3,000 436
other PR material 7,000 1,017 25,000 3,634 32,000 4,651
other advertisments 1,000 145 1,000 145
hompage development 20,000 2,907 20,000 2,907
insurances 25,000 3,634 25,000 3,634
bookkeeping, audit 75,000 10,901 150,000 21,802 225,000 32,703
legal 30,000 4,360 30,000 4,360
other personnel costs 5,000 727 5,000 727
other personnel travel (e.g. Chapters meeting) 40,000 5,814 40,000 5,814
Fundraising 100,000 14,535 100,000 14,535
other 14,000 2,035 14,000 2,035
Content liberation 110,000 15,988 890,000 129,360 1,000,000 145,349
information about free licenses 10,000 1,453 40,000 5,814 50,000 7,267
influence organizations 50,000 7,267 550,000 79,942 600,000 87,209
practical support 50,000 7,267 300,000 43,605 350,000 50,872
Free knowledge in education 80,000 11,628 820,000 119,186 900,000 130,814
Wikipedia in Education 75,000 10,901 775,000 112,645 850,000 123,547
research liberation 5,000 727 45,000 6,541 50,000 7,267
Community support 555,000 80,669 345,000 50,145 900,000 130,814
support the active editors 375,000 54,506 100,000 14,535 475,000 69,041
underrepresented groups 40,000 5,814 110,000 15,988 150,000 21,802
meetings for active editors. 100,000 14,535 75,000 10,901 175,000 25,436
topic experts 40,000 5,814 60,000 8,721 100,000 14,535
Reader participation 75,000 10,901 225,000 32,703 300,000 43,605
educating the public 60,000 8,721 150,000 21,802 210,000 30,523
usability 10,000 1,453 40,000 5,814 50,000 7,267
user feedback 5,000 727 35,000 5,087 40,000 5,814
Free knowledge awareness 90,000 13,081 210,000 30,523 300,000 43,605
advice to politicians and authorities 20,000 2,907 50,000 7,267 70,000 10,174
influence politicians 45,000 6,541 70,000 10,174 115,000 16,715
influence institutions 25,000 3,634 90,000 13,081 115,000 16,715
TOTAL 1,660,000 241,279 3,040,000 441,860 4,700,000 683,140

WMF mall

For some guidelines, please see this example proposal form.

All eligible entities will need to complete this form to request funds from the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC). The completed document must be published in English on Meta by the deadline for each round (23:59 UTC 1 October for Round 1, and 23:59 UTC 1 March for Round 2).

The purpose of this document is to provide the FDC with an overview of your annual plan, the alignment of the plan to the Wikimedia movement’s strategic goals, and the potential impact and effectiveness of the plan. This proposal should complement any annual planning documents you may have: please complete all fields as mandatory and add links to supporting documents where relevant.

Each section of the proposal provides guidance on the amount of detail expected in response to each question or field. If you have additional questions about the form, please contact the FDC support team.

A few terms used in the form:

Basic information

Table 1.

Legal name of affiliated entity Wikimedia Sverige
Contact name Jan Ainali
Contact position in entity Chairman
Contact username Ainali
Contact email jan.ainali(at)wikimedia.se
Entity fiscal year (mm/dd–mm/dd) 01/01-12/31
Timeframe of funds currently requested (mm/dd/yy–mm/dd/yy) 01/01/12-12/31/13
Date posted mm/dd/yy1
Round submitted (1 or 2) 1
Currency requested2 SEK
Exchange rate used (currency requested to $US) and date accessed (mm/dd/yy)3 6,88 09/26/12

Table 2.

In currency requested In $US
Total annual expenses of entity 4 700 000 683 140
Amount proposed to the FDC for the coming year's annual plan 2 350 00 341 570
Amount to be raised from non-FDC sources 2 350 00 341 570
If applicable, amount of FDC funds allocated to entity last year 1 981 682 288 035

1The proposal is assumed to be final as of the deadline for each round (23:59 UTC, October 1 for Round 1, and 23:59 UTC March 1 for Round 2). After the deadline, the proposal must not be further modified; any further commentary should be included on the talk page.

2Currency requested is defined as the currency in which you wish to receive funds (e.g., EUR, GBP, INR).

3This exchange rate should be used throughout the form.

Background, history, and mission

This section provides the FDC an overview of your entity's background and history. Please respond to each question below with 1-2 sentences to a maximum of a paragraph.

  • When was your entity established?
10/20/07
  • What is the mission of your entity, and how does it support the goals of the Wikimedia movement?
The association shall work towards making knowledge freely accessible to all humans, especially by supporting the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation. The association shall also work to spread knowledge about the these projects, promote their use, and support technology essential for them.
  • What is its current leadership structure (e.g., executive staff structure, board / governance structure)?
If you have an organogram or organizational chart for your organization, please provide a link.
Board: Member elected Board with one Board chair, seven additional members (Treasurer and Board members) on one year terms.
  • How many staff are employed by your entity?
Four full-time (increased from three on 1 October) and two part-time.
  • Approximately how many volunteers participate actively in your entity?
40
  • How many members does your entity have?
150

Reflection on past activities and innovations

This section provides the FDC with information about your entity's past activities and strategies. Please answer the questions below with your reflections on the past fiscal year. Responses to each question should be one or two paragraphs.

  • How does your entity define and measure "success"?
Wikitionary has a nice definition of success: "The achievement of one's aim or goal." Since our goal is to promote and provide free knowledge, we consider us successful when we can have that positive impact on society. We measure it by chunking it up into smaller pieces, to our projects. They has been carefully selected and prioritized through long and hard work and involving both members and the community and when these are successful we know that we are on the right track.
  • Please give at least three examples of successful activities that your entity has completed. If available, provide links to information about these activities.
Signed Letter of intent with the Council of the Swedish Central Museums: http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pressmeddelande_2012-05-25/en
Wikipedians in Residence at the Swedish Heritage National Board: http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pressmeddelande_2012-04-18
Using a technology pool for proffesional equipment to volunteers and helping with accreditations: e.g. Royal wedding, Nobel festivities, Gothenburg book fair (about 80 interviews and photos of more than hundreds of writers and politicians, first uploads from 2012)
White book on copyright for GLAM: http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kulturskatter_p%C3%A5_n%C3%A4tet/en
  • What are the plans/strategies that did not work for your entity in the past? What did your entity learn from that experience / those experiences?
Wikimedia Sverige has tried to engage academics through Wikipedia Academy. During the actual events we received a lot of interest and the academics were mainly positive. However, we have not gained much traction through this afterwards; they have been relatively slow in actually getting active, and as a result, the expected benefits for the projects, such as high quality articles, were not realised. We have learned that the event in itself is not enough to get them active but that it requires follow-up and continued support. In the future, we would rethink the concept of Wikipedia Academy from being a one-off event only, before trying it again and having clear goals and a broader plan of what we want to achieve with the Wikipedia Academy. This lesson will we also apply on edit-a-thons and editor engagement that are in our program plan this year.
  • What else has your entity learned or innovated upon that could benefit the broader Wikimedia movement?
  • Interactions with credible persons: Nobel laureaetes interviews http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel-interviews_2011.ogv, short interviews presenting the article subject himself
  • Modules developed in CiviCRM that can be used by other chapters, for example public and live accounting and bookkeeping for high transparency and time reporting that integrates to that. https://donera.wikimedia.se/en/wmse/audit/public/2
  • That all projects and events only become truly valuable after there has been an evaluation made and a follow-up with the participants.
  • For Wiki Loves Monuments, try to engage other groups to gain momentum and wider reach. For example immigrant groups that can learn the local culture and geography.
  • Think quality collaborations instead of many quantitative such. For example in the Wikipedia Education Program, go slow and build a mutual trust and find a few highly enthusiastic collaborators within the educational sector.

Where available, please link to the following to provide supplemental information to the FDC:

  • Link to previous completed fiscal year annual plan
http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil:Financial_report_2011.pdf
  • Link to previous completed fiscal year annual report
http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Verksamhetsber%C3%A4ttelse_2011/en
  • Link to previous completed fiscal year grant report (if your entity has received funds from the FDC)
no FDC funds in 2011

Year-to-date progress

This section provides the FDC information about how your entity is progressing against the current fiscal year's planned budget (revenues and costs).

Please provide the relevant information below. "Year to date" refers to the period between the start of your entity's current fiscal year and the date of submission of the proposal(+). If it is helpful to link to your entity's current fiscal year plan and budget, please do so.

Table 3.

Current fiscal year planned budget Year-to-date actuals+ Variance
In currency requested In $US In currency requested In $US %
Revenues (from all sources) 2,881,525.42 418,826.37 2,697,128.20 392,024.45 6.4%
Spending 2,879,882 418,587.50 1,097,003.39 159,448.17 61.9%

+ Actual year-to-date financials should be provided as close to the proposal submission date as possible; best approximations are sufficient.

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Based on the variance percentages above, please describe how your entity is progressing against revenue and spending targets. If you expect your entity to be significantly under or over target on either revenue or spending, please provide a detailed explanation.

Numbers are as of 2012-09-20. We are underspending right now since recruiting proved to be hard, resulting in a delay of about 2 month in the expected personnel growth. We are increasing our staff though, with one more full time employee for the education program from October 1, one half time employee for administration and bookkeeping as soon as possible, and one one-month project tenue. Liabilities from signed contracts, tax etc. sum up to SEK 543,500 in 2012, while projected project costs, pensions and to-be-signed working contracts are expected to consume additional SEK 470,000. A final surplus of less than SEK 500,000, resulting from overall lower staff cost, is expected for 2012, which will be used as a reserve in the upcoming budget.

Key initiatives and objectives of the upcoming year annual plan

The table is intended to provide an overview of your entity's upcoming year annual plan and its alignment with the movement's strategic goals; please provide short phrases or 1-3 bullet points for each initiative in the table below. Feel free to add more details below the table (1-2 paragraphs per initiative). You can also link to any other documents that you think might be helpful as context.

If you feel you have an initiative that fulfills a strategic goal that is not immediately identified with a Wikimedia strategic goal ('readership' rather than 'editorship', for instance), please add that in the table and offer us your rationale.

Please link to your entity's strategic plan if you have one.

Strategic plan link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Sverige/2012_Programme_Plan

Table 4.

Key initiatives What are the objectives of this initiative (include metrics)? Which Wikimedia strategic goal(s) does this initiative address? What key activities / milestones are associated with this initiative? How will your entity accomplish this initiative? How will your entity measure and track success of this initiative?
Community support *Getting more underrepresented groups onto the projects
  • Increasing editor satisfaction
Infrastructure, quality, participation, innovation *Find out contributors' problems on the projects and act to solve them.
  • Make technical and financial resources available to the contributors to complete projects and produce high-quality material.
  • Give opportunities to underrepresented groups to become active contributors to the projects.
*We have already created a pool of technology that will be available and a system for contributors to ask for micro grants.
  • We will recruit a volunteer program manager
  • Expand our outreach activities towards underrepresented groups
  • Staff and board that are close to the community.
Using the editor survey and measuring the Wikimedia Editor Satisfaction Index.
Free knowledge in education * Wikipedia is used as a teaching tool in education
  • Pupils, students and teachers contribute free knowledge
  • Teachers present the projects to be used as a resource for the pupils and students
Quality, reach and participation * Educate teachers through Wiki-skills and by creating educational material.
  • Implementing the Wikipedia in Education program on different levels and ages.
  • Introduce the concept of Wikipedia-friendly schools.
* Continue employment of our full-time Education program manager.
  • establish cooperations with relevant teaching institutions.
* Level of commitment and engagement on the participating schools and organisations for example by the number of participating subjects and/or teachers on them.
  • By the level of quality on the articles created during the project.
  • Longevity of the new editors in the projects.
Content liberation * Increase GLAM's general interest to freely license their material and make it available for the projects.
  • Enhance the quality of the donated material.
Quality * Support GLAMs that want to donate material.
  • Have edit-a-thons in connection to the uploads to get experts at the GLAMs to contribute directly to the projects.
  • Promote Wikipedians in Residence to strategically interesting GLAMs.
* Continue employment of our full-time GLAM program manager.
  • By the letter of intent we signed with the Council of the Swedish Central Museums 2012 which already has made several institutions pro-active.
  • Through our network and reputation we have gained in the GLAM sector over the last years.
* Number of donations.
  • The quality of donations.
  • Number of curators involved in the projects.
  • Number of Wikipedians in Residence.
Reader participation * Identify weaknesses in the quality of content and disseminate our findings.
  • Identify weaknesses in the user interface and work to get them solved.
  • Create a positive image of the projects.
Infrastructure, quality, reach *Inform the general public about how the projects work.
  • Develop and test new concepts for reader feedback.
  • Stimulate students to write their theses about the projects.
  • Collect opinions on the user interface and relay them to developers.
* Create pedagogical material and distribute it thoroughly
  • Synergy through the Education program.
*Grading of trustworthiness in the Swedish media rating: “Mediebarometern”
  • The quality of collected feedback from readers of the tested concepts.
  • The possibility to utilize the research and findings to improve the projects.
Free knowledge awareness Make policy makers and institutions aware of the advantages of free knowledge. Participation, reach * Create specifically targeted informational material on free knowledge for different groups.
  • Actively campaign that information.
* Experience from collaborating with GLAMs in creating the white paper for free licensing of images.
  • Already established relationships with members of the parliament.
* Through a survey to politicians after they have received the material.








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Additional context for the upcoming year annual plan / SWOT

Please provide 1-2 paragraphs for each response below. SWOT stands for your organizational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

  • What organizational strengths enable your entity's plan (e.g., leadership, governance structure, community participation, fundraising)?
  • Strong and engaged board with important community connections
  • Diversity of skills and knowledge within the board
  • Well motivated and competent staff
  • Proactive work by the staff concerning transparency towards the community and the public in general
  • Clearly defined responsibilities both within the board and among the employees
  • What external opportunities enable your entity's plan (e.g., socio-political context, community participation, fundraising)?
  • Strong interest from GLAM institutions
  • The use of Wikipedia in Education in Sweden is flourishing and there are plenty of further opportunities
  • Positive attitudes towards Wikipedia in education
  • Interest in how Wikipedia works shown from politicians
  • What are key risks or threats that would prevent you from achieving your plan (e.g., leadership turnover, governance challenges, lawsuits, fundraising, community participation, socio-political context)?
  • We are having a hard time engaging volunteers for chapter activities outside of Stockholm.
  • The community has a lack of interest in the chapter and does not request as much help as they seem to need
  • Plan requires Wikimedia Sverige to fundraise additional 1 000 000 SEK to achieve all the set goals
  • How will you minimize these risks and threats?
  • Engaging the community and offer our services in an as easy way as possible for them, also by connecting them to relevant agents
  • Increase activity in fundraising (main activity of the secretary in Q4 is fundraising), make the work more efficient by making applications re-useable

Financials for the upcoming year's annual plan

  • Provide your financial overview for the upcoming year in the format below.
Please link to your detailed budget (translation into English highly recommended) in addition to completing the tables below.
Detailed budget link: http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Budget_2013/Ans%C3%B6kan_till_FDC/en#Budget
Revenues

Please list anticipated revenues, by source (e.g., FDC, Wikimedia grants programs, public funding, membership fees, local donations, event fees)
Table 5.

Revenue source Anticipated (in currency requested) Anticipated (In $US)
FDC 2 350 000 341 570
Wiki Skills 203,000 29,506
Europeana Awareness 230,000 33,430
Member fees 15,000 2,180
Donations 20,000 2,907
Interest, sales 15,000 2,180
Other grants 1,867,000 271,366







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Current entity staff (e.g., Included in year-in-progress budget)

Role / functions might include program administration, finance, fundraising. Please include both part-time and full-time staff.
Table 6.

Role / Function Number of staff Percentage of staff time+
Secretary 1 100%
Program manager 2 100%
Project manager 1 15%
Project Assistant 1+1 100%+10%









+Please include estimates of the percentage allocation of staff members. For example, for full time staff, you would put 100% in this column. For half time staff, you would put 50% in this column.

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Proposed new staff for upcoming year annual plan

Role / functions might include program administration, finance, fundraising. Please include both part-time and full-time staff.
Table 7.

Role / Function Number of staff Percentage of staff time+ Duration Rationale for hiring new staff
CEO 1 100% full time Growth of the association places demand on full time leadership and coordination.
Program managers 2+1 2x100% + 1x60% Full time The third program manager, for Volunteer support, is needed to manage all planned activities on that key initiative.
Project managers 1 15% Full time [No new hiring]
Project assistants 1+1 100% + 10% Full time [No new hiring]
Financial administration 1 50% Full time When the secretary leaves, a specialist for financial issues will take care of those duties.








+Please include estimates of the percentage allocation of staff members. For example, for full time staff, you would put 100% in this column. For half time staff, you would put 50% in this column.

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Summary of staff expenses

Table 8.

In currency requested In $US
Current staff expenses 1,575,000 228,924
Proposed staff expenses 1,465,000 212,936
Total staff expenses 3,040,000 441,860

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Expenses by program/initiative

Expenses are costs associated with any programs, initiatives, or projects your entity manages (e.g., event costs, materials, transportation). Please exclude any staff costs that are included above. “Programs / initiatives” might include education programs, outreach programs, etc. Please include any administration costs (e.g., office space rental, utilities) affiliated with each program along with any overall administration costs that are not affiliated with any particular program (e.g., Administration should be considered a "Program" under the first column.)

Table 9.

Program / initiative In currency requested In $US
Community support 555 000 80.670
Content liberation 110 000 15.990
Free knowledge in Education 80 000 11.630
Reader participation 75 000 10.900
Free knowledge awareness 90 000 13.080
Administration 750 000 109.012








Total expenses 1 660 000 241.279

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Summary of total revenues and expenses

Table 10.

In currency requested In $US
Total Revenues 4 700 000 683 140
Total Spending 4 700 000 683 140
Net (revenues less expenses) 0 0
Reserve balance, if applicable+ 450,000 65,407

+ Cash reserve balance should include cumulative reserves and any net revenue

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Verification that this proposal requests no funds from the Wikimedia Foundation for political or legislative activities

Enter "yes" or "no" for the verification below.

The term “political or legislative activities” includes any activities relating to political campaigns or candidates (including the contribution of funds and the publication of position statements relating to political campaigns or candidates); voter registration activities; meetings with or submissions and petitions to government executives, ministers, officers or agencies on political or policy issues; and any other activities seeking government intervention or policy implementation (like “lobbying”), whether directed toward the government or the community or public at large. Grants for such activities (when permitted under U.S. law and IRS regulations) should be sought from the Wikimedia Grants Program.
I verify that this proposal requests no funds from the Wikimedia Foundation for political or legislative activities Yes


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