Talk:Finance department
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Hi,
today is May 23, 2006 and the newest figures I can see in Foundation:Finance report are Q3 05. Please let your donators know what's going on.
212.213.204.99 01:24, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
when will the budget for 2006 public? What about the Bank history for 2005 and 2006. The last numbers are from Juli 2005.
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Hello,
Why do you have about $500 quarterly "domain name" expenses in the 2005 budget? That is enough to maintain at least 200 full domains. How many domains do you use? I cannot see more then 10.
I have actually donated a couple of times in the past, and I'd love to see where my money is going. Please publish your latest budgets... --24.10.240.211 05:53, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] historical?
I suppose this page is rather historical since
- bookkeeping is now handled by the Office, not by volunteer(s)
- fundraising is cared by a separate Committee, fundcom
So I guess if we can tag this page with template:Historical ... Thoughts? Aphaia 23:17, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Travel Expenses
Hello,
I don't want to sound critical but I looked at the latest accounts and $75,000 seems a fair amount of money to spend in one year on travel expenses. I was wondering if this could be clarified a little. It might be that I am just not aware of what 'Projects' do with regard to global travel or am out of touch with the price of airline tickets...
Thanks
I'd like more information as well. How was the $107,122 on salary, $114,589 on "in-kind expenses, $47,777 on "operating", and $76,545 on travel spent? These add up to $346,033- a $260,745 increase over the $85,288 from last year. What new projects can this extra $260k be attributed to? Johnpseudo 18:39, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rising Costs
A budget of over six million? Only 2% of this went on long term investments (hardware). Why the massive cost increase? 2003-4 $23,463 2004-5 $177,670 2005-6 $791,907 2006-7 $2,077,843 2007-8 $3,540,724 2008-9 ~$6,000,000
Why do they need all the extra management staff while they didn't before?
Thanks
[edit] PDF
The PDF http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_2007_fs.pdf is down. --89.49.69.122 01:49, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
- The link seems fine right now. Here's a direct link to the file which should work Wikimedia 2007 fs.pdf. --Az1568 17:53, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Missing budget item
Dear Foundation Management: Why do you have no budget items for directly downloading Wikipedia's information into my brain? Please correct this omission. Thank you. Hair Pilot 07:22, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
- Seconded! I don't want a neural interface, but a synthetic speech option for desktop and mobile when people don't have access to a Kindle would be great. 99.34.78.140 03:50, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
