United Nations from Wikimedia
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The Wikimedia movement behind the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is getting a new center: The Wikimedia Chapters Association (WCA) settles in Geneva and hopes to create a counterbalance to the headquarters of the Wikimedia Foundation, based in San Francisco. Before the new organization but must clarify their finances.
The WCA is an association of national organizations Wikimedia. 21 of a total of 39 so-called Chapter have already joined the new body. The national organizations have no direct responsibility for the Wikipedia, the main servers are operated in single director of the Wikimedia Foundation. They instead serve as a focal point for public and community in each country to organize events and advocacy. Wikimedia Germany, by far the largest and oldest organization Wikimedia, the implementation of the Wikipedia database facts Wikidata took over.
In recent years, it was more often come to inconsistencies between the headquarters of the Wikimedia Foundation and the national organizations. Now, the U.S. foundation has officially restricted their field significantly in order to focus more on the Wikipedia - in this gap will advance the WCA. In addition it must still overcome organizational barriers. This system has also created new funds Dissemination Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation, which draws up recommendations for the international allocation of resources of the Wikimedia community, initially canceled all membership fees from the budget proposals of the national organizations because the organization had not yet been legally established.
On request of H explained Catrin Schone Ville of Wikimedia Germany that the WCA is not yet endangered - either you want to seek other sources of funding or apply in a second round of funding from the Wikimedia Foundation to the funds. Namely, the Chapter itself soliciting donations, the main source of income is the annual giving campaign in Wikipedia. Which had in the German Wikipedia edition begun in mid-November, this week moved to the Wikimedia Foundation: A total of 25 million U.S. dollars will take the U.S. foundation so.
After strong growth in recent years, some countries organizations fast the belt. Thus slashed the UK Chapter of the Wikimedia budget proposal of nearly 920,000 U.S. dollars to 536,000 U.S. dollars in September after several dubious businesses executives were known. Wikimedia France got instead of the requested $ 960,000 even awarded only 94,000 U.S. dollars, but wants to review its spending plans and re-submit. Wikimedia Germany to the WCA fee all planned expenditure was initially approved and will receive 1.79 million U.S. dollars from the central source of donations. For the continuation of the project, however, the Germans must Wikidata independently seek major donors.
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