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Wikimédia Magyarország/State of the chapter

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This page shows a summary about the operations of Wikimedia Hungary from its inception in 2008 to Dec 31, 2013. It intented to be updated yearly onwards.

The last update was made in June 21, 2014.

Finances

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Revenues

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Below only the fiscal incomes are listed, the non-fiscal donations (like reduced fees, free room/equipment usage, etc.) were not priced.

Membership fees showing when the payment was received, what is not necessarily the year it was paid for.

Where the exact amount was not recoverable, the table rounds to thousands resulting in minor discrepancies.

"1%" means tax donations (Every year, 1% of the income tax from last year can be donated to civil organizations in Hungary)

Year reported income donations WMF/FDC grants other grants membership fees other
2008 150 526 85 000
66 000
20091 2 306 182 1 277 000 936 000 ($4700)
78 000 15 000 (interests)
20101 11 118 000 5 100 000x 1 184 000 ($6250) 448 000 (Civil Alap)
4 300 000 (ISZT)
43 000 98 000 (interests)
2011 11 989 000
168 000 826 000 (1%)
991 000 (to be specified)
2012 11 413 635 643 038 10 004 0001,y
106 000 188 600 (Wikicamp)
391 479 (interests)
80 266 (other)
1 340 055 (1%)
2013 11 523 216 103 900 10 176 0841,z
30 000 358 409 (interests)
24 000 (loans)
607 307 (1%)

1: grants received in 2009 and 2010 were used in the same year. From 2011 onwards, all grants were awarded for the next year
x: WM HU could keep 50% of the donations as per the payment processing agreement with WMF
y: 10,5M HUF was granted but only 10,04 transferred, the reason needs to be investigated as of june 21, 2014
z: 14,85M HUF was granted, but only ~10,18M was transferred after deducting the leftover from last year

WMF grants (any)

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Where US dollars are shown, the grant was awarded in US dollars. They were put in brackets to keep HUF in first place. Exchange rates to HUF are usually from the proposals themselves.

Year Requested Granted Transferred
2008
20091 ~946 000 ($4700) ~946 000 ($4700) ~946 000 ($4700)
20101 ~1 184 000 ($6250) ~1 184 000 ($6250) ~1 184 000 ($6250)
2011 0 0 0
2012 10 500 000 10 500 000 10 004 000
2013 14 850 000 14 850 000 10 176 084

1: grants received in 2009 and 2010 were used in the same year. From 2011 onwards, all grants were awarded for the next year

Expenses

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Year Total Programs Administration Other
2008 353
2009 399 157
20101 944 000
2011 5 230 000
2012 5 831 084 2 649 494 (45,44%) 3 181 590 (54,56%)
2013 6 630 481 1 841 345 (27,77%) 4 789 136 (72,23%)

Please compare the expenses to the projects table below before making any conclusions.

Projects

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Year Total Lectures Meetups Article writing contests Picture contests Other projects
0 0 0 0 0 0
2008 6 0 4 0 0 2 (inauguration and BME-OMIKK Library contract)
2009 16 0 10 1 1 (other) 4 (supporting the GFDL-CC switch, 2 IT testing, letter to MNB about the copyright status of formal banknotes)
2010 14 3 5 2 0 4 (book creation, establishing BME WikiLibrary, second letter to MNB, integration of the Lexicon of Literature of the Hungarians in Romania into huwiki)
2011 20 0 14 (inc. 10 year anniversary conference) 1 (editathon) 1 (WLM) 4 (toolserver creation, legal support, Arcanum, BME Library expansion)
2012 22 0 15 7 1 (photowalks) 0
2013 30 5 16 4 1 (WLM) 4 (evaluation workshop hosting, 2 QR-projects, "night of the civilians")

Note, varying definitions of "project" or "event" can vary the numbers greatly. In general the table above collects executed projects only. If there was a meetup (for example an awards ceremony) in relation to a project (for example an article writing contest) as the two events were related, they counted as 1 in the table above.

WM HU has only once cancelled a project, the WLM in 2012 (not listed above) as the government completely restructured this field making it impossible to reach an agreement with them on time. Our previous agreement did not allow us to reuse the data they shared with us in 2011. We could however renew our contract in 2013 under better than ever conditions.

In 2013 the owner of the project put on hold the József Bokros memorial award (also not listed above), as the agreement offered by the university we seeked to cooperate with was not acceptable for us and any further negotiations were cut short by them.

Note the "lectures" vary from single presentations to ongoing multi-year seminars. They were all counted as 1 project/each and only in the year when they were started, regardless if it is a continous (or repetitive per semester) or not. The same applies for all other continous projects.

Also notice, the numbers above are not weighted; a single meetup is equally counted as 1 as the far more complex WLM (which itself had multiple side projects and side effects, like the publication of the state owned monuments' database under a free licence) or the two QR projects from 2013

Sources

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