Wikimedia Deutschland/Movement Reporting/Finances
| Overview | Volunteers | Software Development | Conditions for Free Knowledge | Wikimedia Movement | Finances |
*** This is Wikimedia Deutschland's 2018 midterm report to the Wikimedia Movement, covering the time period from January 1st - June 30th 2018. For the full-year report for 2018 please go to Wikimedia Deutschland Movement Report 2018. ***
As we are phasing out of the APG process and towards a different form of movement reporting, the financial tables have been simplified (from previous APG formats) and aligned with our existing internal accounting data. After the closeout of the fiscal year 2018 we will provide a full balance sheet and audit statement (including revenues). Please note that since we do not close our books at the end of June, these numbers are preliminary.
| WMDE Expenses 2018 (as of 27.07.2018) | |||||||||
| Programs | Expense type | Budgeted 2018 | Actual: Q1 + Q2 | Percentage of budget spent | Explanation of variances from plan | ||||
| Program: Attract, Support and Retain Volunteers | |||||||||
| Goal 1: The Wikipedia Community resumes growth. New volunteers feel welcomed, are motivated and contribute to Wikipedia. | Nonpersonnel expenses | 966,000 € | 1,820,000 € | 327,952 € | 623,358 € | 33.94% | 34.25% | ||
| Goal 2: We continue WMDE’s volunteer support services while developing these services further, together with communities. Our community and project support services become more effective and benefit a greater diversity of groups. In this manner we make it easier for volunteers to contribute to Free Knowledge. | Personnel expenses | 854,000 € | 295,406 € | 34.59% | |||||
| Program: Software Development: Wikidata and MediaWiki | |||||||||
| Goal 3: Increasing numbers of volunteers in the Wikimedia projects benefit from Wikidata. We promote the integration of Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects, and we create the conditions so that data quality in Wikidata can further improve. | Nonpersonnel expenses | 287,000 € | 1,681,000 € | 160,699 € | 907,948 € | 55.93% | 54.02% | ||
| Goal 4: Wikidata and other open data projects increasingly benefit from each other. To this end, we make Wikidata and Wikibase easier to use for external projects, and we expand the opportunities for collaboration among the projects. | |||||||||
| Personnel expenses | 1,394,000 € | 747,249 € | 53.62% | ||||||
| Goal 5: Through sustainable development of the MediaWiki Software, based on community needs, we assure the increased usefulness of MediaWiki for the Wikimedia projects, jointly with the Wikimedia Foundation and the communities. | |||||||||
| Program: Strenghthen Conditions for Free Knowldedge | |||||||||
| Goal 6: We get to the bottom of concerns about the use of open content. Misunderstandings that are revealed will be addressed with targeted information, while we address actual risks with appropriate measures. | Nonpersonnel expenses | 539,000 € | 1,476,000 € | 182,823 € | 595,976 € | 33.89% | 40.38% | ||
| Goal 7: In order to make it easier to recognize open and free content, regulations around copyright of public works are evaluated by German policy makers, with the aim of drafting new, more clear regulatory language. | |||||||||
| Goal 8: Factual, non personal data (such as weather and traffic data) remain freely usable by free knowledge projects in the future. The enabling policies and regulations remain in place, and disadvantageous policy is prevented or mitigated. | Personnel expenses | 937,000 € | 413,153 € | 44.11% | |||||
| Goal 9: Supported by WMDE, institutions in the fields of education, science and culture have the required knowledge to actively contribute to free knowledge and to the Wikimedia projects. The institutions create, jointly with our movement, supportive general conditions for free knowledge in their respective fields, and publicly act as role models for other institutions. | |||||||||
| Non-programmatic expenses | |||||||||
| Communications and fundraising | Nonpersonnel expenses | 371,000 € | 3,354,000 € | 38,889 € | 1,557,290 € | 10.48% | 46.43% | Since this budget line primarily consists of costs for welcoming packages for new members and the mailing of donation receipts, it is mainly accounted for in the second half of the year. | |
| Personnel expenses | 384,000 € | 206,435 € | 53.73% | ||||||
| Indirect expenses (e.g. rent, IT, operations, finance, membership administration and meetings, board of directors) * | Nonpersonnel expenses | 1,667,000 € | 824,772 € | 49.49% | |||||
| Personnel expenses | 932,000 € | 487,193 € | 52.29% | ||||||
| Total | _________ | 8,331,000€ | _______ | 3,684,572€ | 44.23% | ||||
General note:
* The allocation of costs for supplies, rent and utilities, trainings and recruiting to the specific budget line will only occur in the end of the year report.