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==General report==
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<center><font face="Palatino,Verdana,Arial" size=4>'''Letter from the Board'''</font></center>
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<small>''By [[user:Anthere|Anthere]]''</small>
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To start with, here is a brief summary of our financial state at the end of 2004:
In 2004, our global revenues were US$150,000, while expenses reached about US$123,000 dollars. The [
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To date, most of our income has come from individual donations, ranging from US$5.00 to US$20.00 dollars. These donations have come from editors and readers who appreciate what we are doing. The success of our fundraising suggests that our growth can still essentially be supported by individual donations.
Other revenues included grants and sponsorship. Our most recent grant was from the '''[http://rlounsbery.org/default.asp Lounsbery Foundation]'''. An important issue with regard to grants and donations is that the Wikimedia Foundation has finally been classified as a public charity, and granted tax exempt status by the IRS. This will certainly offer new incentives to potential grantors. During the first months of 2005, an IRC meeting was held on grant issues, and we considered looking for a Grants Manager for the Foundation. Later in the quarter, Wikimania, the first international meeting organised by and for wikipedians (taking place in August), was granted its first sponsorship, from '''Gurunet.'''
With our existing funds, we purchased some [
A new expense is ''salary''. Since early 2005, the Foundation has been employing two part-time developers, '''Chad Perrin''' and '''
The [[Privacy policy]] on all Wikimedia projects was approved at the last Board meeting. It will be translated in all languages and made visible to users and visitors over the next few weeks.
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;Latest meetings:
{{Latest meetings}}▼
* [[Meetings/October 1, 2005|Budget meeting]], October 1, 2005
*[[Budget/2005 Budget meeting]]|*See also this recent list of [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_agenda/Open_questions open questions to the board].▼
* [[Meetings/August 27, 2005|Open meeting]], August 27, 2005
* [[Meetings/August 18, 2005|Chapters]], August 18, 2005
* [[Meetings/August 14, 2005|Q3 finances]], August 14, 2005
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*[[Budget/2005|Budget meeting]]
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===Collaboration===
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We are in discussions with two organisations about the possibility of offering '''on-demand book printing''' from Wikipedia. One of these organisations printed a Wikireader on Frankfurt during Wikimania for a test. Our current concern is that by doing so, we are potentially stepping beyond the protections of the DMCA and running an unacceptably high level of copyright risk. So, we are currently moving at slow speed on the matter.
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Answers.com and Wikimedia Foundation will form a new partnership beginning of year 2006. 1-Click Answers, Wikipedia Edition'' software will be linked from the [[w:en:Wikipedia:Tools|English Wikipedia Tools]] page. Please see the [http://www.answers.com/main/ir/press10202005.jsp press release] by Answers.com and [[w:en:Wikipedia talk:Tools/1-Click Answers|discussion]] for more information. The
We also previously reached an agreement in last spring to provide a live feed of our public data to '''Answers.com''', live feed which is still currently under work for full operability (
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====Top rank sales for Directmedia DVD of German Wikipedia====
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After the succesful distribution of the [[w:de:|German Wikipedia]] on CD, the German publishing company [[w:Directmedia|Directmedia]] has released a DVD edition. The DVD is based on a snapshot of the wiki from March 3, which was quickly reviewed to remove potential copyright violations, vandalism and templates which are only useful in the online version of Wikipedia. Structured bibliographic information about key people, a new feature added for the CD distribution, was also added for more people.
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Effort has recently been put into improving the public collection of presentation materials. Anthere crafted a leaflet in French with [[m:User:Notafish|Notafish]] for the [[m:TIC21|TIC21]] meeting in January 2005. Elian later released a collection of leaflets to be translated for the Fosdem meeting.
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The full collection of current material may be found in three collections, for [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presentations presentations], [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Promotion promotion], and [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leaflet leaflets]. Most of this information may now be found in English, German, French and Dutch. Please add to these in other languages.
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General report
to be written
Overview
Board meetings
A complete list of notes from Board meetings may be seen at meetings.
- Latest meetings
- Budget meeting, October 1, 2005
- Open meeting, August 27, 2005
- Chapters, August 18, 2005
- Q3 finances, August 14, 2005
- Budget meeting
- See also this recent list of open questions to the board.
Collaboration
Summary on collaboration
We worked out a number of collaborations with other organisations in the past six months, and are discussing many more.
We are in discussions with two organisations about the possibility of offering on-demand book printing from Wikipedia. One of these organisations printed a Wikireader on Frankfurt during Wikimania for a test. Our current concern is that by doing so, we are potentially stepping beyond the protections of the DMCA and running an unacceptably high level of copyright risk. So, we are currently moving at slow speed on the matter.
Answers.com and Wikimedia Foundation will form a new partnership beginning of year 2006. 1-Click Answers, Wikipedia Edition software will be linked from the English Wikipedia Tools page. Please see the press release by Answers.com and discussion for more information. The announcement raised some very critical comments, from editors and in the press (see [2]]. Explanation in French : [3].
We also previously reached an agreement in last spring to provide a live feed of our public data to Answers.com, live feed which is still currently under work for full operability (Brooke Vibber is currently working with them to make this happen).
Public Relations
Organisation
To be written
The road ahead
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