Reports/WMRU-Financial-2015

Non-Commercial Partnership of promotion of distribution of encyclopedic knowledge Wikimedia RU is a legally independent Russian Non-Governmental organization. Wikimedia RU is the part of the international Wikimedia Movement, all the participant of which share mission of collection, creation, management and dissemination of freely-accessible knowledge. Therefore, most activities of Wikimedia RU are related to the Wikipedia Internet Encyclopedia, the Wikipedia Movement's most important achievement up to date.

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Report on used funds

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  • Spendings of money received from Russian organizations and Russian citizens
    • Wikipedia 2015 & Free Knowledge prizes: 261 000 RUB
    • WLM 2015: 40 000 RUB
    • WLE 2014: 50 000 RUB
    • Wikimania 2015 participation: 186 000 RUB
    • CEE Meeting participation: 13 000 RUB
    • Wikimedia Conference participation: 2 000 RUB
    • Auditing: 123 000 RUB
    • Banking: 25 000 RUB
    • Office rent: 393 000 RUB
    • Know Moscow w/Wikipedia competition: 130 000 RUB
    • Genera spendings related to activities: 101 000 RUB
    • Salary and payments to related state foundations: 948 000 RUB
    • Taxes: 235 000 RUB
  • Spendings of money received from commercial activities[1]
    • Wikiconference 2015 conference: 130 000 RUB
    • Scientific-practical conference "Wikipedia and information society": 241 000 RUB
    • WLM 2015 creative competition: 170 000 RUB
    • 15 years to Bashkir Wikipedia creative competition: 14 000 RUB

  1. According to the law, it includes money received from sponsors of the conferences