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Annual Compass 2017
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 » Goals and objectives for the compass and financial plan 2017

This page is a translation of Wikimedia Deutschland's Annual Plan 2017. It includes the goals and objectives resolved by our Supervisory Board and the Financial Plan 2017, which awaits approval from our general assembly on November 26.

WMDE Annual Plan 2017

 
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Focal Point 1: Attract and retain new volunteers for Wikimedia projects

Goal: Increase the number of volunteers active in Wikipedia through an online campaign which motivates the highest possible number of Wikipedia readers to engage as active editors.

Objective:

  1. In the course of 2017, the monthly increase of new editors with ten+ edits (and thus passing the ‘new editor threshold’) reaches or surpasses the monthly increase of the respective 2016 months.>/div>

Focal Point 2: Support volunteers in Wikimedia projects

Goal 1: Continue volunteer support services and facilitate access to support, including for volunteers active in Wikipedia’s sister projects.

Objectives:

  1. Through increased awareness and accessibility of our support services the number of individuals active in projects who apply for support rises (baseline Q3 2016 compared to Q3 2017).
  2. WMDE supports at least three projects benefitting major non-German speaking user populations (e.g. refugees).

Goal 2: Further develop volunteer support services to improve the program’s contribution to the viability and quality of Wikimedia projects.

Objectives:

  1. 100 % of volunteer support applications receive a final response within three weeks of submitting a complete proposal.
  2. To continuously improve support services, WMDE surveys all applicants and project leaders, assessing the usefulness of services and gathering suggestions for improvement. Results will be published quarterly and will inform the further development of support services that is done jointly with the community.
  3. In order to effectively shape our project collaboration with volunteers, WMDE continues the development of guidelines for support services together with the supported community members.

Focal Point 3: Expand Wikidata and further develop MediaWiki

Goal 1: Continue to assure the technical and social sustainability of Wikidata (software and community) as the central, structured knowledge data base for the Wikimedia movement and beyond.

Objectives:

  1. The quality and quantity of data in Wikidata as well the health of the community continue to develop positively based on the key performance indicators for content, usage, community and quality.
  2. Jointly with the Wikidata community, WMDE supports a minimum of one institution to contribute to and to use Wikidata, publishes related success stories and motivates additional institutions beyond 2017 to contribute to Wikidata.

Goal 2: Continue to increase the reach of Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects.

Objectives:

  1. The usage of data from Wikidata by sister projects continues to increase according to the key performance indicators for usage and community.
  2. A key condition for the move of Wikimedia Commons towards structured data is the commitment of the Commons community. WMDE, jointly with the Commons community, develops a plan for the migration of unstructured Commons data.
  3. A key technical condition for the future support of Wiktionary through Wikidata is the ability to store lexicographical data in structured manner in Wikidata. By the end of 2017, this ability is assured and first lexicographical data sets are stored in Wikidata.

Goal 3: Continue development of MediaWiki jointly with the Wikimedia communities and the Wikimedia Foundation, so that volunteers are able to utilize the software effectively. This work includes the focus on community technical needs, sustained quality assurance and strengthened connections with Wikimedia communities internationally.

Objectives:

  1. The WMDE Software Development Department continuously implements solutions to user requests based on the ‘technical wishlist’, utilizing periodic feedback iterations.
  2. By the end of 2017, WMDE tests, evaluates and publishes a variety of support formats for volunteer developers.

Focal Point 4: Strengthen legal and political conditions for free knowledge

Goal 1: The political climate affecting the Wikimedia movement becomes increasingly conducive to helping promote movement goals around free knowledge.

Objectives:

  1. WMDE influences a minimum of ten relevant political decision-makers who previously did not have positive positions regarding free knowledge; as a result they issue specific statements of interest or intent that WMDE is able to utilize for free knowledge advocacy.
  2. WMDE’s political network includes a high level, responsible decision-maker from each interest group that we have identified as relevant.
  3. WMDE reviews the premises of its political positions covering the policy areas of education, science and culture, and expands on the respective arguments through publication of at least two statements or studies.

Goal 2: The legal and policy conditions for free knowledge have been improved.

Objectives:

  1. WMDE successfully influences the development of essential policies and laws related to the re-use of content without permission (“Open by default”) which, as a result, will benefit collaboration in the Wikimedia movement. This is done through providing impulses, consultation and new policy development.
  2. WMDE begins to work with at least five key institutions on the reform and new development of policies, regulations and procedures so that they favor free knowledge.

Focal Point 5: Together with communities, liberate content through cooperation with institutions

Goal 1: In order to provide access to content, work with communities to enter into cooperations and sustainable partnerships with cultural and memory institutions.

Objectives:

  1. Through cooperation with institutions and with volunteers, data sets are made available for Wikimedia projects, and are re-used a minimum 5,000 times in the Wikimedia projects by the end of 2017.
  2. Experiences from these cooperations are shared in published success stories, in order to encourage additional institutions to contribute content for Wikimedia projects.

Goal 2: Improve our existing resources around information and consultation for cultural and memory institutions, and develop, based on needs, similar resources for the educational and science fields, so institutions are enabled to generate and make available open content.

Objectives:

  1. At least six cultural and memory institutions take advantage of our consultation, information and educational services.
  2. Jointly with volunteers, WMDE develops and tests the implementation of one new resource each for the fields of science and educational institutions.
  3. 80% of scientific institutions that host fellows as part of the pilot phase Open Science Fellows Program implement further steps towards Open Science (seminars, research projects, publications, and working groups) within six months.

Financial Plan 2017

  Total
1.  Focal Point 1: Attract and retain new volunteers for Wikimedia projects 337,018 €
Goal: Increase the number of volunteers active in Wikipedia through an online campaign which motivates the highest possible number of Wikipedia readers to engage as active editors.
2.  Focal Point 2: Support volunteers in Wikimedia projects 988,749 €
(incl. 492,000 € in subsidies)
Goal 1: Continue volunteer support services and facilitate access to support, including for volunteers active in Wikipedia’s sister projects.
Goal 2: Further develop volunteer support services to improve the program’s contribution to the viability and quality of Wikimedia projects.
3.  Focal Point 3: Expand Wikidata and further develop MediaWiki 1,843,434 €
Goal 1: Continue to assure the technical and social sustainability of Wikidata (software and community) as the central, structured knowledge data base for the Wikimedia movement and beyond.
Goal 2: Continue to increase the reach of Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects.
Goal 3: Continue development of MediaWiki jointly with the Wikimedia communities and the Wikimedia Foundation, so that volunteers are able to utilize the software effectively. This work includes the focus on community technical needs, sustained quality assurance and strengthened connections with Wikimedia communities internationally.
4.  Focal Point 4: Strengthen legal and political conditions for free knowledge 528,370 €
Goal 1: The political climate affecting the Wikimedia movement becomes increasingly conducive to helping promote movement goals around free knowledge.
Goal 2: The legal and policy conditions for free knowledge have been improved.
5.  Focal Point 5: Together with communities, liberate content through cooperation with institutions 341,649 €
Goal 1: In order to provide access to content, work with communities to enter into cooperations and sustainable partnerships with cultural and memory institutions.
Goal 2: Improve our existing resources around information and consultation for cultural and memory institutions, and develop, based on needs, similar resources for the educational and science fields, so institutions are enabled to generate and make available open content.
6.  Indirect Cost & Program Support Cost 3,235,537 €
7.  Risik Liquidity 133,326 €
Total(s) 7,408,082 €

Additional Information

Revenues

Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. (WMDE) Updated plan 2017 Plan 2017 Plan 2016 Change
Donations 2,500,000 € 2,500,000 € 2,489,528 € 0%
Membership fees 2,450,000 € 2,166,163 € 1,260,000 € 94%
WMF APG 139,599 € 279,198 € 1,500,000 € -91%
WMF (Wikidata) 1,267,500 € 1,200,000 € 0 €
WMF PEG (Wikimedia Conference) 251,066 € 145.365 € 152,193 € 65%
BMBF contract (OER) 0 € 0 € 65,000 € -100%
Fundraising management overhead 30,417 € 30,417 € 217,274 € -86%
Major Gifts 0 € 0 € 0 €
External Grants 282,000 € 0 € 15,000 € 1780%
Other Revenue 50,000 € 41,000 € 0 €
Wikidata Grant 437,500 € 437,500 € 501,600 € -13%
Carry over 0 € 0 € 0 €
Total Revenue 7,408,082 € 6,799,643 € 6,200,595 € 19%
Total Expenses 7,408,082 €
Balance 0 €
WMFG Plan 2017 Plan 2016 Change
Projected Revenue from donations July-December (1) 9,600,000 € 9,441,647 € 2%
Donations January - June 789,000 € 2,014,993 € -61%
Donations July-December 10,320,000 € 9,441,647 € 9%
Interest 200 € 8.000 € -98%
Total Revenue 20,709,200 € 20,906,287 € -1%
thereof fundraising management overhead for operations 841,236 € 1,122,077 € -25%
Total Expenses 20,709,200 € 20,906,287 € -1%
thereof transfer payments to WMDE and WMF 19,867,964 € 19,784,210 € 0%
thereof expenses for operations 841,236 € 1,122,077 € -25%
Balance 0 €
Balance of operations 0 €
(1) Projected revenue from donations to be collected July to December 2016 to be expected in 2017.

Expenses

Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. (WMDE) Updated plan 2017 Plan 2017 Plan 2016 Change
Education, Science & Culture 551,682 € 549,598 € 607,758 € -9%
Volunteer Support 1,054,818 € 942,772 € 901,469 € 17%
International Relations 237,693 € 215,106 € 218,982 € 8%
Communications 794,741 € 714,114 € 412,374 € 93%
Legal / Policy 311,182 € 216,640 € 141,570 € 120%
Board of Directors 157,526 € 107,497 € 111,414 € 41%
Software Development 1,923,613 € 1,852,373 € 1,682,159 € 14%
Administration - Finance 232,143 € 208,425 € 118,242 € 96%
Administration - Front Office 731,632€ 621,516 € 605,414 € 21%
Administration - IT 294,455 € 298,515 € 297,176 € -1%
Administration - HR (incl. Works Council) 271,363 € 235,298 € 227,328 € 19%
Administration - Event Management 166,280 € 153,976 € 131,590 € 26%
Office of the ED 319,993 € 315,576 € 388,653 € -18%
Partnerships and Development 227,634€ 234,910 € 241,527 € -6%
Risk Liquidity 133,326 € 133,326 € 114,940 € 16%
Total 7,408,082 € 6,799,643 € 6,200,595 € 19%
Wikimedia Fördergesellschaft (WMFG) Plan 2017 Plan 2016 Change
Transfer payments to WMDE und WMF (2) 19,867,964 € 19,784,210 € 0.4%
Operations 841,236 € 1,122,077 € -25%
Total 20,709,200 € 20,906,287 € -1%
2) Projected revenue from donations to be collected July to December 2016.

FTE

FTEs (incl work study students, excl. interns) Plan 2017 Plan 2016 Change
Education, Science & Culture 7.550 10.050 -25%
Volunteer Support 7.200 6.400 13%
International relations 1.800 1.800 0%
Communications 6.125 4.625 32%
Legal / Policy 2.000 1.000 100%
Board of Directors 0.925 0.925 0%
Software Development 26.125 24.250 8%
Administration - Finance 2.725 1.745 56%
Administration - Front Office 2.675 2.630 2%
Administration - IT 2.125 2.125 0%
Administration - HR (incl. Works Council) 2.525 2.505 1%
Administration - Event Management 2.950 3.000 -2%
Office of the ED 2.750 3.750 -27%
Partnerships & Development 3.600 3.600 0%
Total WMDE 71.075 68.405 4%
Total WMFG 6.125 5.100 20%
Total WMDE+WMFG 77.200 73.505 5%
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