Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2017-2018/Final/Staff and Contractors

Staffing by department

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Table: Staffing Expenses by Department (Amounts are in thousands of USD)
Description FY16-17 Budget FY16-17 Forecast FY17-18 Plan
Advancement (Fundraising/Global Reach) 2,530 2,491 2,953
Community Engagement 4,387 4,175 4,973
Audiences (formerly Product) 13,162 13,461 12,018
Technology 8,129 7,154 11,843
Communications 1,389 1,111 1,382
Legal 1,747 1,360 1,760
Talent & Culture 1,733 1,457 1,907
Finance & Administration 2,727 2,474 2,677
Governance 435 507 539
Total Staffing Expenses 36,239 34,190 40,052

 

Table: Number of FTEs by department and major program areas
Description FY16-17 Approved FTEs FY17-18 Planned Total FTEs
Advancement (Fundraising/Global Reach) 22 24
Community Engagement 44 46
Audiences (formerly Product) 101 89
Technology 66 84
Communications 10 10
Legal 11 12
Talent & Culture 14 13
Finance/Administration/IT 21 22
Governance 2 2
Total # of FTEs 291 302

(This table represents number of positions open for each department)

Full-time employees by department and major program areas

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Technology

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Note: The Technology team is in the process of additional organizing their personnel allocation by departmental programs and cross-departmental programs in FY17-18. This will allow us to trial another aspect of programmatic planning and reporting. We have included the breakdown of the Technology department by team for comparison with the other departments.

Technology - by Team
Analytics 7.0
Research 7.0
Wikimedia Cloud Services 6.0
ORES (Scoring Platform) 2.0
Performance 5.0
Release Engineering 7.0
Security 5.0
Services Platform 4.0
TechOps / Core Ops 13.0
TechOps / DC Ops 3.0
TechOps / Traffic 3.0
MediaWiki Platform 4.0
Fundraising Tech 9.0
Search Platform 6.0
CTO 3.0
Total 84.0

Audiences (formerly Product)

Audiences (formerly Product)
Product 4.5
Program Management 1.0
Reading 28.7
Editing 32.0
Community Tech 6.0
Parsing 1.0
Design 1.0
New Readers 6.8
Community Health 4.0
Structured Data 4.0
Total 89.0

Community Engagement

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Community Engagement
Community Engagement 2.0
Community Resources 13.0[1]
Technical Collaboration 9.5
Learning and Evaluation 5.0
Wikipedia Library 1.0
Global Education 3.0
Community Programs 1.7
Support and Safety 7.2
Privacy and Security 0.2
Community Health 1.6
Structured Data 1.8
Total 46.0
  1. Please note that the second Community Resources headcount request to support grants is being filled by repurposing an existing requisition headcount.

Communications

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Communications
Communications Team 9.4
New Readers 0.6
Total 10.0
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Legal
Legal team 10.9
Community Health 0.2
Privacy and Security 0.9
Total 12.0

Advancement

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Advancement
Fundraising (Online fundraising, Major gifts, and Endowment) 16.1
Wikimedia Merchandise and Other Programmatic work 0.7
Strategic Partnerships and Global Reach 5.8
New Readers 1.5
Total 24.0

Governance

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Governance
Governance 2.0
Total 2.0

Talent & Culture

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Talent & Culture
Talent & Culture 10.5
Talent & Culture - Programmatic 2.5
Total 13.0

Finance & Administration

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Finance & Administration
Finance 9.3
Office Administration 7.0
Office IT 4.5
Privacy & Security 0.5
Finance - Programmatic Activities 0.8
Total 22.0