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Resolution: Fundraising 2012 — Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki
- Key
- wmf2012fundraising
- Issued
- 2012-3-30
- Type
- webpage
- Container
- Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki
- Publisher
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Raw CSL JSON
{
"URL": "https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_2012",
"note": "Primary institutional record of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, independent of Wikimedia Deutschland though internal to the Wikimedia movement. Defines which chapters could process payments from 2012 to 2016. Passed the same day as the resolution creating the Funds Dissemination Committee; approved by seven trustees, opposed by one, with two abstentions including Arne Klempert.",
"type": "webpage",
"title": "Resolution: Fundraising 2012",
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
2012,
3,
30
]
]
},
"accessed": {
"date-parts": [
[
2026,
8,
28
]
]
},
"language": "en",
"publisher": "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.",
"title-short": "WMF fundraising resolution 2012",
"container-title": "Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki"
}
Claims
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The resolution describes chapter fundraising on the Wikimedia project sites as "payment processing" — the capability some chapters developed to collect donations from visitors to those sites — and states that it should be considered only where it adds sufficient value to the movement to offset the significant additional time and money required from both the chapter and the Foundation. The four chapters that had payment processed the previous year, Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia France, Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia CH, could continue provided they met the criteria in the Board's letter of August 2011 and signed the annual fundraising agreement, with compliance determined by the Foundation's Executive Director. The Board asked the Executive Director to allow no additional chapters to payment process until it revisited the framework in late 2015, ahead of the November 2016 campaign. The vote was seven in favour, one opposed and two abstentions, the abstainers being Bishakha Datta and Arne Klempert.
"Some chapters have developed the capability to collect donations from visitors to Wikimedia project sites ("payment processing"), and other chapters have expressed an interest in doing so. [...] The four chapters that payment processed last year (Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia France, Wikimedia UK, and Wikimedia CH) will continue to be able to payment process, as long as they meet the criteria laid out in the Board's August 2011 letter and sign the annual fundraising agreement. Compliance with the criteria will be determined by the Executive Director. We ask the Executive Director not to allow any additional chapters to payment process, until the Board revisits the framework for fundraising and payment processing in late 2015"
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