The Transparent Wiki

Regarding our discussion of funding and transparency, check out Wikimedia budget for 2005 for information how the Wikimedia Fundation (the fundation supporting Wikipedia) is spending its money - the money which comes from you (donations). It is not that difficult to tell citizens where their money is going - even in details (see Wikimedia servers/hardware orders for details of the hardware we ordered after our last fundraising drive). It would be even more preferct if we had scans of receipts and such, but I think it is definetly a good sign how funding should be dealt with - not only by NGOs, but by government as well.

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