Funded activities should align with the movement's strategic priorities , must be consistent with the WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, must be reported to WMF, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement. The WMF mission is "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. Each entity that receives FDC funding will need to complete this report on a quarterly basis, which seeks to determine how the funding received by the entity is leading towards these goals.
The information you provide will help us to:. The purpose of this section is to provide a brief overview of this report.
Please use no more than paragraphs to address the questions outlined below. You will have an opportunity to address these questions in detail elsewhere in this report. These may include successes, challenges, lessons learned. The activity of the quarter met the objectives that were set at the beginning of the quarter. However, as often as we can, we try to support other projects in which French editors are active : Wikisource, through the Wikigrenier "Wiki-attic" project; Wikitionary edit-a-thons in Lyon, which will soon become weekly events, or the support given to the Wiktionary newsletter launched in April Micro-funding of projects for volunteers is also very much put forward and advertised for so that each volunteer is able to develop their own projects related to any Wikimedia project.
Last but not least, during this quarter, more partners showed interest in Wikidata, especially from the French Ministry for Education. The FDC requires information about how your entity received and spent money over the past year. The FDC distributes general funds, so your entity is not required to use funds exactly as outlined in the proposal.
While line-item expenses will not be examined, the FDC and movement wants to understand why the entity spent money in the way it did. If variance in budgeted vs. This helps the FDC understand the rationale behind any significant changes. Note that any changes from the Grant proposal, among other things, must be consistent with the WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, must be reported to WMF, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
