WMF have sent another reminder to Olaf Kosinsky on 4 April 2016 after I complained to the IRS.
Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Olaf_Kosinsky#Overdue_grant_report
Overdue grant report
Hi Olaf,
I am writing to check in on the grant you got in February 2014 to photograph members of the EU Parliament. It sounds like it was a very successful project, both in terms of getting high quality images and in filling important content gaps and in coordinating a project with volunteers and funding from so many different chapters. Did you know more than half of the images of Parliament members from this project are currently in use on 3,147 pages? I'd love to hear about other ideas you might have for high-impact photography projects.
The final report for this grant was due over a year ago, on January 8th 2015, and records show you have 4,261 Euro remaining from the grant.
Please follow the steps below to close this grant:
- Submit reciepts for 5,739 Euro that has been spent.
- Make arrangements to return unspent funds to the WMF as soon as possible.
- Add missing information to the measures of success table in the report. I have added most information, the only thing missing is the number of new articles created using project images.
It is imperative that you submit this report and return unspent funds as soon as possible, both to maintain our financial records and for you to remain eligible for future grants.
Let me know if you are missing reciepts or have other concerns about the report so that we can set up a phone call to come up with a plan to close the grant together.
--KHarold (WMF) (talk) 18:15, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
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On Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 11:03:32 PM UTC+5:30, toby.dollmann wrote:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Olaf_Kosinsky
received $13,655.00 Funded start: 2014-02-02 end:2014-02-07
Yet, report is past due for "Grants:PEG/Olaf Kosinsky/Wikipedians in
European Parliament"
A complete waste of donors money eg. "The potential to get new
volunteers is low but not zero, by the personal contact to real
Wikipedians some visitors might become more interested any might start
editing".
On January 03, 2015, it was reported that one of the program areas
targeted for grant cuts is for all LGBT programs. In general, we at
Wikipedia Editors Forums support the proposed grant cuts in WMF aid
for the area except for this and ask for greater scrutiny of local
chapters.
We at Wikipedia Editors Forum believe that the donors need to know
what their dollars are really paying for when it comes to PEG
transparency in local chapters. We believe, based on numerous
published news reports, audits, government reports, and other
documentation, that WMF franchised local chapters are rife with error,
inefficient, and wasteful. We will describe some of this evidence
below.
It may seem counter-intuitive that the Wikipedia Editors Forum "WEF"
with deep roots in local communities would support cuts grants to the
communities. but we believe there is another huge side to this story
that is not being adequately told, yet. WEF says in too many cases,
it's more like "bureaucrat support" rather than chapter support.
It is our belief that as the system stands now, tens of thousands of
Wikipedians suffer, and the donors are paying huge sums of their
hard-earned dollars for inaccurate performance and, too frequently,
fudged reporting.
We believe there is little effective oversight of these programs with
chapter data in disarray,
We believe that the chapters need to be scrutinized and held legally
accountable for errors and unfair practices. They need to be as
accurate and as fair as a bank and held financially accountable, as
are banks.
Toby
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