[Foundation-l] [Announcement] Sloan awards Wikimedia USD 1m annually for three years

Thu Mar 27 18:57:34 UTC 2008

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:15 AM, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So we are safe w/o ads for another three years (minimum). Enuff about dat!
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You don't seem to realize that the current budget is 4.5 million, which
would be 60% growth over actual expenses in 2007.  The growth has been
slowing; it was +80% from 2006 to 2007 and +300% from 2005 to 2006, but it
wouldn't be unreasonable to see budgets in the $7-10 million range within
the next several years.

The $1m/yr for 3 years from the Sloan Foundation is very important, and will
hopeful encourage other large donations, but it would be a mistake to assume
that in and of itself this is enough to resolve all future questions about
the WMF's financing.

-Robert Rohde