User talk:Jayen466/Archives/2017/July

Do you want your name and account linked?
Hi, I'm helping out at Signpost and selected an article for ITM that happens to be written by Andreas Kolbe. Should I link it here? - Bri (talk) 03:41, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for helping out at the Signpost. I assume you mean the Register piece; if so, feel free to link my name to my user page. Best, --Andreas JN 466 10:40, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Note though that the May Signpost piece you reference in the draft was published in May 2016, and was based on the prior year's Form 990. --Andreas JN 466 23:59, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out. Do you know why the two publications just happened to have picked up the story now? _ Bri (talk) 00:10, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Every year, the WMF is required by law to publish a Form 990. The May 2016 Signpost article you referenced followed last year's release of the 2014-2015 Form 990. Arguably the biggest news evident from the 2014-2015 Form 990 was Sue Gardner's compensation, hence the Signpost article focused on that. We requested and received further clarification from the WMF, as quoted in that Signpost article.
 * The 2015-2016 Form 990 was released in May 2017; hence the Register article in early June 2017, focused on the severance payments to Möller, Sicore and others, which hadn't been public knowledge until then. They became public for the first time in the 2015-2016 Form 990.
 * Forms 990 are supposed to be published 5 months after the end of the financial year (the WMF financial year ends on June 30), but organisations can request up to two three-month extensions, and the WMF generally does so. This is why its Form 990 is generally published in May, almost a full year after the end of the financial year. Unless the WMF does a quicker turnaround next year, the 2016-2017 Form 990 will become available in May 2018, and it will show Lila Tretikov's severance payment – more than two years after the event (because, as explained in the email announcement, information related to key employees is published on a calendar-year rather than financial-year basis, with the 2016-2017 Form 990 covering the 2016 calendar year). Cheers, Andreas JN 466 20:50, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

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