Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2017-10-23/News and notes

Fundraising report
The WMF have published the fundraising report for 2016–2017. US$91 million was raised from 6.1 million donations – an increase of $13.8 million over the 2015–2016 total. The designated place for public discussion of the report, clarifications of finance, conspiracy theories, or calls for the Wikimedia Foundation or wiki community to attract or repel donors is at Meta-Wiki. Comments or rants about spending rather than the income are accepted annually on the latest page for the annual plans; 2017-18 is closed but watch Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan to comment in the next round. Other opportunities to inspect finances and speak up include reviewing Wikimedia community grant applications, overseeing the activities and finances of Wikimedia chapters and usergroups, or doing your own investigative journalism and writing for The Signpost.

Strategic direction
After many months and cycles of discussions, a strategic direction has emerged from the 2017 Movement strategy:

Comments and criticisms, on the final and previous versions, proliferate the talk page.

Endorsements will be sought on 26 October, with discussions on implementation to begin in November.

New office for Wikimedia Foundation headquarters
On Friday 20 October 2017 Katherine Maher announced that the Wikimedia Foundation had shifted location. The current Wikimedia Foundation headquarters is at One Montgomery Tower in the Financial District of San Francisco, a 10-minute walk from the previous location. One reason for the new location was to move into a smaller space.

Brief notes

 * New administrators: The Signpost welcomes the English Wikipedia's newest administrators, and . Both were supported by more than 200 Wikipedians in their requests for adminship.
 * New user-groups: The Affiliations Committee announced the approval of the newest Wikimedia movement affiliates, Open Foundation West Africa and Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia.
 * Milestones: The following Wikipedia projects reached milestones: 2,000: Russian Buryat (25 September 2017); 50,000: Luxembourgish (10 September 2017).
 * Milhist milestone: WikiProject Military history recently surpassed 1,000 featured articles in the project's scope, which is  approximately one fifth of all FAs on the English Wikipedia.