Wikimedia Foundation

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

17,500€

Financial year: Jul 2017 - Jun 2018

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.75 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

2

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Wikimedia Foundation   (WMF)

    EU Transparency Register

    596597913132-95 First registered on 03 Mar 2014

    Goals / Remit

    The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation 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, through websites like Wikipedia. In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.

    Main EU files targeted

    The Foundation is following the legislative process for a Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market as well as the Regulation on terrorist content online.

    Address

    Head Office
    1 Montgomery Street
    Suite 1600
    San Francisco 94104
    UNITED STATES
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    50%1
    25%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.75

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Mr Jan Gerlach (Senior Public Policy Manager)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Tony Sebro (Interim General Counsel)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jul 2017 - Jun 2018

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    17,500€

    Other financial info

    Our financial model is based on support from a broad number of individuals, rather than any specific large donors. During the 2017-2018 fiscal year, donations totaling approximately 90% of our revenue came in the form of small donations. We received more than 6 million donations. This gives us the independence to represent individuals, rather than the interests of specific large donors.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    High-Level Expert Group on Fake News#E03567 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3567 #Member #C#Sub Group 2 Roles and responsibilities of on line platforms

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    None

    Other activities

    The Foundation has not been involved in other substantial EU policy initiatives during the previous year. Wikimedia chapters, formed by European Wikimedia volunteers, may have chosen individually to become involved in EU initiatives.

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    2 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

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