Risker is right.
You can't publish such a table this year because it would break the promises made to
applicants who were declined.
You could start a discussion on meta, and make a proposal to publish such data for future
Wikimanias. I'd hope you wouldn't get consensus, but if you did we could then
monitor the effect on the 2018 Wikimania. If the requirement to publish details on
unsuccessful applicants as well as successful ones was deterring a significant proportion
of applicants, or deterring certain types of applicants such as applicants from particular
countries, then I'd hope 2019 would revert to the obviously superior system of not
publicly listing the people who applied for scholarships but were declined. I do
appreciate that in the future historians studying Wikipedia would really appreciate this
data, and I can see the point of putting it in a sealed archive and publishing after all
concerned have probably died. I'm not sure I see the point in publishing it now, if
people are concerned about fairness then get someone you trust to run for the scholarship
committee.
Regards
WereSpielChequers
On 19 Apr 2017, at 04:14, Risker
<risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would like the Wikimedia Foundation NOT to do that. Our user privacy is to be
respected. People who applied for scholarships had every reason to expect that the WMF
would not publish their names if they were not awarded one, for example. Nobody who
applies is guaranteed a WMF scholarship; however, several other organizations actively
provide scholarships to community members who did not receive a WMF scholarship.
Transparency does not require putting users into embarrassing or awkward situations, and
many users who applied for scholarships may not have done so if they were told that the
names and details of their application would be published. The scholarship committee is
made up largely of volunteers, and they don't deserve the inevitable brickbats that
would be thrown their way if particularly vocal members of the community disagreed with
their decisions. And it's a given that just about every member of the community will
disagree with one or more decision made by the committee. So no, please don't publish
any details of any application, or how any individual candidate was assessed. That's
not transparency.
Risker/Anne
On 18 April 2017 at 22:51, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja
<pavanaja(a)vishvakannada.com> wrote:
Hello,
I would like WMF to make the list of applicants, their contributions, the weightage used
for each kind of contribution and the final list of scholarship awardees in a table form.
Since WMF is run by the contributions of the volunteers, such a transparency is definitely
needed from WMF. I hope WMF will oblige.
Regards,
Pavanaja
From: Wikimania-l [mailto:wikimania-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ellie
Young
Sent: 19 April 2017 01:23 AM
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Subject: [Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarships to attend Wikimania
Everyone who applied for a scholarship to Wikimania '17 has been notified about the
status. If you have not heard, please check your spam filter, or send email to ask about
the status to: wikimaniascholarships(a)wikimedia.org
April 18 is the deadline for people who were offered a scholarship to respond.
A final list of everyone who was awarded and able to accept will be posted to on the wiki
in early May.
We expect registration for Wikimania '17 to go live on or before May 1st.
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Ellie Young
Events Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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