I'm a bit worried about Ellie Young's comment that "Geographic regions are *not* the emphasis of the program."
My understanding of Wikimania Scholarship program is that Full scholarships are subject to quotas, while there is usually no geographical or linguistic limit to partial scholarships.
However, final approval for Full Scholarships is based on the applicant's home country, each applicant will be categorized as either a Global North or Global South applicant, with the total number of scholarships distributed between the Global North and Global South being set at 25% and 75% respectively.
The Global South includes Asia (with the exception of Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan), Turkey, Central America, South America, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East (with the exception of Israel). If 124 scholarship was awarded, and 75% is expected to be awarded for global south, it means, 93 Wikimedians are expected to get the scholarship from these region. Since global south consists of Turkey, Central America, South America, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East, then no fewer than 15 Wikimedians are expected to get scholarship from Africa. Unless I'm missing something. If only 4 Wikimedians got scholarship from Africa, where are the 89 scholarships?
Warmest regards,
Olatunde Isaac.
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I'm a bit worried about Ellie Young's comment that "Geographic regions are *not* the emphasis of the program."
My understanding of Wikimania Scholarship program is that Full scholarships are subject to quotas, while there is usually no geographical or linguistic limit to partial scholarships.
However, final approval for Full Scholarships is based on the applicant's home country, each applicant will be categorized as either a Global North or Global South applicant, with the total number of scholarships distributed between the Global North and Global South being set at 25% and 75% respectively.
The Global South includes Asia (with the exception of Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan), Turkey, Central America, South America, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East (with the exception of Israel). If 124 scholarship was awarded, and 75% is expected to be awarded for global south, it means, 93 Wikimedians are expected to get the scholarship from these region. Since global south consists of Turkey, Central America, South America, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East, then no fewer than 15 Wikimedians are expected to get scholarship from Africa. Unless I'm missing something. If only 4 Wikimedians got scholarship from Africa, where are the 89 scholarships?
Warmest regards,
Olatunde Isaac.
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Dear Ellie Young
Thank you for this information.
Aside, the parameter used for your calculation which is the no of eligible applicants from Africa. I am of the opinion that your parameter only window dress the effect of the selection to show that the selection is fair to Africa.
However, if you used "Total Number of Scholarships awarded against the number of African selected" you will noticed that we only have 3%. Though, we may not have the voice to push through our points, but the fact remains the selection is just unfair to the world second largest continent. http://www.africapedia.com/-SIZE-OF-AFRICA-COMPARED-TO-OTHER-CONTINENTS.
Though, you mentioned that "Geography regions are "not" the emphasis of the program'. In my opinion, this is the missing link in the organisation of the event year in year out. No wonder, some continents are fast developing while others are struggling. I
Let's take a clue...
Olaniyan Olushola
Director, WUGN
Treasurer, FOSSFA
MD, Olbims Consulting
Phone: +2348154876844
Email: olaniyanshola15@gmail.com|olaniyanshola@yahoo.com|treasurer@fossfa.net
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Isla,
I am in the process of putting up information from the scholarship
committee onto the wiki and will respond to the other thread on wikimania-l
soon.
124 Scholarships were awarded.
Of the 400 scholarships that passed into Phase 2 of the review, 20 were
African applicants passed Phase 2. 4 of those got scholarships, so by my
calculations that's 20% of the eligible African applicants.
Geographic regions are *not* the emphasis of the program.
You might want to take this up directly with the Scholarship Committee if
you have ideas for changes to the program in the future?
Ellie Young
WMF Events Manager
on behalf of the Scholarship Committee
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Isla Haddow Flood <isla(a)wikiloveswomen.org>
wrote:
> Okay - so - of 170 potential full and partial scholarships offered by the
> WMF, Africa got 4.
>
> FOUR.
>
> that is 0.02% of what was on offer.
>
> Mexico I could understand was difficult to access. BUT you couldn’t get
> closer to Africa than Italy, if you tried.
>
> That is just not acceptable.
>
>
> On 11 Mar 2016, at 3:50 PM, Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I got a partial scholarship which means I wont have to pay to be at the
> conference venue but I will have to pay for my own flight.
>
> On 11 March 2016 at 15:43, Ian Gilfillan <wikimediaza(a)greenman.co.za>
> wrote:
>
>> I applied, also didn't get.
>>
>> On 11/03/2016 14:46, Isla Haddow Flood wrote:
>>
>> Hello All
>>
>> Just want to do a quick head count to see who got a scholarship to attend
>> Wikimania. Please just let us know who got one, and who didn’t.
>>
>> thanks!
>> Isla
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> African-Wikimedians mailing list
>> African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Douglas Ian Scott
> 司道格
> Skype: douglas0scott
> South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
> _______________________________________________
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>
>
> *Isla Haddow-Flood*
> Project Manager: WikiAfrica
> Username: Islahaddow
>
>
>
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eyoung(a)wikimedia.org
c. 510 701 8649
I'm a bit worried about Ellie Young's comment that "Geographic regions are *not* the emphasis of the program."
My understanding of Wikimania Scholarship program is that Full scholarships are subject to quotas, while there is usually no geographical or linguistic limit to partial scholarships.
However, final approval for Full Scholarships is based on the applicant's home country, each applicant will be categorized as either a Global North or Global South applicant, with the total number of scholarships distributed between the Global North and Global South being set at 25% and 75% respectively.
The Global South includes Asia (with the exception of Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan), Turkey, Central America, South America, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East (with the exception of Israel). If 124 scholarship was awarded, and 75% is expected to be awarded for global south, it means, 93 Wikimedians are expected to get the scholarship from these region. Since global south consists of Turkey, Central America, South America, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East, then no fewer than 15 Wikimedians are expected to get scholarship from Africa. Unless I'm missing something. If only 4 Wikimedians got scholarship from Africa, where are the 89 scholarships?
Warmest regards,
Olatunde Isaac.
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Dear Ellie Young
Thank you for this information.
Aside, the parameter used for your calculation which is the no of eligible applicants from Africa. I am of the opinion that your parameter only window dress the effect of the selection to show that the selection is fair to Africa.
However, if you used "Total Number of Scholarships awarded against the number of African selected" you will noticed that we only have 3%. Though, we may not have the voice to push through our points, but the fact remains the selection is just unfair to the world second largest continent. http://www.africapedia.com/-SIZE-OF-AFRICA-COMPARED-TO-OTHER-CONTINENTS.
Though, you mentioned that "Geography regions are "not" the emphasis of the program'. In my opinion, this is the missing link in the organisation of the event year in year out. No wonder, some continents are fast developing while others are struggling. I
Let's take a clue...
Olaniyan Olushola
Director, WUGN
Treasurer, FOSSFA
MD, Olbims Consulting
Phone: +2348154876844
Email: olaniyanshola15@gmail.com|olaniyanshola@yahoo.com|treasurer@fossfa.net
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Isla,
I am in the process of putting up information from the scholarship
committee onto the wiki and will respond to the other thread on wikimania-l
soon.
124 Scholarships were awarded.
Of the 400 scholarships that passed into Phase 2 of the review, 20 were
African applicants passed Phase 2. 4 of those got scholarships, so by my
calculations that's 20% of the eligible African applicants.
Geographic regions are *not* the emphasis of the program.
You might want to take this up directly with the Scholarship Committee if
you have ideas for changes to the program in the future?
Ellie Young
WMF Events Manager
on behalf of the Scholarship Committee
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Isla Haddow Flood <isla(a)wikiloveswomen.org>
wrote:
> Okay - so - of 170 potential full and partial scholarships offered by the
> WMF, Africa got 4.
>
> FOUR.
>
> that is 0.02% of what was on offer.
>
> Mexico I could understand was difficult to access. BUT you couldn’t get
> closer to Africa than Italy, if you tried.
>
> That is just not acceptable.
>
>
> On 11 Mar 2016, at 3:50 PM, Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I got a partial scholarship which means I wont have to pay to be at the
> conference venue but I will have to pay for my own flight.
>
> On 11 March 2016 at 15:43, Ian Gilfillan <wikimediaza(a)greenman.co.za>
> wrote:
>
>> I applied, also didn't get.
>>
>> On 11/03/2016 14:46, Isla Haddow Flood wrote:
>>
>> Hello All
>>
>> Just want to do a quick head count to see who got a scholarship to attend
>> Wikimania. Please just let us know who got one, and who didn’t.
>>
>> thanks!
>> Isla
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> African-Wikimedians mailing list
>> African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Douglas Ian Scott
> 司道格
> Skype: douglas0scott
> South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
> _______________________________________________
> African-Wikimedians mailing list
> African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
>
>
> *Isla Haddow-Flood*
> Project Manager: WikiAfrica
> Username: Islahaddow
>
>
>
--
Ellie Young
Events Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
eyoung(a)wikimedia.org
c. 510 701 8649
I'm a bit worried about Ellie Young's comment that "Geographic regions are *not* the emphasis of the program."
My understanding of Wikimania Scholarship program is that Full scholarships are subject to quotas, while there is usually no geographical or linguistic limit to partial scholarships.
However, final approval for Full Scholarships is based on the applicant's home country, each applicant will be categorized as either a Global North or Global South applicant, with the total number of scholarships distributed between the Global North and Global South being set at 25% and 75% respectively.
The Global South includes Asia (with the exception of Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan), Turkey, Central America, South America, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East (with the exception of Israel). If 124 scholarship was awarded, and 75% is expected to be awarded for global south, it means, 93 Wikimedians are expected to get the scholarship from these region. Since global south consists of Turkey, Central America, South America, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East, then no fewer than 15 Wikimedians are expected to get scholarship from Africa. Unless I'm missing something. If only 4 Wikimedians got scholarship from Africa, where are the 89 scholarships?
Warmest regards,
Olatunde Isaac.
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Isla,
I am in the process of putting up information from the scholarship
committee onto the wiki and will respond to the other thread on wikimania-l
soon.
124 Scholarships were awarded.
Of the 400 scholarships that passed into Phase 2 of the review, 20 were
African applicants passed Phase 2. 4 of those got scholarships, so by my
calculations that's 20% of the eligible African applicants.
Geographic regions are *not* the emphasis of the program.
You might want to take this up directly with the Scholarship Committee if
you have ideas for changes to the program in the future?
Ellie Young
WMF Events Manager
on behalf of the Scholarship Committee
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Isla Haddow Flood <isla(a)wikiloveswomen.org>
wrote:
> Okay - so - of 170 potential full and partial scholarships offered by the
> WMF, Africa got 4.
>
> FOUR.
>
> that is 0.02% of what was on offer.
>
> Mexico I could understand was difficult to access. BUT you couldn’t get
> closer to Africa than Italy, if you tried.
>
> That is just not acceptable.
>
>
> On 11 Mar 2016, at 3:50 PM, Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I got a partial scholarship which means I wont have to pay to be at the
> conference venue but I will have to pay for my own flight.
>
> On 11 March 2016 at 15:43, Ian Gilfillan <wikimediaza(a)greenman.co.za>
> wrote:
>
>> I applied, also didn't get.
>>
>> On 11/03/2016 14:46, Isla Haddow Flood wrote:
>>
>> Hello All
>>
>> Just want to do a quick head count to see who got a scholarship to attend
>> Wikimania. Please just let us know who got one, and who didn’t.
>>
>> thanks!
>> Isla
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> African-Wikimedians mailing list
>> African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Douglas Ian Scott
> 司道格
> Skype: douglas0scott
> South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
> _______________________________________________
> African-Wikimedians mailing list
> African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
>
>
> *Isla Haddow-Flood*
> Project Manager: WikiAfrica
> Username: Islahaddow
>
>
>
--
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eyoung(a)wikimedia.org
c. 510 701 8649
Dear Ellie Young
Thank you for this information.
Aside, the parameter used for your calculation which is the no of eligible applicants from Africa. I am of the opinion that your parameter only window dress the effect of the selection to show that the selection is fair to Africa.
However, if you used "Total Number of Scholarships awarded against the number of African selected" you will noticed that we only have 3%. Though, we may not have the voice to push through our points, but the fact remains the selection is just unfair to the world second largest continent. http://www.africapedia.com/-SIZE-OF-AFRICA-COMPARED-TO-OTHER-CONTINENTS.
Though, you mentioned that "Geography regions are "not" the emphasis of the program'. In my opinion, this is the missing link in the organisation of the event year in year out. No wonder, some continents are fast developing while others are struggling. I
Let's take a clue...
Warmest
Olaniyan Olushola
Director, WUGN
Treasurer, FOSSFA
MD, Olbims Consulting
Phone: +2348154876844
Email: olaniyanshola15@gmail.com|olaniyanshola@yahoo.com|treasurer@fossfa.net
User page: Olaniyan Olushola
Facebook: Olaniyan Shola
Twitter :Olaniyan73
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Isla,
I am in the process of putting up information from the scholarship
committee onto the wiki and will respond to the other thread on wikimania-l
soon.
124 Scholarships were awarded.
Of the 400 scholarships that passed into Phase 2 of the review, 20 were
African applicants passed Phase 2. 4 of those got scholarships, so by my
calculations that's 20% of the eligible African applicants.
Geographic regions are *not* the emphasis of the program.
You might want to take this up directly with the Scholarship Committee if
you have ideas for changes to the program in the future?
Ellie Young
WMF Events Manager
on behalf of the Scholarship Committee
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Isla Haddow Flood <isla(a)wikiloveswomen.org>
wrote:
> Okay - so - of 170 potential full and partial scholarships offered by the
> WMF, Africa got 4.
>
> FOUR.
>
> that is 0.02% of what was on offer.
>
> Mexico I could understand was difficult to access. BUT you couldn’t get
> closer to Africa than Italy, if you tried.
>
> That is just not acceptable.
>
>
> On 11 Mar 2016, at 3:50 PM, Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I got a partial scholarship which means I wont have to pay to be at the
> conference venue but I will have to pay for my own flight.
>
> On 11 March 2016 at 15:43, Ian Gilfillan <wikimediaza(a)greenman.co.za>
> wrote:
>
>> I applied, also didn't get.
>>
>> On 11/03/2016 14:46, Isla Haddow Flood wrote:
>>
>> Hello All
>>
>> Just want to do a quick head count to see who got a scholarship to attend
>> Wikimania. Please just let us know who got one, and who didn’t.
>>
>> thanks!
>> Isla
>>
>>
>>
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I did not apply so I obviously did not get the scholarship.
Kayode Yussuf
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I applied, also didn't get.
On 11/03/2016 14:46, Isla Haddow Flood wrote:
> Hello All
>
> Just want to do a quick head count to see who got a scholarship to
> attend Wikimania. Please just let us know who got one, and who didn’t.
>
> thanks!
> Isla
>
Hello,
I've got a full scholarship.
Best regards,
Habib from Tunisia
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>I applied, also didn't get.
>
>On 11/03/2016 14:46, Isla Haddow Flood wrote:
>> Hello All
>>
>> Just want to do a quick head count to see who got a scholarship to
>> attend Wikimania. Please just let us know who got one, and who
>didn’t.
>>
>> thanks!
>> Isla
>>
>
>
I will attend wikimania this year :)
Mounir Touzri
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> From: Raphael Berchie <rberchie(a)gmail.com>
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> So where did the other 73% go?
>
> *Raphael Berchie*
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> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Isla Haddow Flood <
> isla(a)wikiloveswomen.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Okay - it is 2%,
> > but it is still insulting.
> >
> > On 11 Mar 2016, at 4:18 PM, Isla Haddow Flood <isla(a)wikiloveswomen.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Okay - so - of 170 potential full and partial scholarships offered by the
> > WMF, Africa got 4.
> >
> > FOUR.
> >
> > that is 0.02% of what was on offer.
> >
> > Mexico I could understand was difficult to access. BUT you couldn’t get
> > closer to Africa than Italy, if you tried.
> >
> > That is just not acceptable.
> >
> >
> > On 11 Mar 2016, at 3:50 PM, Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > I got a partial scholarship which means I wont have to pay to be at the
> > conference venue but I will have to pay for my own flight.
> >
> > On 11 March 2016 at 15:43, Ian Gilfillan <wikimediaza(a)greenman.co.za>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I applied, also didn't get.
> >>
> >> On 11/03/2016 14:46, Isla Haddow Flood wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello All
> >>
> >> Just want to do a quick head count to see who got a scholarship to
> attend
> >> Wikimania. Please just let us know who got one, and who didn’t.
> >>
> >> thanks!
> >> Isla
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
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> > 司道格
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> > South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
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Dear All,
I support Flo suggestion in totality. If Wikimania didn't look our side. Then, we must encourage ourselves by coming together to look at the development of the movement in Africa in term of projects implementation and what have you..
I will be glad if we could put up a committee to cater for the modalities needed for the event.. This committee should include at least one person from countries with active participation in wikimedia project in Africa.
Expecting more comments.
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I didn’t either. so Who did???
> On 11 Mar 2016, at 3:22 PM, Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org> wrote:
>
> I am curious to who got one from Africa....
>
> Ok. Looks like we need a WikiIndaba :)
>
> Florence
>
> Le 11/03/16 14:14, Aminou Ndala TITA a écrit :
>> Hello Isla,
>>
>> I didnt get a scholarship and I dont know anyone from Cameroon who did.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ndala
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, March 11, 2016 2:06 PM, Kangah Donatien KOFFI <donatien.kanga(a)gmail.com> <mailto:donatien.kanga@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Anyone in Côte d'Ivoire didn't get a scholarship.
>>
>> 2016-03-11 13:03 GMT+00:00 Raphael Berchie <rberchie(a)gmail.com <mailto:rberchie@gmail.com>>:
>> Hello Isla I didn't get a scholarship and do not know anyone in Ghana too who did.
>> On 11 Mar 2016 12:46, "Isla Haddow Flood" < <mailto:isla@wikiloveswomen.org>isla(a)wikiloveswomen.org <mailto:isla@wikiloveswomen.org>> wrote:
>> Hello All
>>
>> Just want to do a quick head count to see who got a scholarship to attend Wikimania. Please just let us know who got one, and who didn’t.
>>
>> thanks!
>> Isla
>>
>> Isla Haddow-Flood
>> Project Manager: WikiAfrica
>> Username: Islahaddow
>>
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I didn't get.
Thanks.
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Thank you.
2016-03-09 23:17 GMT+00:00 Alex Wang <awang(a)wikimedia.org>:
> Apologies. Updated hyperlink:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Imple…
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Alex Wang <awang(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> In August, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure
>> of WMF grant programs.
>>
>> Next steps for implementing changes based on the consultation are now
>> available:
>>
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Imple…
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Outco…>
>>
>> Important dates to note:
>>
>> 1 May: Rapid Grants launch; submission forms available for new Project
>> Grants program
>>
>> 30 May: Last day to apply for a grant under the current Project & Event
>> Grants program
>>
>> 1 July: Project Grants and Conference Support launch
>>
>> Come read about the timeline and next steps for implementing changes
>> based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the
>> discussion page.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alex
>>
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