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...
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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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