I agree with Douglas on the need to increase the number of editors from Africa. This will
also help to improve the coverages of Africa-related contents on Wikimedia projects. Asaf
and Douglas, are you silently saying that among the continent/countries classified as
Global South, Africa have the poorest contributions to Wikimedia projects? We got 4
scholarships out of 93 because we have the least number of active editors? Even if we have
the least number of active editors, 3% quota is ridiculously too low.
Best,
Isaac
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I think Rexford and Asaf raise some good points here. If we are serious
about Africa having a stronger presence at future Wikimanias we must
improve our efforts at increasing the number of editors from the continent
whist encouraging more editors to apply for scholarships with high quality
applications. It's a long road to travel that requires a lot of work but I
feel that the rewards in terms of edits from African sources and
representation within the broader community make it well worth it.
Regards,
Douglas.
On 11 Mar 2016 23:13, "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Ellie for the short breakdown of the stats
in here. Will be on
standby for more of these stats to be put up on the wiki.
I think things will be more clearer when all the stats are up.
Thanks.
On 11 Mar 2016 7:25 pm, "Ellie Young" <eyoung(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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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