Hi all,
Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2014 in London are now being
accepted. Applications are open until the end of the day UTC on 17 February.
Wikimania 2014 scholarships is an award given to an individual to enable
them to attend Wikimania in London from 6-10 August, 2014.
Only a single type of scholarship will be available from the Wikimedia
Foundation for Wikimania 2014. A Wikimedia Foundation scholarship will
cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel costs as arranged by
the Wikimedia Foundation travel agency, shared accommodation as arranged
by the Wikimedia Foundation, and registration for Wikimania.
Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and
selection criteria by the Scholarship Committee, who will determine
which are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2014 scholarships,
please visit <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>.
To apply for a scholarship, fill out the application form on
<http://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply>. It is highly recommended that
applicants review all of the material on the Scholarships page and the
associated FAQ before submitting an application.
If you have any question, please contact
<wikimania-scholarships(a)wikimedia.org> or leave a message on
<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships>.
Katie Chan
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Hello,
During the last week or so, Wikimedia Sverige's gendergap project has had some media attention. We've had some interest from the media before, mainly before some of our editathons for women (which we've so far had about half a dozen, and will hold many more in the future). But now the interest has started to build, which is good.
WMSE's project leader Axel Pettersson and Swedish Women's Lobby's representative Johanna Dahlin was interviewed in Sweden's largest tabloid, Aftonbladet:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/wendela/kvinnaoman/article18259664.ab
And the same day, their columnist wrote a positive piece on the gendergap issue:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/wendela/kronikorer/asaerlandson/article18259284.ab
Some background:
During December and January, I and others have written a series of blog posts about women on Wikipedia, on Wikimedia Sverige's blog. We collected them here. So far, we've covered these topics:
* Brainstorming on multipluralism on Wikipedia – thoughts on editathons
* Does it matter that Wikipedia has a gendergap?
* Why don't women edit Wikipedia?
* How do we get more women to edit Wikipedia?
* Ten reasons for women edit Wikipedia, part 1
* Ten reasons for women edit Wikipedia, part 2
* Ten reasons for women to edit Wikipedia (short version)
* Ten topics for women to write about on Wikipedia
They have been read by thousands of people so far, and have been some of our most read blog posts. And more posts are coming. I haven't checked out how Google Translate treat these texts, but if there are any questions, please send them to me, since I have written most of them :-)
I have also been to a norm critical course and shared my notes from there, here: https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anteckningar_fr%C3%A5n_Transversala_dialoger (I have still to add the notes from the last session, but I will get to it eventually.) Some material (including links) there could be helpful for others as well, including some group self analysis tools.
Also, the discussion on our Facebook group has started to include these topics more frequently, as well as the general discussion on Wikipedia (although a bit less). This is a start, but we're not finished yet. When the budget for this year is approved, we'll know more.
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
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All,
I read this article with some concern. Thoughts?
http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/29/california-regulator-seeks-to-shut-down-l…
Of course, hackathons and editathons in the Wikimedia space are typically
offered for free, but I don't know from the article whether that makes a
difference. (The article doesn't have anything to say about what
"compliance" entails.)
Interested in learning more about what's going on here.
Pete
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It would be great if we could get a few more online volunteers to help with
the editathons on February 1 on-wiki and in the #Wikimedia-gendergap
channel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism#Online_partic…
(Of course, if you can attend a live event, that's great too!)
Thanks,
Pharos
Looks like this worked itself out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Newman
;-).
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