I think Ellie mentions more information on this whole selection process and whatnot will be put on the wikis soon.
I'm sure they'll provide more insight into this whole discussion, helping reducing the guesswork, I think.
On Sunday, March 13, 2016, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
Hi Isaac,
I mentioned the chapter scholarships, because they are distributed /on top of/ those distributed by the scholarships of the WMF. This is one of the reasons why the global north gets a lower percentage.
I don't know if there /are/ formulae for distribution on a lower level than global north/global south. Maybe the country is less important than what the applicants bring to the conference, and what they expect to learn there.
My point is, this is all guesswork - until we have actual data and more information.
Lodewijk
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 11:05 PM, <reachout2isaac@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','reachout2isaac@gmail.com');> wrote:
Hi Lodewijk,
You might be right but I don't see where it was published that scholarships are actually distributed through chapters. Even if that's the case, did Turkey, Central America, South America, Mexico, and the Middle East have multiple chapters? Why did Wikimedia ZA got one full and one partial scholarships? In what ratio were the scholarship shared? What is the distribution formulae? Sincerely, the sharing formulae remain a mystery to me.
Best,
Isaac
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Hi Isaac, running such statistics is always a bit tricky. You make lots of assumptions. One being that the number of serious applications is distributed in a certain way. As I understand it, the quality of the application also plays a role, which can definitely impact distribution between countries. Fact is, that there is right now simply not enough information to draw conclusions.
Also please note that many many scholarships are actually distributed through chapters - which gives even an odder distribution across countries, letting applicants in some countries benefit over the fact that there is an active office in their country that can run a budget of sufficient size. Some chapters try to compensate for that by also allowing applicants from a selection of other countries (like Poland does). So for a real analysis, one should include all these too.
Lodewijk
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:43 PM, <reachout2isaac@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','reachout2isaac@gmail.com');> wrote:
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?
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