Visswaprabha,'2012 Washington DC, 2014 London, 2015 Mexico.'and for how many of those did you get a scholarship?KudpungOn 30 May 2018, at 13:28, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <viswaprabha@gmail.com> wrote:Just for the information of all those who read this thread,I did not get selected this year through the normal scholarship filtration process. I happen to be among those who could not attend Wikimania 2017 at Montreal, even after going through all these bashing and grillings and then obtaining a valid scholarship last year, due to the so called 'Canadian visa' problem.So, for me, scholarship to Wikimania 2018 was an automatic fall-in. Please reset your counters.My total Wikimania participation till date:2012 Washington DC, 2014 London, 2015 Mexico.
Regards,User:Viswaprabha_______________________________________________On 30 May 2018 at 06:19, cs <cs@edubkk.org> wrote:I am also concerned about the same people repeatedly receiving scholarships, and this is by no way of complaining that I did not receive one.As I said last year however, I believe it is also inappropriate to inform applicants that they have been placed on a short list. Not only does this raise false hopes, but as many applications are based on the users' intentions to submit a presentation, it incurs a serious waste of volunteers' time.I also believe that active Wikipedia users who have financed their own participation in the conference multiple times should also be given priority consideration.I fully understand that the according of scholarships is a complex and difficult task. As a former volunteer scholarship approvals committee member, I think I have some experience in these maters.Not one single Wikimania has been organised without serious issues which often result in attendees’ negative experience.Perhaps the solution would be to have the entire concept of Wikimania place in the hands of an experienced volunteer task force of former conference organizers, presenters, and attendees who will have learned from previous errors and adminstartive organisational hiccups. Funds should also be made available for face-to-face meetings for the organisation of such an important event.Having a truly executive Board of Trustees rather than one that simply rubber stamps the way the WMF works, in this and most other areas, may be a step towards addressing these issues.KudpungOn 30, May2018, at 01:59, Gheorghe Zugravu <zugravu.gheorghe@gmail.com> wrote:Wikimania-l mailing listOn 29.05.2018 20:33, praveenp wrote:I haven't seen any attempt to share the knowledge and wisdom acquired
from Wikimania to community through mailing list or wiki. Users
including me generally feel that community is being mocked on.
Hi to all,
without being too original here, and following praveenp comments - would
be good to encourage recipients of WMF scholarship to organize some type
of Wikimania follow-up activities back in their groups or chapters.
I do believe that most of them are doing it anyway without any
requirements from WMF, but if majority would do it - we could have
something as a ”permanent Wikimania” unfolding globally for a couple of
months after the official Wikimania.
regards,
/gheorgheHi,
As I have said last year, this is not a complaint that I didn't get
selected. This is not personal. This is about same persons receiving
Wikimania scholarship year after year repeatedly. I am just using
familiar user names from a familiar community, who got many repeated
scholarships.
Even after I argued that none of these 'permanent scholarship
receivers' sharing anything to community, I haven't seen any attempt
to share the knowledge and wisdom acquired from Wikimania to community
through mailing list or wiki. Users including me generally feel that
community is being mocked on.
I tried to keep myself away from local discussion about this, but
injustice is so clear. And nobody is ready to discuss it openly, most
probably because of the 'incompetency shaming' in almost all replies.
~user:Praveenp
On Tuesday 29 May 2018 11:19 PM, Lodewijk wrote:
Given the context of the previous email you sent, I am assuming this
is more a complaint that you didn't get selected than that the other
two got selected.
Similarly to the previous time you tried to have this discussion - I
feel uncomfortable to make this about individuals.
Is there a way to give rejected applicants more feedback on which
factors play a main role, so that they can learn from it, especially
if there is something they could improve in their application. I would
add two sidenotes here though: it should only be provided on request
(no need to rub people's noses into something unnecessarily) and it
seems only viable at a level that can be easily extracted from the
process (high level).
Perhaps someone who knows the scholarship committee's work intimately
could comment.
Best,
Lodewijk
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:21 AM, praveenp <me.praveen@gmail.com
<mailto:me.praveen@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
Congratulation to all the selection committee who break the
tradition[1] of selecting one of the Malayalam communities two
permanent Wikimania attendees, by selecting both of them.
Congratulation to User:Netha Hussain & User:viswaprabha also.
[1] "Granting Scholarship to same persons every year" thread,
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2017- May/008026.html
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2017- >May/008026.html
~User:Praveenp
On Tuesday 15 May 2018 11:19 PM, Ellie Young wrote:
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All,
Here's an update on various activities pertaining to the
upcomingWikimania '18 which is being held July 18-22 in Cape Town,
South Africa.
WMF Scholarship Program: 135 people were offered and subsequently
accepteda full or partial scholarship to attend. The awardees are
listed by usernames and the list is posted
here:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_ scholars<https://meta. wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/ Wikimania_scholars> Submissions:
The program committee has just finished its review anddeliberations.
Rejections and acceptance emails have gone out in the past week.
95% of the accepted submissions are listed at:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program
<https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program >
Plenaries and other sessions will be listed soon and a scheduled
program in June.
Registration and accommodation information is now up for everyone
at:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Registration<https:// wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Registration>https:// wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Accommodation<https:// wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Accommodation>If
you are a scholarship or other WMF funded attendee (staff,
contractor,board, etc), please wait until you hear from the WMF with
your registrationand accommodation instructions.If you have any
questions about the conference, please emailwikimania-info at
wikimedia.org<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/ >Pleaselistinfo/wikimania-l
spread the word!!!!On behalf of the Wikimania '18 Organizing Team
Ellie YoungEvents Manager, Wikimedia
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