If the amount is privately shared with the recipient, I could see some
value in that (appreciation, as you mention). However, please also consider
the flipside: it may make some people feel guilty about accepting the
money, or they may take it as a hint that they shouldn't accept the
scholarship because it is so expensive. This would be a great pity. I'm not
entirely sure whether the benefits would outweigh the risks - but it's a
consideration worth making.
Lodewijk
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 2:11 AM Rehman Abubakr <rehman.wikimedia(a)live.com>
wrote:
Hello,
I was a former Wikimania scholarship recipient. To put it briefly, the
Wikimania experience was something that I deeply value and will forever
cherish. Somewhat sadly though, it is only after quite some years after
Wikimania that I actually realised the value of the scholarship award (in
monetary terms), that too with loose estimates done by myself purely out of
curiosity.
Would it make sense to include the approximate total monetary value of the
scholarship award (airfare, lodging, insurance, logistics, etc) within the
scholarship award emails to the recipients? I feel this would give much
deserving weight in the award itself, as I'm sure many of us isn't aware of
the actual amount of resources that is put in a given person's award.
Yours truly,
*Rehman Abubakr (Roy) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>*
OTRS agent, Admin (English Wikipedia, Commons), Contributor (Wikidata,
Meta)
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