We expect to post the usernames of the scholarship recipients in the next two weeks or so
on:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars#2014_Wikimani…
Still waiting for people to register, get their visas, and book travel before we truly
know who are finally going to attend.
It's no small understaking for WMF to try to get everyone (staff, scholarship
recipients, etc.) registered, hotel, and travel arrangements done in a very short amount
of time. You will probably see a surge of people indicating on that page below that
they are attending by the end of the month.
Ellie Young
WMF Conference Coordinator
On Jun 9, 2014, at 2:00 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Nice, all WMPL scholarships are public. :)
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Attendees/100
Ellie Young, 02/05/2014 19:29:
On May 2,
2014, at 9:22 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Attendees is still basically
empty. I've not yet decided whether to attend Wikimania this year; a major factor will
be who I can meet/do something with there (together with accommodation cost).
This will go up when registration goes live next week. It is an
opt-in list and we will encourage people as best we can to use it.
Still seeing almost nobody among WMF scholarships (less than 20), or even among WMF staff
for that matter. Looks like a very inefficient use of resources to require hundreds of
contacts and edits to add information that WMF already has and can post with one edit,
making the conference more effective at no cost.
Nemo
Therefore, WMF scholarship administrators, please
paste the list of already-funded scholarship recipients (usernames) on the page. Knowing
what bunch of wonderful Wikimedia volunteers already got selected will be very
inspiring/compelling. (I believe WMF staff attendees were already decided as well? Chapter
scholarships and affiliates' attendees can be added later.)
Cf.
* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/Vision_2015>
*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/SWOT_2005-2014_and_goals_for_2015>
(read again if you missed past discussions and/or you're thinking of boycotting my
summer planning ;) ).
Nemo
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