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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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:08:01 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Breakdown of attribution for scholarships
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