Hey everyone,
After Käbi's announcement, I would like to share with you more about the changes we are bringing to the scholarship process for Wikimania 2024!
What’s new this year?
Splitting affiliate staff and volunteer review process:
- To ensure fairness in the scholarship review process, we will be reviewing volunteer applications separately from those of paid affiliate staff. Paid staff's achievements should not be compared to volunteers' achievements.
- Paid affiliate staff are still eligible for the scholarship, but their contributions will be considered against other staff members only, maintaining fair competition for everyone.
Giving more powers to the Wikimedia Hubs:
- Given the Wikimedia Hubs' natural understanding of their local communities, we decided to include them in the scholarship process.
- After the scholarship subcommittee publishes scholarship decisions, we will allow for each currently active Wikimedia Hub [1] to delegate 1-3 additional Wikimedians to receive a scholarship.
- We do this to help ensure regional diversity amongst scholarship recipients. We will all benefit from Hubs’ regional knowledge in this matter. We hope that this will lead to a more diverse background of scholarship recipients and will bring a unique mix of participants to our event.
Thank you for your engagement, we are looking forward to your applications! CEE you at Wikimania 2024!
[1] The list is to be decided by the Core Organizing Team after conversations with relevant stakeholders
Cheers!
In the name of the Wikimania 2024 Core Organizing Team
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