If your visa application was denied this year for Wikimania, guess what!<div><br></div><div>You&#39;re automatically joining next year&#39;s Wikimania. Now you know you&#39;ve been accepted to Wikimania 2018 in South Africa, I think we all have 365 days to get our Visa.</div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;m yet to learn any embassy in the world with more than a year visa application waiting time. ZA it is!</div><div><br></div><div>Nice move from the WMF. Thanks Katherine.<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>Andy Mabbett</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk">andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk</a>&gt;<br>Date: Friday, August 11, 2017<br>Subject: [Wikimania-l] Scholarships for people whose visa were declined<br>To: &quot;Wikimania general list (open subscription)&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>&gt;, Wikimedia Mailing List &lt;<a href="mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>&gt;<br><br><br>Katherine Maher just announced at Wikimania 2017 that all scholarship<br>recipients who were unable to obtain a visa, will be automatically<br>granted a scholarship for Wikimania 2018.<br>
<br>--<br>Andy Mabbett<br>@pigsonthewing<br>
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