Hi Dr Pavanaja,
Back in April you asked for a list of scholarship applicants and people explained why we only publicise the list of people who are awarded a grant, not the people whose applications are declined. The list of people awarded a grant has been published, your request for a list of applicants has not and hopefully won't ever be published. Nothing has changed. If people apply for a scholarship and are declined that remains a private matter between the applicant and the scholarship committee, unless of course the applicant chooses to say that they applied and didn't get a scholarship.
Regards
Jonathan
This was your email in April.
>>>
>>> I would like WMF to make the list of applicants, their contributions, the weightage used for each kind of contribution and the final list of scholarship awardees in a table form. Since WMF is run by the contributions of the volunteers, such a transparency is definitely needed from WMF. I hope WMF will oblige.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Pavanaja
> On 17 May 2017, at 06:07, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja <pavanaja(a)vishvakannada.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Long back when I asked for list of scholarship awardees, with their usernames, someone answered saying that the usernames of scholarship awardees can’t be disclosed. How come they have been disclosed now?
>
> Regards,
> Pavanaja
>
>
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>
> Here's an update on various activities pertaining to our the upcoming Wikimania '17 which is being held August 9-13 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
>
> WMF Scholarship Program: 110 people were offered and subsequently accepted a full or partial scholarship to attend. The awardees are listed by user names and the list is posted here:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars
>
> Submissions: The program committee has just finished it's review and deliberations. Rejections and acceptance emails are going out this week and next. We expect to post the program by the end of this month.
>
> Registration and accommodation information is now up for everyone at:
>
> https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
> https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodation
>
> If you are a scholarship or other WMF funded attendee (staff, contractor, board, etc), please wait until you hear from the WMF with your registration and accommodation instructions.
>
> If you have any questions about the conference, please email wikimania-info(a)wikimedia.org
>
> Please spread the word!!!!
>
> Thanks, Ellie
>
>
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You must have received faulty information. The recipients have always been
revealed, at least in past years.
Adrian Raddatz
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja <
pavanaja(a)vishvakannada.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Long back when I asked for list of scholarship awardees, with their
> usernames, someone answered saying that the usernames of scholarship
> awardees can’t be disclosed. How come they have been disclosed now?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Pavanaja
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Wikimania-l [mailto:wikimania-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Ellie Young
> *Sent:* 17 May 2017 12:49 AM
> *To:* Wikimania general list (open subscription); Wikimedia Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Wikimania-l] Update on Wikimania '17 - Scholarships,
> Registration, Submissions
>
>
>
> Here's an update on various activities pertaining to our the upcoming
> Wikimania '17 which is being held August 9-13 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
>
>
>
> WMF Scholarship Program: 110 people were offered and subsequently
> accepted a full or partial scholarship to attend. The awardees are listed
> by user names and the list is posted here:
>
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars
>
>
>
> Submissions: The program committee has just finished it's review and
> deliberations. Rejections and acceptance emails are going out this week
> and next. We expect to post the program by the end of this month.
>
>
>
> Registration and accommodation information is now up for everyone at:
>
>
>
> https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
>
> https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodation
>
>
>
> If you are a scholarship or other WMF funded attendee (staff, contractor,
> board, etc), please wait until you hear from the WMF with your registration
> and accommodation instructions.
>
>
>
> If you have any questions about the conference, please email
> wikimania-info(a)wikimedia.org
>
>
>
> Please spread the word!!!!
>
>
>
> Thanks, Ellie
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Ellie Young
>
> Events Manager
>
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> eyoung(a)wikimedia.org
>
>
>
>
>
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There is the proposal for moving Beta Wikiversity into the Incubator
[1]. According to the Closing project policy [2], the decision about
closing projects is something done by particular members of the
Language committee (while the Board could veto the decision).
However, this is an unusual request with the positive positive outcome
and I would like to hear wider community explicitly again.
My position is -- and unless I get good arguments against I would send
it to the Board -- that Beta Wikiversity should be closed, as it's a
generator of projects lead by lunatics. "Academic freedom" has not
been fruitful and any new request for Wikiversity should pass regular
Incubator rules, inside of the curator environment fully trusted by
the Language committee.
The decision would be to move relevant content to the Incubator and
let Incubator curators decide if any of the Beta Wikiversity admins
should have adminship transferred. Beta Wikiversity would be closed
and after some time (a year or two), it should be deleted.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Move_Beta_Wi…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closing_projects_policy
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And as a blog post on the Wikimedia blog here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/16/eileen-hershenov/
*Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Eileen Hershenov as General Counsel *
*Experienced general counsel brings nearly three decades of leadership in
media, intellectual property, civil liberties, and not-for-profit law*
(San Francisco, California) May 16, 2017 - The Wikimedia Foundation is
pleased to announce that Eileen Hershenov has joined the organization as
General Counsel. Eileen brings nearly 30 years of experience in media and
intellectual property law, civil rights and civil liberties law,
not-for-profit law and governance, and privacy and cyber-security.
Throughout her career, she has worked with mission-driven organizations to
promote equality, free expression, and openness.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports
Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. Together, Wikipedia and the
Wikimedia projects are visited by more than a billion unique devices every
month. The Wikimedia Foundation is driven by its mission to build a world
in which every single person can freely share in the sum of all human
knowledge.
As General Counsel, Eileen will lead an experienced team of attorneys and
public policy experts to defend the Wikimedia projects, communities, and
Foundation. She will be responsible for maintaining and developing the
legal infrastructure, policy, and relevant legal defenses for the Wikimedia
Foundation. She will also advise the Foundation on ethical and policy
positions around access to knowledge, freedom of speech, privacy,
copyright, and other issues relevant to the Wikimedia movement.
“Eileen is deeply committed to the values that make the Wikimedia movement
possible: free expression, access to knowledge, and a secure, open
internet,” said Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia
Foundation. “Her knowledge, passion, and leadership make her an excellent
addition to the Wikimedia Foundation and our global community.”
Previously, Eileen served as the founding general counsel for Consumers
Union, the not-for-profit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine and
ConsumerReports.org. In that role, in addition to defending against legal
attacks on the organization’s product reviews and investigative journalism,
she was part of the executive leadership team charged with rethinking the
organization’s approach to public policy and advocacy. Eileen supported the
work of tens of thousands of volunteers who advocated for healthcare reform
and net neutrality, among other issues. She also played a lead role in
developing and implementing Consumer Reports’ evolving business policies,
which are designed to ensure and protect the organization’s independence
from commercial influence and special interests.
Prior to joining Consumers Union, Eileen spent 11 years at the Open Society
Foundations, where she served as General Counsel to the global foundation
network. In this position, Eileen led the development of an in-house legal
counsel department, overseeing the legal work of the foundations in more
than 30 countries. Her work with the Open Society Foundations supported the
efforts of local advocates in the former Soviet Union, Central Europe, as
well as in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. During her time at the Open
Society Foundations, Eileen also served as the founding general counsel for
Central European University, the first U.S.-accredited liberal arts
university located in a former communist country.
“Wikimedia is a shining example of what’s possible when the values of the
free and open internet are preserved,” Eileen said. “I’ve spent much of my
career supporting many of the same principles that have allowed Wikipedia
to flourish. I’m thrilled to join a global movement of people who are
committed to these values.”
Eileen began her career in public interest as an organizer and advocate for
victims of toxic substances who were denied court access to seek
restitution. Her legal work for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
marked the start of her passion for supporting free expression, free
access, and freedom of association. She currently serves on the boards of a
number of public interest justice organizations, including the advisory
board of the Future of Privacy Forum, and the governing board of the
Appleseed Foundation.
Eileen received her BA in Economics from Yale College, and graduated from
Yale Law School. She currently lives in the state of New York with her
family, and will be relocating to the Bay Area this summer.
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Hello all,
We would like to share with you:
Dutch public broadcaster VPRO and the Institute for Sound and Vision are
cooperating with the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Nederland to make
unique footage about groundbreaking sciene available.
The Mind of the Universe <https://www.vpro.nl/mindenglish> is an
international tv series and open source digital platform
<http://www.themindoftheuniverse.org/> about the rapid evolution of our
knowledge. Through interviews with groundbreaking scientists, it provides a
glimpse of tomorrow’s world,
The interviews were produced in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by Dutch public
broadcaster VPRO for a tv series, VPRO decided from the start that all
materials (including footage not used for the documentary) would be made
available under an open license. The platform Mind of the Universe Open
Science TV <http://www.themindoftheuniverse.org/> provides access to all
this material. It also has transcripts of the interviews, which are
searchable by keyword. All materials can be downloaded and re-used, as
they were published under a CC-BY-SA license.
With the help of a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and working closely
with Wikimedia Nederland, the Institute for Sound and Vision will host a
series of events to promote use Mind of the Universe material throughout
the Wikimedia projects. They will also produce a white paper to share their
experiences and promote the concept of CC-BY-SA licensing among public
broadcasters worldwide. For the Wikimedia projects the Mind of the Universe
material is a valuable contribution: it is professionally made material,
featuring the leading scientists of today explaining the state of research
in their fields of work. The material also includes footage of research
facilities, including some which had never before allowed cameras inside.
Kind regards,
Wikimedia Nederland
Hello all!
Greetings from Odia Wikipedia community!
I am happy to share that the Odia Wikipedians have succesfully forged a
partnership with Bhubaneswar Development Authority to conduct the
Bhubaneswar Heritage edit-a-thon.
This edit-a-thon is aimed to improve Bhubaneswar's digital presence – and
establish Bhubaneswar as a QRpedia city. With this edit-a-thon, Bhubaneswar
will be the first city in India to install QRpedia codes in all of its
heritage monuments.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bhubaneswar_Heritage_Edit-a-thon(page under
construction)
Bhubaneswar, also known as the "Temple City of India" has nearly 300
ancient temples of the Kalinga style architecture that dates back to the
late 6th century. This edit-a-thon will happen in two phases, In the first
phase, the BDA will release images and information of all state and
ASI-protected monuments under CC license to improve Wikipedia articles. The
second phase will be for unprotected monuments.
This edit-a-thon will take place globally in the month of August or
September. The BDA will provide souvenirs from Odisha to the Top 3
International and National (Indian) contributors. I request interested
Wikimedians to please sign up for this edit-a-thon and help Odia
Wikipedians to make this project a success. I will update other details on
the User Talk page of interested volunteers.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bhubaneswar_Heritage_Edit-a-thon/Participan…
Thanks and Regards
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