On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noein pronoein@gmail.com wrote:
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On 21/07/2010 01:57, Florence Devouard wrote:
This decision was approved on the 24th of may and was advertised in various (french speaking) venues. The scholarship only proposed two different types of packages: 250 euros or 500 euros. There was no requirement of nationality or location, though we would probably have focused on French participants. A commission was receiving the scholarship requests and approving them. Scholars had two main obligations :
- actually being at the conference :)
- report after the conference
In spite of sufficient time, not all scholarships were distributed, which is quite unfortunate. However, the number of French participants had never been as high in a Wikimania.
Out of curiosity, would contacting the french-speaking registered users of en. and fr. wikipedia have been a good advertisement strategy?
We advertised it on the french Wikipedia of course, and on every french wikimedia project iirc. As long as on our blog and through social media.
Christophe