On 29.05.2018 20:33, praveenp wrote:

I haven't seen any attempt to share the knowledge and wisdom acquired from Wikimania to community through mailing list or wiki. Users including me generally feel that community is being mocked on.

Hi to all, without being too original here, and following praveenp comments - would be good to encourage recipients of WMF scholarship to organize some type of Wikimania follow-up activities back in their groups or chapters.

I do believe that most of them are doing it anyway without any requirements from WMF, but if majority would  do it - we could have something as a ”permanent Wikimania” unfolding globally for a couple of months after the official Wikimania.

regards, /gheorghe

Hi,

As I have said last year, this is not a complaint that I didn't get selected. This is not personal. This is about same persons receiving Wikimania scholarship year after year repeatedly. I am just using familiar user names from a familiar community, who got many repeated scholarships.

Even after I argued that none of these 'permanent scholarship receivers' sharing anything to community, I haven't seen any attempt to share the knowledge and wisdom acquired from Wikimania to community through mailing list or wiki. Users including me generally feel that community is being mocked on.

I tried to keep myself away from local discussion about this, but injustice is so clear. And nobody is ready to discuss it openly, most probably because of the 'incompetency shaming' in almost all replies.

~user:Praveenp

On Tuesday 29 May 2018 11:19 PM, Lodewijk wrote: Given the context of the previous email you sent, I am assuming this is more a complaint that you didn't get selected than that the other two got selected.

Similarly to the previous time you tried to have this discussion - I feel uncomfortable to make this about individuals.

Is there a way to give rejected applicants more feedback on which factors play a main role, so that they can learn from it, especially if there is something they could improve in their application. I would add two sidenotes here though: it should only be provided on request (no need to rub people's noses into something unnecessarily) and it seems only viable at a level that can be easily extracted from the process (high level).

Perhaps someone who knows the scholarship committee's work intimately could comment.

Best, Lodewijk

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:21 AM, praveenp <me.praveen@gmail.com mailto:me.praveen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Congratulation to all the selection committee who break the tradition[1] of selecting  one of the Malayalam communities two permanent Wikimania attendees, by selecting both of them.

Congratulation to User:Netha Hussain & User:viswaprabha also.

[1] "Granting Scholarship to same persons every year" thread, https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2017-May/008026.html https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2017-May/008026.html

~User:Praveenp

On Tuesday 15 May 2018 11:19 PM, Ellie Young wrote:

All,

Here's an update on various activities pertaining to the upcomingWikimania '18  which is being held July 18-22 in Cape Town, South Africa.

WMF Scholarship Program:  135 people were offered and subsequently accepteda full or partial scholarship to attend.  The awardees are listed by usernames and the list is posted here:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholarshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholarsSubmissions:  The program committee has just finished its review anddeliberations.  Rejections and acceptance emails  have gone out in the past week.

95% of the accepted submissions are listed at:

https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program

Plenaries and other sessions will be listed soon and a scheduled program  in June.

Registration and accommodation information is now up for everyone at:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registrationhttps://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registrationhttps://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodationhttps://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/AccommodationIf you are a scholarship or other WMF funded attendee (staff, contractor,board, etc), please wait until you hear from the WMF with your registrationand accommodation instructions.If you have any questions about the conference, please emailwikimania-info at wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-lPlease spread the word!!!!On behalf of the Wikimania '18 Organizing Team

Ellie YoungEvents Manager, Wikimedia Foundationhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l​