Secret scholarships. How bizarre, this is the opposite of transparency
and would be an especially difficult thing to justify if it later came
out that relatives, friends, people with no previous connection to
Wikimedia projects were getting large sums of money with no public
declarations.

Fae

On 31 March 2014 12:38, Michael Peel <michael.peel@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Erm, no, it is standard (good) practice!
>
> Mike
>
> On 31 Mar 2014, at 12:28, Jon Davies <jon.davies@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
> It is not standard practice for a list of attendees to Wikimedia conferences
> to be published. It is up to the individuals in question whether they want
> it be known publicly that they are attending or have attended a particular
> Wikimedia conference. That any particular individual attendance are funded
> by Wikimedia UK or for that matter the Wikimedia Foundation rather than
> privately does not affect that.
>
> Like other Wikimedia conferences, there is an unofficial list on the
> conference pages where participates are able to publicly indicate their
> planned attendance. In addition, all scholarship recipients agrees to
> produce a public report afterwards summarising the key things they have
> taken from the event.
>
>
> On 27 March 2014 14:58, Fæ <faewik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 27 March 2014 14:50, Katie Chan <katie.chan@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>> > There were two valid applications, which we are both funding.
>>
>> Where is the list going to be published?
>>
>> Fae
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