Yes it was a shame; I was hoping to go but I not allowed, sadly, to travel to Israel. Another editor I know also had similar difficulties.
I wonder how much this affected numbers going?
Tom
On 23 July 2011 21:23, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't look like there is much of a UK contingent going to Wikimania - we didn't even make the top 5 countries list. There's also no mention of WMUK sponsoring anyone despite there being £10k in the budget for Wikimania sponsorship. Could someone on the board let us know what that money is being spent on?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Harel Cain harel.cain@gmail.com Date: 23 July 2011 20:45 Subject: [Wikimania-l] Some statistics about Wikimania 2011 To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Jessie Wild jwild@wikimedia.org
Hi al,
Some statistics about Wikimania 2011:
- We expect upwards of 470 confirmed attendees. The exact number is
difficult to tell, but all those we consider confirmed are paid for and have never cancelled.
- Our confirmed attendees hail from 56 different countries. The
highest participation is from Israel (26%), United States (16%), Germany (9.6%), Netherlands (4.7%) and India (4.3%).
- 22% percent of participants are female. That's a wonderful number,
considering the research finding that only about 13% of editors are women.
- About 1150 people submitted a scholarship application, 450 made it
to the second round of filtering. About 80 full scholarships and about 60 partial scholarships were awarded by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikimedia Deutschland gave out 16 scholarships, WM Italia 8, WM France about 7 (?), WM Austria about 5, WM Russia 3, WMCH 2. The average age of scholarship applicant was about 31, the median age about 27.
- About 11% of participants are vegetarian or vegan.
See you all soon in Haifa!
Harel Cain Wikimania 2011 local team
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