[Foundation-l] Wikimedia France Wikimania Scholarships (was Re: Money, politics and corruption)

[Christophe Henner]

On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noein <pronoein at 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
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>> 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.
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> 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