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

[Oliver Keyes]

The attendance of French Wikipedians was certainly high; I travelled through
to Gdansk with five or six (the "Why France/Britain sucks" conversations"
were amusing). I think it's an excellent idea for individual chapters to
distribute scholarships, but yes, there is a time element involved. I guess
it isn't even necessarily needed for the Chapter scholarships to be issued
afterwards; merely at a different time. Maybe before would work? That way
you'd avoid the problem of not distributing all of it.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Christophe Henner <
christophe.henner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
>
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