[Wikimania-l] Fwd: Wikimania Scholarship

Hi, My point is not about someone going to Wikimanias again and again, it is about *Wikimania scholarships are granted to same persons again and again*. According to your argument persons with better language skill would be granted scholarship, and there is nothing wrong with it. IMO that is against Wikimedia philosophy and ethics. A scholarship committee is for assessing applicants through various ways. If they solely depend the "selling" point given by the applicant, there shouldn't be this scholarship committee :-). Consider this private post by me (I've added you), which is about a server error in application[1]: https://plus.google.com/+praveenp/posts/XtB1b9fmqcZ This roughly translates as, "I tried to apply Wikimania Scholarship, even server told me - F*** you". It was 19 January, and I was pretty sure that I wouldn't get any scholarship. I saw couple of other similar posts sharing same feeling. We are not Nostradamus :-) but we just know. And also it did happen just as we expected. I doubted that whether this should be shared or not (As you've clarified, this can easily be marked as inability to achieve scholarship). But on second thought, if this happened on ml.wikipedia, this would happened on every other projects. Regards, Praveen. P User:Praveenp [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87182 On Sunday 03 May 2015 02:02 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, I have been to many Wikimanias myself. At every one of them I gave a presentation and I made it a point to have an idea of what it is that I achieved while being there. Your point is that the same people have been there, that is in and of itself not so relevant. It is what they achieved, it is how they networked. When people are known to be good at that, you will find that they often return to Wikimania. This year I do not have the bandwidth to go to Wikimania so I did not apply, I did not prepare a presentation even though it is trivially easy for me to do so. When you want to go to Wikimania, make sure that you are clear why you want to go, what you intend to achieve and make that obvious. That is why you may be selected for a grant. There is no justification in all the good work that you do when you cannot or do not express how going to Wikimania makes a difference. You have to sell this idea. There is no point in comparing yourself with others. They hope to achieve what they hope to achieve.. Thanks, GerardM On 3 May 2015 at 09:57, praveenp <me.praveen(a)gmail.com> wrote: