Hi Lodewijk,
You might be right but I don't see where it was published that scholarships are
actually distributed through chapters. Even if that's the case, did Turkey, Central
America, South America, Mexico, and the Middle East have multiple chapters? Why did
Wikimedia ZA got one full and one partial scholarships? In what ratio were the scholarship
shared? What is the distribution formulae? Sincerely, the sharing formulae remain a
mystery to me.
Best,
Isaac
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Hi Isaac,
running such statistics is always a bit tricky. You make lots of
assumptions. One being that the number of serious applications is
distributed in a certain way. As I understand it, the quality of the
application also plays a role, which can definitely impact distribution
between countries. Fact is, that there is right now simply not enough
information to draw conclusions.
Also please note that many many scholarships are actually distributed
through chapters - which gives even an odder distribution across countries,
letting applicants in some countries benefit over the fact that there is an
active office in their country that can run a budget of sufficient size.
Some chapters try to compensate for that by also allowing applicants from a
selection of other countries (like Poland does). So for a real analysis,
one should include all these too.
Lodewijk
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:43 PM, <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My understanding of Wikimania Scholarship program is that Full
scholarships are subject to quotas, while there is usually no geographical
or linguistic limit to partial scholarships.
However, final approval for Full Scholarships is based on the applicant's
home country, each applicant will be categorized as either a Global North
or Global South applicant, with the total number of scholarships
distributed between the Global North and Global South being set at 25% and
75% respectively.
The Global South includes Asia (with the exception of Japan, Hong Kong,
Macau, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan), Turkey, Central America, South
America, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East (with the exception of
Israel). If 124 scholarship was awarded, and 75% is expected to be awarded
for global south, it means, 93 Wikimedians are expected to get the
scholarship from these region. Since global south consists of Turkey,
Central America, South America, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East, then
no fewer than 15 Wikimedians are expected to get scholarship from Africa.
Unless I'm missing something. If only 4 Wikimedians got scholarship from
Africa, where are the 89 scholarships?
Warmest regards,
Olatunde Isaac.
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