Hi Praveen, I've been a steward, as well as the chair of the FDC for three years, so you may assume I've been somewhat active in Wikimedia movement. I did not receive a global scholarship neither (although I did eventually go, as I got elected to the Board of Trustees).
I think it is clearly an assumption of bad faith to say that there is a bias in scholarship committee. The criteria are explicit, and obviously with limited resources a large number of excellent candidates, even with accepted presentations, will not make it. I would suggest you focus on Wikimedia activity, prepare a great presentation for the next year as well as a compelling application, and try again. Best, DJ "pundit" 31 lip 2015 10:07 "praveenp" <[email protected]> napisał(a): > Hi, > > Please don't derail the actual topic of the thread. I really didnt assume > such an interpretation from quoting his words. Whenever I asked about the > issue to anybody, I generally got such a reply, which I want to avoid here. > > If it is need to start a new thread, I will do that. :-) > > But please tell me why some people regularly get scholarships atleast > since 2008, active (in Wikimedia projects / outreach programms) users never > get a chance to share their experience and problems at Wikimania. > > Regards, > Praveen. P > > > On Friday 31 July 2015 12:40 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote: > > Praveen, > > Whether there was anything personal or confidential in Gerard's private > emails to you is for him to say not for you to decide. > > Regards > > Jonathan > > > On 31 Jul 2015, at 05:59, praveenp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Osmar Valdebenito, > No offense was intended :-(. For prominent communities that may be true, > but could you check list of users who got scholarship from Malayalam > community. > > > Amir Ladsgroup, > > 1) As you can see there is nothing confidential or personal in Gerards > reply. He just gave a summary of "known" practices. > 2) Users are not asking for trophies. They also want to participate > Wikimania and share and get the experience. > 3) Wikimedia projects are community processes. I simply don't understand > how granting scholarship to same persons again and again for five or six > years help that process. I also dont understand that communication and > sharing of multiple viewpoints, ideas and practices is possible in the > above scenario. > 4) Yes; If clicking tick marks in translatewiki on some 500 string in 5 > minutes before applying for scholarship (as reviewing the translation) is a > prominent contribution. > > In the beginning every body treated equal, we have multiple participants > (with understandable reasons) for Wikimania. It started to shrink later and > now people plainly believe granting scholarship is an act of favoritism. I > also want to prove I am wrong. > > Regards, > Praveen. P > User:Praveenp > > PS: Mail striped because mailman held my previous reply claiming " Message > body is too big:" > > On Friday 31 July 2015 05:03 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > > There are several issues I want to comment: > 1-First of all. Do you have permission from Gerard to publish your > conversation? Maybe there is something confidential in it, Did you care to > check? > 2- Scholarship is not award or trophy, bear that in mind. > 3- People are expected to come here and learn, communicate, etc. that's > why a same person gets scholarship, > 4- No one's wife got scholarship because of being wife of someone. They > probably are prominent contributors too. > 5- Check my first question and answer that. (Emphasizing) > > Best > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:05 AM Osmar Valdebenito < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry, but when I read "No regular Wikimedian get any scholarship", I >> stopped reading. >> It is not only a lie, but also very unfair to all the extremely great >> Wikimedians that attended and made great contributions in Wikimania, and >> also the volunteers that have helped now and in the past reviewing and >> evaluated thousand of applications in the Scholarship Committee. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing > [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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