Since you raise chapter scholarships, it would be nice to see some of the other big chapters (and to some extent the WMF) spending more on scholarships for rank-and-file Wikimedians rather than staff and board members. That might help with the perception that Wikimania is the same old faces year in, year out.
Harry Mitchell http://enwp.org/User:HJ +44 (0) 7507 536 971 Skype: harry_j_mitchell On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Chris Keating <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's imagine a totally fair, but not very good process: Scholarships > get allocated completely at random. Some people would keep getting > allocated scholarships, entirely randomly. > > Therefore, the observation that some people get scholarships several > years in a row is not strong evidence that the selection process is > somehow biased towards a select few... > > (I mean, it is biased, towards people mainly active in smaller > language projects and from the Global South - that's quite deliberate > - and then it's biased towards Germans, because WMDE offers dozens of > scholarships for Germans outside of the WMF scheme. But those are > separate issues....) > > Chris > > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Vira Motorko <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, I'd like to add a few words. > > Applicants tend to forget that same people are likely to be selected if > same > > people are applying. > > I do not think that it is a first job of scholarship committee to check > that > > every year there are new people. If certain community has a problem that > > Wikimedians go to Wikimania but fail to report back to the community and > do > > not bring back new knowledge, then it should be discussed within the > > community. I do believe that local community can find a way to encourage > or > > discourage people to apply for a scholarship. > > If there is trust in the community, discussions within it will bring > ease. > > For example, different applicants can gather and compare their > applications, > > and decide for themselves why scholarship committee liked this one better > > than that one. And write better application next time. Talk to each > other, > > people. > > > > Best regards, > > user:Ата, > > applied but did not receive scholarship in 2012, 2013, and 2014; received > > scholarship in 2015 and 2016; haven't apply since; gave advice to several > > other people with their applications > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimania-l mailing list > > [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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