Rehman wasn't saying it's impossible, or even hard, to calculate. He was pointing out a potential psychological benefit that would accrue to some participants (and I can attest they exist) who may *not* have given much thought to the magnitude of the investment in awarding them a scholarship. As Lodewijk pointed out, however, it can only have an opposite, chilling effect.
A. On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 4:25 PM Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting thoughts. I received a WMF Wikimania scholarship in 2017. > WMF's travel agent didn't redact the prices when they sent me the flight > tickets and accommodation that they gave me. So I could calculate the exact > price tag of my scholarship (flight price + accommodation price + > registration price). > > Is this a useful quantity to know? Yes - it does give some meat to one's > gratitude, and it makes for a good argument for those of us academics who > are eligible for multiple sources of funding ("hey, last time WMF sponsored > me CA$1400 to go to Wikimania, so I'm a worthy applicant of this > university's €500 travel award this year" etc). But I wouldn't place a > burden on WMF to calculate this figure in cases where the amount isn't > obvious, and we certainly shouldn't ask anyone to calculate the value of > the award until the travel and accommodation have been purchased. > > --Deryck > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, 10:11 Rehman Abubakr, <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I was a former Wikimania scholarship recipient. To put it briefly, the >> Wikimania experience was something that I deeply value and will forever >> cherish. Somewhat sadly though, it is only after quite some years after >> Wikimania that I actually realised the value of the scholarship award (in >> monetary terms), that too with loose estimates done by myself purely out of >> curiosity. >> >> Would it make sense to include the approximate total monetary value of >> the scholarship award (airfare, lodging, insurance, logistics, etc) within >> the scholarship award emails to the recipients? I feel this would give much >> deserving weight in the award itself, as I'm sure many of us isn't aware of >> the actual amount of resources that is put in a given person's award. >> >> >> Yours truly, >> >> >> *Rehman Abubakr (Roy) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>* >> >> OTRS agent, Admin (English Wikipedia, Commons), Contributor (Wikidata, >> Meta) >> User:Rehman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman> *|* Talkpage >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rehman> *|* >> [email protected] *|* UG-LK >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Sri_Lanka/English> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org
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