[Wikimania-l] Re: Excursion to Auschwitz?

[DerHexer]

 And others still feel depressed each time they are reminded of their visit to 
that very place where their family members were doomed to die. And might get 
confused by this thread as they connect “excursion” more with a sightseeing 
trip than a way through hell what it had been back in these days but would 
likely be also for today's visitors. Can we please very sensitive with this 
topic? Thank you!
Best,DerHexer
Am Montag, 18. Dezember 2023, 10:09:59 MEZ hat Mārtiņš Bruņenieks 
 Folgendes geschrieben:  
 
 Hello,
For these planning to go — it can be an emotional experience, plan a whole day 
for it. It takes a while to visit (there are 2 locations) and you might have a 
depressing feeling for the rest of the day until you regain faith in humanity. 
This is why others recommend it as an individual experience.

 Mārtiņš

pirmd., 2023. g. 18. dec., plkst. 10:55 — lietotājs Federico Leva (Nemo) 
() rakstīja:

Il 14/12/23 21:21, Harry Mitchell ha scritto:
> If anyone is interested in going with a group of Wikimedians, please feel
> free to get in touch with me. If there are a few of us we could coordinate
> plans.

Thanks for checking! I'm interested in joining, especially if it's on 
August 6 or 11 (to minimise chances of conflicts with other last-minute 
side events). The page 
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Related_events> doesn't exist 
yet, it would be good to create it as soon as some tentative date is chosen.

Federico
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Application for scholarship

[DerHexer]

 Thanks for the note, I've added that information to your application.
Best,Martin
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Von: M.Thaha Ibrahim Buhari 
Date: Fr., 19. Apr. 2019 um 04:56 Uhr
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Application for scholarship
To: 


I, Thaha Ibrahim Buhari, applied for scholarship for the conclave at Stockholm, 
Sweden during August 2019,  from Chennai, India. I had mentioned my nearest 
airport as Chennai. Now I am leaving for USA on an urgent matter which needs my 
presence till October 2019.
Hence I request you to kindly change my nearest airport as George Bush 
International Airport, Houston, Texas, USA, if my application is considered.
with best regards,
M Thaha Ibrahim Buhari
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Re: [Wikimania-l] scholarships app

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 Agreed, since I serve in the scholarship committee one or the other way from 
2012 on, such app has never been used. I think I haven't even heard of this 
before.
Best,Martin
Am Freitag, 22. März 2019, 16:29:53 MEZ hat Bryan Davis 
 Folgendes geschrieben:  
 
 On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 1:41 AM Amir E. Aharoni
 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a vague recollection of a Wikimania Scholarship mobile pp.
>
> Is it still used in any way?

Must be a very old vague memory. There has been no such thing since
the Foundation took over hosting https://scholarships.wikimedia.org in
late 2013 for Wikimania London.

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[Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2019 scholarship applications open

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Hi all,
We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2019 which 
is being held in Stockholm, Sweden on August 14–18, 2019 are now being 
accepted. Applications are open until Friday, 15 March 2019 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full 
scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared 
accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia 
Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and 
shared accommodation.

Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection 
criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, 
who will determine which applications are successful.

To learn more about Wikimania 2019 scholarships, please visit: 
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: 
https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply
It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the 
Scholarships page and the associated FAQ ( 
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before submitting an 
application.
If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at 
wikimedia.org or leave a message at: 
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships
Please help us spread the word and translate pages!

Best regards,

Arild Vågen and Martin Rulsch
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Closing wikimania2018wiki

[DerHexer]

True and known but not a reason against my wish, no? ;-)
Best,Martin


  Von: Federico Leva (Nemo) 
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subscription)  
 Gesendet: 15:15 Donnerstag, 16.August 2018
 Betreff: Re: [Wikimania-l] Closing wikimania2018wiki
   
DerHexer, 16/08/2018 13:16:
> People need to add their presentations to the pages, videos needs to be 
> edited and linked there,, lessons learned want to be shared, etc. It 
> might be a good push now but get everything in place but in my humble 
> opinion, two months after the conference is way too early, sorry.

Right. A couple pages worth updating:
* https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees (usually there are 
more names; it helps connect and follow up)
* https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Video#Resources (Commons has 
than 50 videos, mostly unused)

Federico

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Closing wikimania2018wiki

[DerHexer]

Hi Marco,
Isn't this a bit early? The conference happened less than a month ago, usually 
the wiki was closed maybe a year after the event. People need to add their 
presentations to the pages, videos needs to be edited and linked there,, 
lessons learned want to be shared, etc. It might be a good push now but get 
everything in place but in my humble opinion, two months after the conference 
is way too early, sorry.

Best,Martin/DerHexer

  Von: MA 
 An: wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org 
 Gesendet: 12:12 Donnerstag, 16.August 2018
 Betreff: [Wikimania-l] Closing wikimania2018wiki
   
Hello,

As it happens with all wikimania wikis upon completion of the event,
the wikimania2018wiki is in the process of being closed. Closing means
that the wiki and its contents will continue to be online and readable
by all, but account creation and editting will be restricted.

I plan to move forward and close the wiki in *one month* after the
sending of this email (this is September 16, 2018 aprox.). If you have
content that needs to be uploaded to the wiki, please do so.

I've setup a ticket at <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201188> so
we can track its progress.

Of course, if you need more time I have no issues to wait. However the
wiki will eventually be closed as all other wikimania wikis.

Best regards, M.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 146, Issue 1

[DerHexer]

That's true: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Wikimania_scholars/Reviewer%27s_guide#Score_adjustment_for_previous_scholars
 (that this is not the perfect system is well known to everyone in the 
committee which, as Mardetanha said, changes every year—it's still very hard to 
implement a process which does not favor these who are used to write good 
applications if we don't draw lots).

We had to start the scholarship processes at some point due to visa 
regulations, unfortunately before the program team could finish their process. 
For that reason, the scholarship committee proposed to save some money for 
people who could not hold their presentations without a scholarship. But in the 
end, it's the WMF who thankfully manages all the outcomes and the jury only 
evalutes the applications at some point.

Best,Martin/DerHexer

  Von: Sjoerd de Bruin 
 An: Wikimania general list (open subscription) 
 
 Gesendet: 17:15 Freitag, 1.Juni 2018
 Betreff: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 146, Issue 1
   
I think that is already included in scholarship applications, if I remember 
correctly.
Greetings,
Sjoerd de Bruin

Op 1 jun. 2018, om 17:06 heeft Julie Workman  het 
volgende geschreven:
Is there at present any metric by which previous scholarship attendees are 
judged on their dissemination of Wikimania experiences after the conference? 
The complaint being brought up is not only about awardees getting repeat 
scholarships, but failing to enrich their communities afterwards with what they 
learned / what it was like / who they met / what they will do now. With a 
limited number of scholarships available, it is true that the attendees are 
expected to share their good fortune with those who couldn't attend.
If nothing like that is in place, could it not be added? For example, a field 
on the application: "were you awarded a scholarship last year (and attended)?" 
"If yes, please describe (and provide links where possible) to the activities 
and discussions you organised with your community regarding your experience at 
Wikimania". If a sufficiently good and detailed response is not provided, the 
application can receive a lower score (or possibly be discarded...? I'm not au 
fait with the process).
Julia W
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 18:31:08 -0700
From: Pine W 
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Harry, I recall hearing that there was a push a year or two back to alter
the proportion of presentations at Wikimania so that there were fewer WMF
presentations and more community presentations. I don't know if that was a
one time event or if that's ongoing. I have never been to Wikimania, and
have no plans to go in the foreseeable future, but I watch what happens
with Wikimania partly because it's an expensive operation in terms of
financial cost and in terms of volunteer time. Also, the scholarship system
is a perennial point of friction.

Dariusz or Ellie, are there any thoughts at WMF about doing a full review
of the scholarship system and the value of Wikimania to the community? With
WMF spending so much money on Wikimania year after year, and volunteers
spending so much time on Wikimania year after year, I think that it would
make sense to do this type of review, which might be possible to
synchronize with WMF's strategy process. I am very interested in ensuring
that there are SMART goals being achieved with all of the money and time
that goes into Wikimania. At the same time, I think that the scholarship
system could be reviewed to consider the strategic priorities for
scholarships and how to align those priorities to SMART goals. I don't
envision reducing funding for Wikimania and scholarships, but I think that
some re-thinking and evaluation would be good to align funding with the WMF
strategic plan and with SMART goals.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/User:Pine )

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Harry Mitchell  wrote:

> 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

Re: [Wikimania-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarships

[DerHexer]

Hi all,
It's only few hours left before the application deadline will be reached on 
Monday, 22 January 23:59 UTC. We are making this final call earlier than before 
because we want to give you enough time to good applications and don't want you 
to run into last-minute issues like timeouts, downtimes, etc. Good luck!
Best,Martin

  Von: DerHexer <derhe...@wikipedia.de>
 An: Wikimania general list (open subscription) 
<wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org>; Wikimedia Mailing List 
<wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> 
 Gesendet: 20:07 Mittwoch, 20.Dezember 2017
 Betreff: Call for Wikimania Scholarships
   
Hi all,

We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2018 which 
is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being 
accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full 
scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared 
accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia 
Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and 
shared accommodation.

Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection 
criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, 
who will determine which applications are successful.

To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit: 
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form 
on:https://scholarships.wikim edia.org/apply

It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the 
Scholarships page and the associated FAQ ( 
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before submitting 
an application.

If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships@wikime 
dia.org or leave a message at: 
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships.

Please help us spread the word and translate pages!

Best regards,

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarships

[DerHexer]

The link to https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships pointed to 
the 2017 page. Of course, it should direct you to the 2018 one as linked now 
here.
Best,Martin

  Von: DerHexer <derhe...@wikipedia.de>
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 Betreff: [Wikimania-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarships
   
Hi all,

We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2018 which 
is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being 
accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full 
scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared 
accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia 
Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and 
shared accommodation.

Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection 
criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, 
who will determine which applications are successful.

To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit: 
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form 
on:https://scholarships.wikim edia.org/apply

It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the 
Scholarships page and the associated FAQ ( 
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before submitting 
an application.

If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships@wikime 
dia.org or leave a message at: 
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships.

Please help us spread the word and translate pages!

Best regards,

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[Wikimania-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarships

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Hi all,

We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2018 which 
is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being 
accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full 
scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared 
accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia 
Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and 
shared accommodation.

Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection 
criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, 
who will determine which applications are successful.

To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit: 
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form 
on:https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply

It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the 
Scholarships page and the associated FAQ ( 
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before submitting 
an application.

If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarsh...@wikimedia.org 
or leave a message at: 
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships.

Please help us spread the word and translate pages!

Best regards,

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Re: [Wikimania-l] Call for Scholarship Committee, Help wanted for new applicants and African community

[DerHexer]

Some links are broken but should forward now to the right places. However, 
please send us mails to wikimania-scholarsh...@wikimedia.org and not to 
whatever is linked there. Sorry about that.
Please help us spread the word, thank you!
Best,Martin

  Von: Martin Rulsch 
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applicants and African community
   
Dear Wikimaniacs,

we are now calling for the Scholarship Committee.

The Scholarship Committee is an important and diverse group of volunteers who 
help to run the scholarship program. We encourage people from all Wikimedia 
wikis to apply for this position so that the committee can handle applications 
in many different languages.

The main duties of the committee members prior to Wikimania 2018 are:
* Participation in periodic online meetings with scholarships program manager 
and other committee members.
* Review and edit communications material (e.g. application questions).
* Assistance in determination of scholarship applicant requirements.
* Assurance of due consideration and speedy response time to Wikimania 
scholarship applications in multiple languages.

For further information please visit 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Handbook#Scholarships and 
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships.

We are looking for Wikimedians from all over the world, who are:
* fluent in written English and have good communication skills, or can name 
local community member(s) who help them with English translations.
* discreet and able to handle confidential applicant information, and 
objectively assess candidates.
* willing to review scholarship applications remotely in early 2018, estimated 
time is 30 hours. A review guide can be found on 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars/Reviewer%27s_guide.
* having either or both:
** previously attended Wikimania,
** strong knowledge of the cross-project Wikimedia community.

Scholarship Committee members may not apply for a scholarship themselves but 
there is a small budget for supporting committee members to attend Wikimania. 
Please tell us if you need financial support in case you’ll be selected.

If you're interested in serving on the Scholarship Committee, please send us an 
email to  wikimania-scholarsh...@wikimedia.org. If you have any questions, 
please don't hesitate to contact us there as well.

Deadline to apply is Sunday, December 10, 2017. The organizers will contact all 
candidates and publish the list of scholarship committee members right 
afterwards.

Proposed timeline
* Nov 30–Dec 10: Call for Scholarship Committee
* mid-December: Selection of the Scholarship Committee and start of the 
submission time
* 5–26 February (estimated time frame): main review time

Before the start of the submission time, we are adapting the application 
process to take recent activities more into account than the years before, as 
proposed on wikimania-l. On the one hand we want to encourage returning 
Wikimania participants to share their knowledge, on the other newcomers to 
Wikimania to apply for a scholarship at all. Former scholarship recipients can 
help us with the latter by sharing their successful applications on MetaWiki: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars#2017_WMF_Wikimania_Scholarships.
 In case you don’t have your text at hand, you can send us a confirmation mail 
to wikimania-scholarsh...@wikimedia.org where you allow us to publish it for 
you.

Above all, we want to support African community members with applying for 
scholarships. To achieve that, we are especially looking for volunteers who 
want help us with encouraging people, assisting with the application form, 
finding the right level of presenting one’s activities, etc. Please reach out 
to us if you'd like to help.

Many thanks,
David Richfield and Martin Rulsch
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Fwd: URGENT: Wikimania Pre-Conference Selection

[DerHexer]

Thanks to all of you for your answers. :-) For a better planning, this is very 
reasonable but it is still different from former Wikimanias—as a Wikimedia 
Hackathons attendee of the last years I know that for good reasons things are 
different there, too. Hence, thank you very much again for the clarifications.
I will probably register for WikiConference North America then but will leave 
the door open to attending other sessions according to my needs and socializing 
with whomever whenever as long as we both agree to this. I, for myself, find 
this one of the more useful things at Wikimanias as I feel that I can work at 
home much more effectively on my own while conferences like Wikimanias allow me 
to learn from others and share my experiences. Of course, there are occasions 
when people got new ideas and want to immediately work on this and get it done 
(same with me at the last Hackathon in Vienna). But, imho, it should be then 
the decision of the individual if and when they socialize (and thereby even get 
more new ideas) and not by the concept of the event. But maybe I just 
misunderstood this part, if so, I'm sorry for that.
Best,Martin (with my volunteer hat on)

  Von: Rachel Farrand 
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 Gesendet: 22:20 Donnerstag, 20.Juli 2017
 Betreff: Re: [Wikimania-l] Fwd: URGENT: Wikimania Pre-Conference Selection
   
Hello!

Regarding the hackathon - it is very helpful for the organizers to have a list 
of attendees and a count of attendees. We asked a few hackathon specific 
questions during registration and the number of people answering these 
questions in different ways will change the planning of the event. This is 
especially important for food catering and seating capacity (i.e. if 50 
unexpected people show up, then we might not have enough food or chairs for the 
registered people).  The other problem we try to avoid, is people dropping in 
during the day just to socialize, as this can be a major distraction to the 
registered participants who are trying to focus on tasks.

We generally send a series of 2-3 emails[1] to participants in advance of the 
hackathon suggesting ways to get involved, asking people to sign up for things, 
and generally explaining what to expect/what will be different. If we don't 
have people specifically registered for the hackathon we won’t be be able to 
plan on our end, and those people will not receive the information that the 
other registered hackathon participants get. All information is all eventually 
posted on the wiki, but we have found that participants pay more attention to 
emails highlighting the important points.
Also, we have had hackathon specific registration for the Wikimania Hackathon 
in 2015, 2016 and now again in 2017.
Rachel
[1] for example: https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Email1 

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Andrew Lih  wrote:

Hi Martin: every Wikimania is similar but different from previous years, so 
your concerns are understandable.
I’m responding with a caveat - Phoebe Ayers and Ellie Young can provide better 
details but I wanted to get back to you as soon as you can. I’ve been working 
with the Wikimania team on the pre conference days for Wikiconference North 
America.
1. Short answer - Yes, you can switch tracks even though we’d like for you to 
choose one upon registration. This helps us figure out room sizes and logistics 
for planning.
2. Speaking for Wikiconference North America (WCNA) - We welcome anyone to the 
join us during pre conference days, some of the content is “North America” 
specific, but most of it is not.
- Wednesday is a Culture Crawl, where we will explore the city, visit various 
GLAM institutions and wind up at the BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales 
du Québec) where they are hosting an afternoon of uploading/editing/scanning. 
Details to come. There is no registration cost for this day.
- Thursday is a day at the Sheraton along with all the other groups. We plan to 
have three tracks throughout the day: planned tutorials, 
panels/discussions/lightning talks and unconference sessions determined by 
participants. There is normal registration cost for this day.
-Andrew



-Andrew Lih
Associate professor of journalism, American UniversityUS National Archives 
Citizen Archivist of the Year (2016)Knight Foundation grant recipient - 
Wikipedia Space (2015)Wikimedia DC - Outreach and GLAM
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Martin Rulsch  
wrote:

Hi!
Honestly, I am a bit confused by the organization of the pre-conference this 
year. Recent Wikimanias allowed users to choose on site what to attend, be it 
Hackathon sessions, WMCON 

Re: [Wikimania-l] Successful scholarship applications

[DerHexer]

Sounds good to me. Any other thoughts or recommendations?
Best,Martin


  Von: Deryck Chan <deryckc...@gmail.com>
 An: DerHexer <derhe...@wikipedia.de>; Wikimania general list (open 
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Martin,
That sounds like a good idea. Maybe make it a 3-column wikitable {|-
! Username ! Link to application details (self-disclosed, optional) ! Link to 
report (compulsory after Wikimania)|}
?Deryck

On 24 May 2017 at 11:36, DerHexer <derhe...@wikipedia.de> wrote:

Thank you very much Deryck,
I'd suggest to add a section to https://meta.wikimedia.org/ 
wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_ scholars for example, where all such applications 
could be linked so that they won't get lost in the wikimaniawiki pages. It 
could also be helpful for future reviewers to see what applications were 
successful the years before, hence could be linked on 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_ 
scholars/Reviewer%27s_guide as well. What do you think?

Best,Martin


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It's good that we're discussing the hurdle for someone to get their first 
scholarship to participate in Wikimania. In addition to the suggestions in the 
other thread, I'd like to lead an initiative to help future applicants who want 
their first-ever Wikimania scholarship.
As a successful Wikimania 2017 scholarship applicant, I'm publishing on-wiki 
all my answers to the scholarship application form, except personal 
information:https://wikimania2017. wikimedia.org/wiki/User: 
Deryck_Chan/Scholarship_ application
I encourage all other successful scholarship applicants to do the same. If you 
kept a draft of your application form, redact any personally identifiable 
information and publish it on wikimania2017wiki. This will help future 
scholarship applicants get a feeling of what the reviewers are looking for.
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Successful scholarship applications

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Thank you very much Deryck,
I'd suggest to add a section to 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars for example, 
where all such applications could be linked so that they won't get lost in the 
wikimaniawiki pages. It could also be helpful for future reviewers to see what 
applications were successful the years before, hence could be linked on 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars/Reviewer%27s_guide
 as well. What do you think?

Best,Martin


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 Betreff: [Wikimania-l] Successful scholarship applications
   
It's good that we're discussing the hurdle for someone to get their first 
scholarship to participate in Wikimania. In addition to the suggestions in the 
other thread, I'd like to lead an initiative to help future applicants who want 
their first-ever Wikimania scholarship.
As a successful Wikimania 2017 scholarship applicant, I'm publishing on-wiki 
all my answers to the scholarship application form, except personal 
information:https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Deryck_Chan/Scholarship_application
I encourage all other successful scholarship applicants to do the same. If you 
kept a draft of your application form, redact any personally identifiable 
information and publish it on wikimania2017wiki. This will help future 
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Re: [Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarships to attend Wikimania

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Hi,
transparency on the selection can only work when also the application texts are 
public because we have many very active Wikimedians who are not very clear 
about what they ever did or actually do, how this is relevant to Wikimania and 
if they are able to and want to share this at Wikimania and back in their local 
communities afterwards. However, if only the results were published, there 
could be no useful discussion between the committee and others without 
information from the application texts.
But when applications are public, it would make absolutely no sense to have a 
committee for the selection because every decision by the committe could be 
easily be debated. When the expertise of the committee is questioned, people 
would be hesitant to participate as already described in this thread. Hence, 
only a public selection done by the community as a replacement for the 
committee would make sense.
When the community would decide on the applications, we had to define who would 
be part of that community: who's eligible to vote on these? should the votes be 
public? would large discussions be allowed? etc. As we have lots of experience 
with public elections, we can also easily name the disadvantages of these: 
Popularity contests for only those people who can stand public criticism, 
sometimes by few very loud destructive people or even enemy groups, on 
everything they every did. Tons of people would be refrain from applying at 
all, something we strongy have to face at the moment with elections for 
adminship or other committees as pointed out by Risker.
Of course, we had transparency as a result and more public discussions around 
the selection, but we would have no safe space for applicants at all (also in 
terms of sensitive data like personal living conditions and anonymity). I see 
no third working model besides these and my preference would clearly be the 
committee. But if you like, you can, of course, seek consensus on the other 
model. I will raise my concerns there as pointed out here.
Best,Martin/DerHexer(long-time scholarship committee member and co-organizer)
  Von: Jonathan Cardy <werespielchequ...@gmail.com>
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Risker is right.
You can't publish such a table this year because it would break the promises 
made to applicants who were declined.
 You could start a discussion on meta, and make a proposal to publish such data 
for future Wikimanias. I'd hope you wouldn't get consensus, but if you did we 
could then monitor the effect on the 2018 Wikimania. If the requirement to 
publish details on unsuccessful applicants as well as successful ones was 
deterring a significant proportion of applicants, or deterring certain types of 
applicants such as applicants from particular countries, then I'd hope 2019 
would revert to the obviously superior system of not publicly listing the 
people who applied for scholarships but were declined. I do appreciate that in 
the future historians studying Wikipedia would really appreciate this data, and 
I can see the point of putting it in a sealed archive and publishing after all 
concerned have probably died. I'm not sure I see the point in publishing it 
now, if people are concerned about fairness then get someone you trust to run 
for the scholarship committee.

Regards
WereSpielChequers

On 19 Apr 2017, at 04:14, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote:


I would like the Wikimedia Foundation NOT to do that.  Our user privacy is to 
be respected.  People who applied for scholarships had every reason to expect 
that the WMF would not publish their names if they were not awarded one, for 
example. Nobody who applies is guaranteed a WMF scholarship; however, several 
other organizations actively provide scholarships to community members who did 
not receive a WMF scholarship.  Transparency does not require putting users 
into embarrassing or awkward situations, and many users who applied for 
scholarships may not have done so if they were told that the names and details 
of their application would be published.   The scholarship committee is made up 
largely of volunteers, and they don't deserve the inevitable brickbats that 
would be thrown their way if particularly vocal members of the community 
disagreed with their decisions. And it's a given that just about every member 
of the community will disagree with one or more decision made by the committee. 
 So no, please don't publish any details of any application, or how any 
individual candidate was assessed.  That's not transparency.  

Risker/Anne

On 18 April 2017 at 22:51, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja <pavan...@vishvakannada.com> wrote:

Hello, I would like WMF to make the list of applicants, their contributions, 
the weightage used for each kind of contribution and the final list of 
scholar

[Wikimania-l] Deadline for Wikimania Scholarships is 20 February

[DerHexer]

Hi all,

Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2017 which is being held in Montréal, 
Canada on August 9–13, 2017 are now being accepted. Applications are open until 
Monday, 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full 
scholarship will cover the cost of an individual’s round-trip travel, shared 
accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia 
Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and 
shared accommodation.

Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection 
criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, 
who will determine which applications are successful.
To learn more about Wikimania 2017 scholarships, please visit: 
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: 
https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply

It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the 
Scholarships page and the associated FAQ ( 
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before submitting 
an application.

If you have any questions, please contact:

or leave a message at:
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships

Please help us spread the word!

Best regards,
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[Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2016 scholarship applications open

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Hi all,Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esino 
Lario, Italy on June 22–27, 2016 are now being accepted. Applications are open 
until Saturday, January 09 2016 23:59 UTC.Applicants will be able to apply for 
a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an 
individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference 
registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial 
scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared 
accommodation.Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process 
and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the 
Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To 
learn more about Wikimania 2016 scholarships, please 
visit:https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/ScholarshipsTo apply for a 
scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form 
on:https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/applyIt is highly recommended that 
applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated 
FAQ ( https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before 
submitting an application.If you have any questions, please 
contact:wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.orgor leave a message 
at:https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:ScholarshipsPlease help us 
spread the word!Best regards,for the Scholarship 
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Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2016 scholarship applications open

[DerHexer]

Your client formatted them automatically, what many other clients don't. Have a 
look at the original 
mails:https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2015-December/007113.html
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2015-December/007114.html
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2015-December/007115.html

Cheers,Martin
 
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 An: Wikimania general list (open subscription) 
 
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 Gesendet: 7:26 Mittwoch, 9.Dezember 2015
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​for me they are normal too 
Mardetanha 
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Leon Liesener  
wrote:



May I ask what the issue is? All three mails look completely normal to me.
Regards,Leon
Op 8 dec. 2015 om 22:32 heeft Martin Rulsch  het 
volgende geschreven:


Third try … get mailman fixed please.

Hi all,

Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esino Lario, 
Italy on June 22–27, 2016 are now being accepted. Applications are open until 
Saturday, January 09 2016 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full 
scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared 
accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia 
Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and 
shared accommodation.

Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection 
criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, 
who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about 
Wikimania 2016 scholarships, please visit:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on:
https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply

It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the 
Scholarships page and the associated FAQ ( 
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before submitting 
an application.

If you have any questions, please contact:
wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org
or leave a message at:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships

Please help us spread the word!

Best regards,
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[Wikimania-l] Wikimania Scholarship committee and ambassadors

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Dear Wikimaniacs, Thank you very much for all the many applications for the 
Scholarship committee for Wikimania 2016. We are happy to present the following 
committee members: * David Richfield (South Africa, languages: en, af, de-3, 
nl-2)* Dsvyas (India, languages: gu, en-4, hi-3)* Eugene Alvin Villar 
(Philippines, languages: tl, en)* GastelEtzwane (Switzerland, languages: fr, 
en, de-2)* Mel 23 (Argentina, languages: es, en-4)* Mardetanha (Iran, 
languages: fa, az, en-3, tr-2)* Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (USA, languages: 
en)* Ruslik0 (Russia, languages: ru, en-3)* Venus Lui (Hong Kong, languages: 
zh, zh-yue, en)* Federico Leva (Italy, languages: it, en-3, “Scholarships 
working group chair”)* Martin Rulsch (Germany, languages: de, en-3, es-2, 
“Scholarships working group deputy chair”) Assisted by:* one Wikimania 2017 
non-voting observer tbd* Ellie Young (WMF Conference Coordinator)* Sati Houston 
(WMF Staff) Additionally, around a dozen users offered their help with 
preparations of the scholarship applications, required translations, and 
communications as Scholarship ambassadors. We invite more people to volunteer. 
Please contact us on domande.wikima...@wikimedia.it when you are interested in 
this function. We appreciate your help! Find more information on 
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship_committee . 
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[Wikimania-l] Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee

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Dear Wikimaniacs,we are now calling for a scholarship review committee.This 
year, we additionally want a scholarship ambassador for each major geography or 
language, including a representative from each entity which pays for additional 
scholarships; the ambassadors will be committee observers.The scholarship 
review committee is an important and diverse group of volunteers who help to 
run the scholarship program in accordance with the pillars of this Wikimania. 
We encourage people from all Wikimedia wikis to apply for this position so that 
the committee can handle applications in many different languages.The main 
duties of the committee members prior to Wikimania 2016 are:   
   - Participation in periodic online meetings with scholarships program 
manager and other committee members.
   - Review and edit communications material (e.g. Scholarship wiki, 
application questions).
   - Assistance in determination of scholarship applicant requirements.
   - Assurance of due consideration and speedy response time to Wikimania 
scholarship applications in multiple languages.
   - Work with the local team.
For further information please visit m:Wikimania/Scholarships/Tasks (the 
committee will also be polishing this page).We are looking for Wikimedians from 
all over the world, who are:   
   - fluent in written English and have good communication skills, or can name 
local community member(s)/ambassadors who help them with English translations.
   - discreet and able to handle confidential applicant information, and 
objectively assess candidates.
   - willing to review scholarship applications in late 2015/early 2016.
   - having either or both:  
  - previously attended Wikimania.
  - strong knowledge of the cross-project Wikimedia community.

You will be working remotely. While we hope that scholarship review committee 
members will enjoy Wikimania 2016 by giving significant input to it, the local 
team cannot guarantee financial support for the committee members' travel 
expenses since scholarship review committee members may not apply for a 
scholarship themselves.If you're interested in serving on the scholarship 
reviewing committee and/or as scholarship ambassador, please send us an email 
at domande.wikima...@wikimedia.it. If you have any questions, please don't 
hesitate to contact us.Deadline to apply is Sunday, November 15, 2015. The 
local team will contact all candidates and publish the list of scholarship 
committee members right afterwards. Please help with translations on 
wm2016:Scholarship committee.Proposed timeline   
   - Nov 1–Nov 15: Call for Scholarship Committee
   - Nov 16–Dec 6: Preparations of the Scholarship Committee
   - Dec 6–Jan 9: Submission time
Thanks,
Federico Leva and Martin Rulsch
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