I made a page about the scholarships status, opportunities and challenges, by
collecting hints form the proposals by Nemo and Martin, the comments i read
here, and from recommendations on talk pages.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/SWOT_2005-2014_and_goals_for_2015
The
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
I too am concerned that the current scholarship process tends to polarize
the community, and too often simply rewards long-time community
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
As is evident in the selection criteria the scholarship committee puts
forth, contributions on our wiki projects is the key component to receiving
a scholarship. The scores are so close, it is really difficult
(impossible?) to
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
As is evident in the selection criteria the scholarship committee puts
forth, contributions on our wiki projects is the key component to receiving
a
Hello, today I and Martin have polished the scholarship vision/program
for our Wikimania 2015 bid:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Esino_Lario/Scholarships.
Considering a background and aiming for a long-term impact on the
Wikimedia mission, we propose the following principles: Transparency;
Out of curiosity, why is this bid specific? I think it would be much more
valuable if we can have this discussion independent of the bid. These
values and goals should be similar independent of the location. Even the
members of the committee should be mostly independent of the location I
think.
Lodewijk, 12/01/2014 17:53:
Out of curiosity, why is this bid specific?
It's explained in the crucial for the success of this Wikimania plan
passage and in several other places in the bid, where it's pointed out
that Wikimania needs to be looked at as a whole.
I think it would be much
I like this vision very much. Like Lodewijk, I suggest the scholarships
piece should not be bid specific.
I've been thinking a great deal about scholarships, travel, and attempts to
build community via jet fuel. Some thoughts off the top of my head for the
new year:
I don't understand why the
On 13/01/2014 03:35, Samuel Klein wrote:
I don't understand why the current scholarship criteria make no mention
of need.
Are they meant to be for newcomers, or for the same community members
each year?
Per my reply on [[wm2014:Talk:Scholarships]], there's simply no way for
the reviewers or
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:
On 13/01/2014 03:35, Samuel Klein wrote:
I don't understand why the current scholarship criteria make no mention
of need.
Are they meant to be for newcomers, or for the same community members
each year?
Per my reply on
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