[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimania Updates - Scholarships and Sessions

2021-05-11 Thread Gnangarra
The COT has identified 3 broad areas for scholarship support, Connectivity, soft support, and community support. Like the Wikicite link that Mike mentioned: we want to make it as light on bureaucracy as possible. We want to tailor it to the needs of as many people as possible with a priority for e

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimania Updates - Scholarships and Sessions

2021-05-11 Thread Florence Devouard
Child care is likely to be another answer ? Flo Le 11/05/2021 à 21:26, Mohamed ElGohary a écrit : Connectivity for starters, and owning devices that are capable of enabling a good summit experience. Not all volunteers are privileged to contribute to a virtual event in a comfortable way. The I

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to participate in Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021

2021-05-11 Thread ceslause
Hello everyone We are inviting the Wikimedia Community User Groups and chapters to participate in Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021, a global contest scheduled to run from July 1st through August 31, 2021: Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, and then add a sui

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to participate in Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021

2021-05-11 Thread ceslause
Hello everyone We are inviting the Wikimedia Community User Group to participate in Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021, a global contest scheduled to run from July first through August 31, 2021: Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimania Updates - Scholarships and Sessions

2021-05-11 Thread Mike Peel
It's worth looking at the Wikicite e-scholarship model: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/e-scholarship Thanks, Mike On 11/5/21 20:49:21, Winnie Kabinte wrote: Thanks for your input Mohamed, you're right. Those are actually some of the areas the scholarship should help facilitate. We s

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimania Updates - Scholarships and Sessions

2021-05-11 Thread Winnie Kabinte
Thanks for your input Mohamed, you're right. Those are actually some of the areas the scholarship should help facilitate. We shall update you more on this soon enough. On Tue, 11 May 2021, 22:28 Mohamed ElGohary, wrote: > Connectivity for starters, and owning devices that are capable of enabl

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimania Updates - Scholarships and Sessions

2021-05-11 Thread Mohamed ElGohary
Connectivity for starters, and owning devices that are capable of enabling a good summit experience. Not all volunteers are privileged to contribute to a virtual event in a comfortable way. The Internet can be expensive for video calls for many countries / regions in Africa and Asia. ᐧ On Tue, May

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimania Updates - Scholarships and Sessions

2021-05-11 Thread Winnie Kabinte
Dear Esteban, I understand your concern. Allow me to clarify that even though this year's Wikimania is virtual, we plan to have increased participation. The scholarship program will be repurposed to facilitate participation in the virtual event. We shall provide more information and guidance on t

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimania Updates - Scholarships and Sessions

2021-05-11 Thread Esteban Zarate
I don't understand what is the purpose of the scholarship this year, there isn't to travel and no physical venue to host Wikimania, what is the purpose of the scholarship? El mar, 11 de may. de 2021 a la(s) 15:50, Winnie Kabinte (kabi...@gmail.com) escribió: > Dear Wikimedia Community Members, >

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania Updates - Scholarships and Sessions

2021-05-11 Thread Winnie Kabinte
Dear Wikimedia Community Members, We’re so excited to share some updates with you around Wikimania 2021! We’ve been hard at work, getting things running and putting things in place and realized we have so much we’d like to share with you. Thank you for your flexibility and understanding, as we nav