On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Philippe Beaudette <[email protected] > wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I too am concerned that the current scholarship process tends to polarize >> the community, and too often simply rewards long-time community members, or >> those who are connected to large movement entities, with free travel: >> rather than increasing the diversity of new voices and faces at global >> events. > > > Do we have any statistics to back up this claim? > I share a concern; it would be welcome to find it unwarranted. The public statistics I know of are these reports: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/2013 That level of detail does not address either of the two stated concerns: that some recipients are not so active, and that there is limited rotation. It would be welcome to see a count of the # of recipients who attended Wikimania for the first time; the # who received a travel scholarship for the first time; the # who were active contributors and to which {clusters of} projects. I also find Nemo's version of transparency compelling: In cases where scholarships are presented as an honor, the recipients are named, which also seems in the wiki-spirit. SJ
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