On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Jessie Wild <[email protected]> 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 receive a scholarship from WMF without having
> contributions on wiki. The committee also tries to look at someone's
> contributions in relation to his/her local-wiki context. One specific
> example of this is a former scholar from the Kyrgyz Wikipedia. On first
> glance, it looked like her aggregate edit count was low, but on further
> digging the committee realized she had only been editing for a year, and
> was already a top 5 contributor on that wiki!
>
>
Just so I understand, are you saying that scholarship applicants are rated
based on a score, and that this score is primarily derived from edit count?
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