Hi Isaac, I mentioned the chapter scholarships, because they are distributed /on top of/ those distributed by the scholarships of the WMF. This is one of the reasons why the global north gets a lower percentage.
I don't know if there /are/ formulae for distribution on a lower level than global north/global south. Maybe the country is less important than what the applicants bring to the conference, and what they expect to learn there. My point is, this is all guesswork - until we have actual data and more information. Lodewijk On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 11:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lodewijk, > > You might be right but I don't see where it was published that > scholarships are actually distributed through chapters. Even if that's the > case, did Turkey, Central America, South America, Mexico, and the Middle > East have multiple chapters? Why did Wikimedia ZA got one full and one > partial scholarships? In what ratio were the scholarship shared? What is > the distribution formulae? Sincerely, the sharing formulae remain a mystery > to me. > > Best, > > Isaac > > > > > > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. > ------------------------------ > *From: * Lodewijk <[email protected]> > *Sender: * [email protected] > *Date: *Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:08:01 +0100 > *To: *<[email protected]>; Wikimania general list (open > subscription)<[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [Wikimania-l] Breakdown of attribution for scholarships > > Hi Isaac, > running such statistics is always a bit tricky. You make lots of > assumptions. One being that the number of serious applications is > distributed in a certain way. As I understand it, the quality of the > application also plays a role, which can definitely impact distribution > between countries. Fact is, that there is right now simply not enough > information to draw conclusions. > > Also please note that many many scholarships are actually distributed > through chapters - which gives even an odder distribution across countries, > letting applicants in some countries benefit over the fact that there is an > active office in their country that can run a budget of sufficient size. > Some chapters try to compensate for that by also allowing applicants from a > selection of other countries (like Poland does). So for a real analysis, > one should include all these too. > > Lodewijk > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> My understanding of Wikimania Scholarship program is that Full >> scholarships are subject to quotas, while there is usually no geographical >> or linguistic limit to partial scholarships. >> However, final approval for Full Scholarships is based on the applicant's >> home country, each applicant will be categorized as either a Global North >> or Global South applicant, with the total number of scholarships >> distributed between the Global North and Global South being set at 25% and >> 75% respectively. >> >> The Global South includes Asia (with the exception of Japan, Hong Kong, >> Macau, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan), Turkey, Central America, South >> America, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East (with the exception of >> Israel). If 124 scholarship was awarded, and 75% is expected to be awarded >> for global south, it means, 93 Wikimedians are expected to get the >> scholarship from these region. Since global south consists of Turkey, >> Central America, South America, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East, then >> no fewer than 15 Wikimedians are expected to get scholarship from Africa. >> Unless I'm missing something. If only 4 Wikimedians got scholarship from >> Africa, where are the 89 scholarships? >> >> Warmest regards, >> >> Olatunde Isaac. >> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Nkansah Rexford <[email protected]> >> Sender: "Wikimania-l" <[email protected]>Date: >> Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:28:48 >> To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)< >> [email protected]> >> Reply-To: "Wikimania general list \(open subscription\)" >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Breakdown of attribution for scholarships >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> > >
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