On 29.05.2018 20:33, praveenp wrote: > I haven't seen any attempt to share the knowledge and wisdom acquired > from Wikimania to community through mailing list or wiki. Users > including me generally feel that community is being mocked on.
Hi to all, without being too original here, and following praveenp comments - would be good to encourage recipients of WMF scholarship to organize some type of Wikimania follow-up activities back in their groups or chapters. I do believe that most of them are doing it anyway without any requirements from WMF, but if majority would do it - we could have something as a ”permanent Wikimania” unfolding globally for a couple of months after the official Wikimania. regards, /gheorghe > Hi, > > As I have said last year, this is not a complaint that I didn't get > selected. This is not personal. This is about same persons receiving > Wikimania scholarship year after year repeatedly. I am just using > familiar user names from a familiar community, who got many repeated > scholarships. > > Even after I argued that none of these 'permanent scholarship > receivers' sharing anything to community, I haven't seen any attempt > to share the knowledge and wisdom acquired from Wikimania to community > through mailing list or wiki. Users including me generally feel that > community is being mocked on. > > I tried to keep myself away from local discussion about this, but > injustice is so clear. And nobody is ready to discuss it openly, most > probably because of the 'incompetency shaming' in almost all replies. > > ~user:Praveenp > > > On Tuesday 29 May 2018 11:19 PM, Lodewijk wrote: > Given the context of the previous email you sent, I am assuming this > is more a complaint that you didn't get selected than that the other > two got selected. > > Similarly to the previous time you tried to have this discussion - I > feel uncomfortable to make this about individuals. > > Is there a way to give rejected applicants more feedback on which > factors play a main role, so that they can learn from it, especially > if there is something they could improve in their application. I would > add two sidenotes here though: it should only be provided on request > (no need to rub people's noses into something unnecessarily) and it > seems only viable at a level that can be easily extracted from the > process (high level). > > Perhaps someone who knows the scholarship committee's work intimately > could comment. > > Best, > Lodewijk > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:21 AM, praveenp <me.prav...@gmail.com > <mailto:me.prav...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > Congratulation to all the selection committee who break the > tradition[1] of selecting one of the Malayalam communities two > permanent Wikimania attendees, by selecting both of them. > > Congratulation to User:Netha Hussain & User:viswaprabha also. > > [1] "Granting Scholarship to same persons every year" thread, > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2017-May/008026.html > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2017-May/008026.html> > > ~User:Praveenp > > > On Tuesday 15 May 2018 11:19 PM, Ellie Young wrote: > * > > All, > > > Here's an update on various activities pertaining to the > upcomingWikimania '18 which is being held July 18-22 in Cape Town, > South Africa. > > WMF Scholarship Program: 135 people were offered and subsequently > accepteda full or partial scholarship to attend. The awardees are > listed by usernames and the list is posted > here:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars>Submissions: > The program committee has just finished its review anddeliberations. > Rejections and acceptance emails have gone out in the past week. > > 95% of the accepted submissions are listed at: > > > https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program > <https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program> > > > Plenaries and other sessions will be listed soon and a scheduled > program in June. > > Registration and accommodation information is now up for everyone > at:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration<https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration>https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodation<https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodation>If > you are a scholarship or other WMF funded attendee (staff, > contractor,board, etc), please wait until you hear from the WMF with > your registrationand accommodation instructions.If you have any > questions about the conference, please emailwikimania-info at > wikimedia.org<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l>Please > spread the word!!!!On behalf of the Wikimania '18 Organizing Team > > Ellie YoungEvents Manager, Wikimedia > Foundation<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l> > > * _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
