Interesting thoughts. I received a WMF Wikimania scholarship in 2017. WMF's
travel agent didn't redact the prices when they sent me the flight tickets
and accommodation that they gave me. So I could calculate the exact price
tag of my scholarship (flight price + accommodation price + registration
price).
Is this a useful quantity to know? Yes - it does give some meat to one's
gratitude, and it makes for a good argument for those of us academics who
are eligible for multiple sources of funding ("hey, last time WMF sponsored
me CA$1400 to go to Wikimania, so I'm a worthy applicant of this
university's €500 travel award this year" etc). But I wouldn't place a
burden on WMF to calculate this figure in cases where the amount isn't
obvious, and we certainly shouldn't ask anyone to calculate the value of
the award until the travel and accommodation have been purchased.
--Deryck
On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, 10:11 Rehman Abubakr, <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was a former Wikimania scholarship recipient. To put it briefly, the
> Wikimania experience was something that I deeply value and will forever
> cherish. Somewhat sadly though, it is only after quite some years after
> Wikimania that I actually realised the value of the scholarship award (in
> monetary terms), that too with loose estimates done by myself purely out of
> curiosity.
>
> Would it make sense to include the approximate total monetary value of the
> scholarship award (airfare, lodging, insurance, logistics, etc) within the
> scholarship award emails to the recipients? I feel this would give much
> deserving weight in the award itself, as I'm sure many of us isn't aware of
> the actual amount of resources that is put in a given person's award.
>
>
> Yours truly,
>
>
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