Yes it was a shame; I was hoping to go but I not allowed, sadly, to travel to Israel. Another editor I know also had similar difficulties.
I wonder how much this affected numbers going? Tom On 23 July 2011 21:23, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > It doesn't look like there is much of a UK contingent going to > Wikimania - we didn't even make the top 5 countries list. There's also > no mention of WMUK sponsoring anyone despite there being £10k in the > budget for Wikimania sponsorship. Could someone on the board let us > know what that money is being spent on? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Harel Cain <[email protected]> > Date: 23 July 2011 20:45 > Subject: [Wikimania-l] Some statistics about Wikimania 2011 > To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" > <[email protected]> > Cc: Jessie Wild <[email protected]> > > > Hi al, > > Some statistics about Wikimania 2011: > > * We expect upwards of 470 confirmed attendees. The exact number is > difficult to tell, but all those we consider confirmed are paid for > and have never cancelled. > * Our confirmed attendees hail from 56 different countries. The > highest participation is from Israel (26%), United States (16%), > Germany (9.6%), Netherlands (4.7%) and India (4.3%). > * 22% percent of participants are female. That's a wonderful number, > considering the research finding that only about 13% of editors are > women. > * About 1150 people submitted a scholarship application, 450 made it > to the second round of filtering. About 80 full scholarships and about > 60 partial scholarships were awarded by the Wikimedia Foundation. > Wikimedia Deutschland gave out 16 scholarships, WM Italia 8, WM France > about 7 (?), WM Austria about 5, WM Russia 3, WMCH 2. The average age > of scholarship applicant was about 31, the median age about 27. > * About 11% of participants are vegetarian or vegan. > > See you all soon in Haifa! > > > Harel Cain > Wikimania 2011 local team > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
_______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
