Dear Ellie Young
Thank you for this information. Aside, the parameter used for your calculation which is the no of eligible applicants from Africa. I am of the opinion that your parameter only window dress the effect of the selection to show that the selection is fair to Africa. However, if you used "Total Number of Scholarships awarded against the number of African selected" you will noticed that we only have 3%. Though, we may not have the voice to push through our points, but the fact remains the selection is just unfair to the world second largest continent. http://www.africapedia.com/-SIZE-OF-AFRICA-COMPARED-TO-OTHER-CONTINENTS. Though, you mentioned that "Geography regions are "not" the emphasis of the program'. In my opinion, this is the missing link in the organisation of the event year in year out. No wonder, some continents are fast developing while others are struggling. I Let's take a clue... Warmest Olaniyan Olushola Director, WUGN Treasurer, FOSSFA MD, Olbims Consulting Phone: +2348154876844 Email: olaniyanshol...@gmail.com|olaniyansh...@yahoo.com|treasu...@fossfa.net User page: Olaniyan Olushola Facebook: Olaniyan Shola Twitter :Olaniyan73 Original Message From: african-wikimedians-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 8:25 PM To: african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Reply To: african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 34 Send African-Wikimedians mailing list submissions to african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to african-wikimedians-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at african-wikimedians-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of African-Wikimedians digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Wikimania (Ellie Young) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:40:27 -0800 From: Ellie Young <eyo...@wikimedia.org> To: Isla Haddow Flood <i...@wikiloveswomen.org> Cc: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Wikimania Message-ID: <ca+cwzg5vkcm6e9kzytydlyru6i79x81adhar7syanydxs-h...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Isla, I am in the process of putting up information from the scholarship committee onto the wiki and will respond to the other thread on wikimania-l soon. 124 Scholarships were awarded. Of the 400 scholarships that passed into Phase 2 of the review, 20 were African applicants passed Phase 2. 4 of those got scholarships, so by my calculations that's 20% of the eligible African applicants. Geographic regions are *not* the emphasis of the program. You might want to take this up directly with the Scholarship Committee if you have ideas for changes to the program in the future? Ellie Young WMF Events Manager on behalf of the Scholarship Committee On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Isla Haddow Flood <i...@wikiloveswomen.org> wrote: > Okay - so - of 170 potential full and partial scholarships offered by the > WMF, Africa got 4. > > FOUR. > > that is 0.02% of what was on offer. > > Mexico I could understand was difficult to access. BUT you couldn’t get > closer to Africa than Italy, if you tried. > > That is just not acceptable. > > > On 11 Mar 2016, at 3:50 PM, Douglas Scott <douglas.i.sc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I got a partial scholarship which means I wont have to pay to be at the > conference venue but I will have to pay for my own flight. > > On 11 March 2016 at 15:43, Ian Gilfillan <wikimedi...@greenman.co.za> > wrote: > >> I applied, also didn't get. >> >> On 11/03/2016 14:46, Isla Haddow Flood wrote: >> >> Hello All >> >> Just want to do a quick head count to see who got a scholarship to attend >> Wikimania. Please just let us know who got one, and who didn’t. >> >> thanks! >> Isla >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> African-Wikimedians mailing list >> African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >> >> > > > -- > Douglas Ian Scott > 司道格 > Skype: douglas0scott > South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > > *Isla Haddow-Flood* > Project Manager: WikiAfrica > Username: Islahaddow > > > -- Ellie Young Events Manager Wikimedia Foundation eyo...@wikimedia.org c. 510 701 8649 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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